Chapter 5. Browser Annoyances

For most people, the Web is the Internet. And the window into the Web is your browser. And a very annoying window it can be.

Head to your favorite site. Oops! There are six pop-up windows that must be swatted down. Go to another sitean animated ad the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger covers the page. Great. Still another site has jumping, singing ads accompanied by eardrum-bending music. Oh wait...that e-commerce site just hijacked your browser, opening window after window after window.

These and other annoyances galore face every web surfer: from pop-ups to web sites that don't print properly to cookies that report your movements to nefarious marketers who want to send you even more ads!

In this chapter, you'll learn how to deal with all these and many other annoyances. You'll find out how to kill pop-up and pop-under ads, and how to flatten the most annoying ads of all timeanimated Flash ads. In fact, you'll learn how to turn the Internet into an ad-free zone by killing all ads.