When you surf, do you see random words or phrases with double underlines? When you move your mouse over them, they display an advertisement related to the underlined words.
This feature, called in-text advertising, turns appropriate words in the browser window into links to the advertiser’s website. These sites work with various companies to link to its advertisers. The browsers support these types of ads and they are created in such a way that most ad-blockers won’t block them. You can try to ignore them by not moving your mouse over them and if you happen to click on one, it will take you away from the current page. Some advertisors will allow you to disable the ads but you’ll have to go company-by-company. To do so, follow these steps.
Step 1
Point to the double-underlined words, but **don’t click**! You’ll see an advertisement open in a small window near your cursor.
Step 2
If the advertisement is from Vibrant, in the upper right corner of the box, click the question mark button. A new browser window will open pointing to the Vibrant in-text advertising page. If you’re using WOT (Web Of Trust), you’ll get a warning about the site. Continue anyway.
Step 3
Point to the Disable tab. Click “Click here to disable.” It will let you know that to disable, you’ll need to have cookies activated and if you ever clean out your browser cookies, you’ll have to redo these steps.
Step 4
The page should update to now say “Click here to enable.”
Step 5
Close the browser window.
I’ve looked at other advertisors to see how to disable their ads and haven’t found any thing yet. I’ll continue to search though, short of installing a 3rd party program to block these ads.
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THNAK GOD FOR YOUR DIRECTIONS! i HATED THOSE INSIDIOUS ADS!!
As did I. They were always getting in the way of my reading.
i had the same problem that i solved today. i run chrome so i went to the chrome settings and then to tools and then to extensions. the culprit was an app called visualbee. i found that when i disabled it or even deleted it that when i restarted my browser it was back up and running again so i did a search of my computer for all visualbee files and folders. then i deleted each file manually. now i no longer have this problem and i’ve learned a little more about malware.