{"id":237,"date":"2016-01-18T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T08:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2016-08-22T16:08:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T16:08:31","slug":"online-ads-how-to-protect-your-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/blog\/online-ads-how-to-protect-your-web-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Ads! How to Protect Your Web Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone hates <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advertising\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">online ads<\/a>. If you&#8217;re seeing extra ads on a website, your computer is probably infected with malware. Or one of your other browser extensions injects it on your web page.<\/p>\n<h2>Download only from trusted website<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s best to download only software from websites that have a green <strong>https<\/strong> protocol. Such as the Chrome web store, Firefox add-ons, Opera add-ons and the Safari extension web page. Do never trust a site with only <strong>http<\/strong>. They don&#8217;t care about your privacy and security. The best solution is to remove those extensions because they can secretly send your personal information to an online advertising company.<br \/>\nHere at Turn Off the Lights, we care about your privacy and security. That&#8217;s why this website has a green security lock icon. And our browser extension doesn&#8217;t inject any ads in websites such as Apple, YouTube, Wikipedia etc.<\/p>\n<h2>Remove Online Ads Extension<\/h2>\n<p>Most ads is coming from another browser extension that is installed on your computer. To remove it (in the Google Chrome web browser):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the options menu via the &#8220;menu&#8221; icon on the top right, and choose Settings.<\/li>\n<li>Open the Extensions panel and there is the list of extensions installed.<\/li>\n<li>Remove an Extension by clicking the Remove button next to an item.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Chrome Cleanup Tool<\/h2>\n<p>Can&#8217;t know what Chrome extension creates this problem in your Google Chrome web browser. Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/cleanup-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chrome Cleanup Tool<\/a> from Google. This software removes the unexpected ads you can&#8217;t get rid of, or otherwise changing your browsing experience. This tool is only available for Windows users.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all! Want a brief overview? Jayne will explain the solution again in this YouTube on how to fix this ads problem.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lT4SIJec_Kc?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you see other examples that you can document about online ads, please point them out in the comments section of this YouTube video.<br \/>\nAnd if you have any questions, please don&#8217;t hesitate to contact us on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/\">support page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone hates online ads. If you&#8217;re seeing extra ads on a website, your computer is probably infected with malware. Or one of your other browser extensions injects it on your web page. Download only from trusted website It&#8217;s best to download only software from websites that have a green https protocol. Such as the Chrome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-browser","post_format-post-format-video"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}