Has anyone noticed just recently that there are loads of adverts that keep popping up whilst using Google Chrome browser. Stuart has put an Adblocker on Firefox and it works OK but Chrome kills them.
We can watch YouTube in Firefox with no adverts appearing whatsoever but the same page in Chrome is plagued with adverts. It’s doing Stuart’s head in (mine is already done in!!)
In Chrome when you are halfway down the page the ads appear - doesn’t matter what you’re looking at - and says ‘you may be interested in’ and we’ve got no interest whatsoever. 90% of these adverts are in bad taste - near naked women.
We don’t seem to have the problem with Firefox so is there anyone who uses Tor browser (called The Onion) or Librewolf as an alternative to Chrome.
Another thing (of many) that has recently started annoying me about Chrome is that it insists on showing local results. For example I google Aires de camping car en Alsace, and it proudly announces that it is showing results local to me which is obviously not what I want.
My computer is not set to show my position and I cannot see a setting to change in Chrome. Is there one?
I know I should switch browser but I have tried one or two others and not got on with them and ended up going back to Chrome.
VPN works for that but it’s a bit extreme. Brave is current best solution and I hope they survive. Firefox started out that way and was largely subverted (depending where and on what device). Opera seems to be going same way slowly. And there’s always Tor browser but I have never got on with it.
It’s not Chrome that creates the ads, it’s the webpages you visit. Chrome is just not blocking them as it’s not set up correctly. I use Chrome and Brave and Firefox and I get no ads on any of them. As @Nunthewiser says, Ublock Origin works a treat. The problem I suppose is that Chrome by default is not set up to block ads, but it’s easy to make it do so.
Please keep the tips coming, all very helpful for those not naturally in this environment. Just setting things up at home after old PC began glitching so before failure I am retiring it.
Google’s new manifest is to remove adblockers where it can. Some adblocking extensions continue to work though, uBlockOrigin still works for me, but for how long remains to be seen. At some stage, Google will try and remove any and all ad-blocking extensions.
“Google search is the cornerstone of the company’s lucrative ad business; Chrome is the second stone. It is the most popular browser in the world, boasting a market share of almost two-thirds of people using the internet. It is an absolute vacuum of browsing data and a key gateway to Google search and therefore ads shown via Google search. Its ads business precedes everything else the company does in profit and importance, ergo Chrome is the second-most vital part of Google. The ads business suffers a dire blow without Chrome, and Google shrinks. That is the justice department’s goal.”
