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How can I block the “Sign in with Google” prompt on websites? [duplicate]

On many websites that require login, those annoying Google login prompts appear: There are several tutorials on the Internet on how to avoid this, for example, this one on How-To Geek, which suggest ...
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Use AdBlock without being detected

Upon visiting a site today I was rewarded with Comic Sans. Behold it's glory: Source Needless to say I can finally understand why so many people loathe this font. However, this does bring up a ...
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Can a site detect if I use AdBlock in Firefox?

I recently visited (an official) website in search for an episode of a TV-show. The site popped an information dialog stating that I had to disable AdBlock to see the content. Is this at all possible ...
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ISP is inserting ads into web pages

My ISP is inserting ads into web pages randomly (it is like a popup in the bottom right side). I have tried different browsers but same thing happens. I know it is not caused by any virus because ads ...
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How to block Hot Network Questions in the sidebar of Stack Exchange network?

Operating system is Ubuntu 14. Firefox is 50.1.0 This is what I have tried: I restarted firefox after that. There was no effect. What is the way to block those hot questions on the sidebar?
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How to prevent my ISP from putting every website in a frame?

My ISP has a bad habit of putting every page I visit into an iframe so they can overlay it with their commercials etc.. (I'm guessing they are using a transparent proxy to do it) Is there an add-on ...
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How can I block ads in Internet Explorer?

I am looking for an ad blocker which works both in Internet Explorer 9 and all later versions. What options do I have? I would prefer a solution that works without installing any 3rd party DLLs (...
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Adblock Plus doesn't block Google ads. How to enable?

Recently I've noticed that Adblock Plus doesn't block Google ads anymore. The page is just full of ads. Here's a query for "SSL" with Adblock Plus turned on. I would like to not see Google ads in my ...
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Block contextual ads based on browser activity from Google

I have entered AliExpress site to buy something. Now I always get ads in YouTube and other sites; some ads advertising some underwear and so on. This is annoying. How can I block them?
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AdBlock rule for blocking facebook.com outside the facebook.com domain

from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3035418 So I wrote some filter rules in my filter file, than I uploaded it to my domain, it looks like this: [Adblock Plus 1.1] ||facebook.com^$domain=~...
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Adblock Chrome update frequency- it's letting some ads through

I use Adblock Plus [edit: originally wrote "pro"] for chrome, and occasionally I've noted that some ads will get through. Every time this has happened, updating the filters manually has fixed the ...
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how to block static ads

Is it possible to block ads that are not flash based. The ads that show up whenever you have flash block or ad blocker installed on your browser.
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How to make Google Search scriptless with NoScript/AdBlock?

How to configure AdBlock or NoScript to make Google Search scriptless, but not to break multitude of pages that use Google's scripts (like if I "forbid google.com" in NoScipt) @related https://...
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Adblocking jQuery

As a privacy-concerned user, I try to make sure that Google, Facebook and the like do not get informed of whatever page I visit through web bug like Google Analytics and the Facebook "I like" button. ...
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ad blocking host file, shared to all computers on local network

I currently update my local hosts file with advertising server domain names and direct them to nowhere. Well, almost nowhere. I point them to 127.0.0.1 and I don't have a web service running so it is ...
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Ad block plus not working

It seems as though Ad block plus has stopped working. I'm using Firefox 32.0.3 and Abp 2.6.4 and Element Hiding Helper 1.3 For example this page seems to have more ads than it should. Here's example ...
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How to block ad popups in web browser?

Current web browsers (firefox, chrome, ...) usually have built in popup blockers that prevent popups appearing without user interaction (click on link). In addition, there are multiple addons that ...
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