How do I block all the ads from LQ when I visit (using tor)?
I clicked something and I started seeing ads each time, never saw them before I clicked whatever I clicked.

There are a lot of sites that make money by showing ads.
I try to not visit those sites that are intrusive with the ads.

You can also use ad blockers or even use other tools to block certain sites or domains from your system. These work similarly to the parental controls in blocking data from those sites reaching your system.

My understanding is that, when you log in, you will no longer see the ads.

I pretty much stay logged in and can't remember when I last saw an ad.

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On just about any web site, if you have images turned off in the web browser, you won't/can't see adds. Also don't let scripts run on the page. The downside to that is not all elements on the page will work. Depends on the web site.

LQ has never needed scripts or images on to function. Not in the last 18 years anyway.

Without scripts/images on, you get a plain looking but functional page like this:
https://0x0.st/oqYc.jpg

To give LQ some revenue, open the page with scripts/images on every now and then, and click on a few adds.

And then...there is also python and friends that will automate that for you.

That's a terrible idea. (And probably doesn't work anyway.)


If one wants to give revenue to LQ, use the Donation link at the bottom of every page, or become a Contributing Member.

If one wants to block adverts (or indeed any content), on LQ or elsewhere, use uBlock Origin and/or a Pi-hole.

LQ currently requires Javascript in order to access the forums because LQ is using DDoS protection from Cloudflare.

LQ does not require JavaScript to access the forums unless your request is flagged by CloudFlare as requiring a CAPTCHA to be solved.

Nope. I always log in with javascript completely disabled.

That said, CF sometimes balks at apparently random input patterns, which requires me to either fix my text, or enable js to confirm that "I am human".
A simple <script> will do that.

I didn't realize that CF was only requiring JS for certain users. I am one of those users and i cannot access the forum from the links browser even when i set the UA to match Firefox. I cannot solve the CAPTCHA without JS.

No, it is not requiring it for "certain users", it is only for certain HTTP requests, irrespective of who the user is (or indeed whether there is a user at all).

As I noted in the thread you opened then never responded, you need to examine ALL headers to identify the differences.

But no need to take this thread off-topic; I will continue over there.