The kind that keeps popping up no matter what you do. But first we need to talk about a different kind of ad– the kind that takes over your browser, changing your search engine and home page. I’ll explain it all shortly, with links to everything you need. Or the cleaned-up one, without ads? I think I know the answer.Ĭleaning things up is easy. If they’re made with Adobe Flash they’re even worse, as Flash ads shorten battery life, make your Mac run hot, and sometimes make it crash. Plus, sometimes they cover up what you want to see, forcing you to click to make them go away, and sometimes they’re sneaky and invisible, taking you to websites you didn’t intend to visit. Worse than that, they slow things down, because they have to load (that is, they have to come to your Mac from a server, over your internet connection). No one likes ads.Īds distract from the information we are looking for when we visit websites in the first place.
There are roughly a billion active websites, and whichever ones you go to, I am positive that you aren’t going there for the ads. This speeds up your web browsing because you’re downloading less material. Here’s how you remove ads and adware from web pages with a simple plug-in.
