PLEASE, no more globs of earwax? Please???

The LVA site is infested with popup ads, which I suppose generate badly needed revenue for LVA, but is there any way to control the content?? At all??

I keep getting pics of someone holding up a glob of earwax stuck on a Q-tip or lovingly cradled in someone's palm. I try not to look, but the ads are designed to stick themselves in front of your face. Also, many features of the website--such as forum posting--stop working until you click away the ad.

Maybe LVA should use a different forced-ad company that doesn't stick gross, disgusting pictures in your face? Just a thought.

Adblockplus works fine in my Edge browser. I NEVER get pop ups, Kevin.

The pop ups appear at the bottom of my screen, every page about 1.5 inches high.  I'm now pretty much conditioned to click the x without giving them a thought.  But, they reappear every page...

Some of them appear on the right side, less often on the left. I usually click the x, because either the image is horrid and ugly (as I reported), or sometimes, it's moving, which is obviously a distraction (and that's the whole point, of course).

I blot them out when I'm posting on the forum in particular because yet another of this site's infuriating glitches is that when the pop-up is doing its thing, nothing you type actually gets entered in the comment box.

I don't care if it makes money for the site. These ads are a constant annoyance that makes it near-impossible to even access, let alone enjoy, the site's content. Surely there's a less crass and intrusive way for these ear wax people (or whoever) to peddle their shit.

(As an aside, I have a standing policy that when any product is advertised in an annoying and obtrusive way, I make a resolution to NOT buy that product under any circumstances and even, if it is a product I normally buy, to stop buying it.)

Crickets from the LVA staff

Thank you for your helpful and insightful comment, which adds so much to the discussion.

This is not a unique problem to LVA. It's everywhere, and much worse on many sites that are much bigger than LVA. Adverstising as the only or primary source of income for internet content hasn't proven to be the successful business model it was once hoped it would be. Internet ads, unlike print ads, are easy to ignore unless these intrusive and annoying techniques you're objecting to are employed.

On most of the biggest news sites like The Daily Beast or Poltico or CNN, I have to click away muliple obstructions before accessing the site's content. First, a screen urges me to subscribe to the site, and when I click that away, a video will begin playing. As I scroll, additional videos (with audio) may start to play. Often the "X" to  close windows is so small (intentionally?) that I can't find it, or my aim is off by one or two millimeters causing me to inadvertently click through to the sponsor. Again, this isn't an LVA problem. It's ubiquitous.

I don't subscribe to LVA. If I did, I'd have to also subscribe to dozens of other sites I visit even more frequently and would run-up a monthly bill in the hundreds of dollars.

So I don't object to the ads, even the annoying ones. It's the bargain I accept for having the content of the world's largest news gathering organizations as well as small, specialized, narrowcasting sites like LVA and forums and movies and more delivered to me for free without my having to get out of bed.

If you had told me when I was 20 or 30 that this would have been possible, I would have thought you were out of your mind, but here we are and I am constantly amazed and delighted by it and grateful for it, albeit with irritating ads.

I'm simultaneously appalled and amused by the fact that when I clicked the link to see your reply, the first thing I saw was another earwax ad. Mmmmm, that's just the sort of thing one wants to see before dinner!!

Kevin, there are 4 free adblockes available to download. What OS and what browser?

  A free one comes with Edge. Or Opera.

I use Firefox (I want to slow Google's and Microsoft's world domination), and while they have a proprietary ad blocker, it seems not to work worth a piddly poop.

Oh well, it's earwax now, but it used to be pictures of Trump.