In article <7qs4kepr5214si3od1t8qct4cis4jcnf7h@4ax.com>,
SL <SerpentLord@Evil.Incarn8> wrote:
> It got to where they were doing like
> I said before though. They were leading you to spam or hijackers.
I haven't seen any of that as long as I'm using various ad-blocking and
script-blocking extensions *as appropriate*, which unfortunately means
needing to switch those on and off occasionally as conditions dictate.
(For instance, if you're going to log in on a web board, of course you
need to have javascript and cookies enabled for the duration. But the
ad-blocking can still be active.) I know there are many huge
differences between the configurations you and I are using: different
computer, operating system, browser, and extension set. So it's a
classic case of "YMMV". I'm lucky to have a configuration that works
great and doesn't bug me with much of that garbage. (It's not on a
Wintel machine, so I can't offer any direct help.)
Here's one example. Sometimes I do something that requires scripting
enabled temporarily, and then I forget to switch that off afterward.
Well, when I do that on the otherwise excellent "wipergirls" :-) site
without being logged in, then whenever I point at an image in a picture
set, I get a stupid pop-up window (converted to a tab by my browser)
with some spam. (If you're not logged in, then you're fair game for
spammers ... that's the general attitude.) So I immediately close
that, switch off scripting with one click, re-load the vg.to page that
I'm looking at (which jettisons all of its scripts), and from that
point
I can browse normally, and rip picture sets, without being bugged by
*any* of that garbage. Hooray.
So yeah, I know the problem you're talking about, but there are ways
around it, some of them pretty easy for us to use. There are also
several browsers to choose from (Mozilla-based or not, Chromium-based
or not, etc.), and various extensions available for those. One browser
that I haven't tried (it's not available for the systems I use) is
Pale Moon, and I tentatively recommend it because apparently it's a
Firefox lookalike and (this is very unusual!) it can use the old
XUL-based FF extensions that work with Firefox version 56 and earlier,
including "Imagehost Grabber" (IHG), which is probably the best
image-downloading extension ever. For details, you could read or
search a VEF discussion thread titled "Image Host Grabber") in the Help
forum ... which I see now is available without logging in to VEF, and
that's good as far as it goes. However, you'll also see some spam and
pop-ups if you load that page without logging in and if your browser
isn't blocking that crap, which just goes to show what we're up
against. :-[ Here it is, near the end of the very long thread, with a
mention of Pale Moon and the problem of XUL extensions in Firefox
versions after 56:
<http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t317039-p26-image-host-grabber.html>
So the general solution is: "Use the ad-blockers, Luke!" If one that
you try isn't good enough, find a better one. There are many.
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