How to browse adfree without dA premium membership

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How to browse adfree without being a premium member


Hello dear watchers (and strangers),
I've reached +100 watchers! Thank you so much! And also thank you much for viewing, faving and commenting my works! It means a lot to me! So I decided to gift you with something but it's just a journal (no wallpaper sorry).
However, I hope the contents of this entry make your life and day a little brighter!

As you can read the title I want to show you how to browse adfree without having premium membership. I'm not joking and no hack for premium membership needed. And I'm speaking from experiences, and I'm willing to share it (well to be honest I didn't want to but yeah :D).
Since the day I joined devianART I read how several users complained about the annoying ads and that's one of the reason why they want to have a premium membership. Or I saw screencaps from deviantArt for Kiriban contests (also with adverts). But somehow there weren't any ads while I'll browsed, I kept wondering why there weren't any ads at my pages. And then I found out the reason. Yeah.

So we want this:



to become this:
 
 

Notice the red circles? I'm still a normal deviant member without premium membership (I have premium membership now yay!), however, the adverts disappeared! Either I edited those pics (I'm not that kind of a person to fool someone... and my photomanipulation skills are bad...) or it was with lots of magic...
(oh and please ignore my screencap of my profile it looks like a mess...)



Anyway the right solution to this is:

Browser add-on Adblock


which is available for these internet browsers:

:iconfirefoxplz:
Firefox

:icongooglechromeplz:
Google Chrome

:iconoperaplz:
Opera

:iconsafariplz:
Safari

:iconinternetexplorerplz:
Internet Explorer

Click on the links or go to Google and type "adblock" and your browser (f.e. "adblock opera") so you cant get this add-on with your respective language! The links above are the english add-ons!



Install them, and after the installation and the restart a new window or tab will appear where you set the preferences.

Mozilla Firefox

Click on Add filter subcription and Add and choose the lists, it also depends where are you living and/or which sites are you going to. (sometimes I go to websites in Chinese language and other asian sites so that's why I also added the ChinaList)
Recommend ones are EasyList and Fanboy's List


Google Chrome

Click on Filter lists and you should see something similar like this:
Click on the button (see the red circle) or set your own preferences.

I don't know how it works on other browsers. I only have Firefox and Google Chrome. You shall try it yourself out. And do you know what this means? You not only browse adfree on deviantart, you'll also be able to browse adfree on other sites!

Also a new icon will appear on your add-on bar. When not so you can also go to the browser add-ons preferences if you want to change something.

Furthermore you can manually block items if you want. Right click on the image or hyperlink and the elements get blocked. Also on flash files, videos, audio player, etc. something on the top right will appear if you hover over it. Then click and block
(nothing against Hunger Games, I'm currently playing this game lol, the only thing is that I suck in this game and my screen resolution is way too small for this game ;3;)


Happy adfree browsing :meow:
I hope that I could help you with this. If not my efforts, screencaps, uploads, etc. were a waste lol XD

There's also another similar add-on called Catblock. I don't know what it is but from what I read that this add-one is similar to the normal one except that the adverts are replaced with cat pictures! I don't know how the pictures look like but you can try it out if you want! Just mention it to you guys! Maybe you will see something like this:







well not this...


PS.: Screencaps weren't meant for advertising, just only for showing examples~
PPS.:deviantART gets money for having ads on its sites. So if all the users on dA don't see the ads anymore, will dA get less money? Just asking...
PPPS.: Could you tell me if this helped? I like to help people^^
PPPPS.: also you should thank you my brother who installed this on my browsers before I got my netbook^^
and yeah because of him I could share this^^
he's also on dA somewhere but I won't tell you~ XD
PPPPPS.: The journal skin is so beautiful ♥
PPPPPPS.: Writing with Sta.sh Writer for the 1st time... it's interesting...
PPPPPPPS.: Oh god my English I hope everyone could understand me...
PPPPPPPPS.: What's the difference between My Journal and Journal and in which category should I submit it? *confused*
PPPPPPPPPS.: Post scriptum for the win.
PPPPPPPPPPS.: Is anyone reading this....?

EDIT

This won't work when you're browsing with your mobile unless you install Android Firefox with the Addblock add-on. Other mobile browser like Dolphin, Opera and other free browsers I tried so far haven't a compatible add-on for this (yet). Though I must say that I don't favor Android Firefox, I didn't make good experiences with this app. For iPad, iPod & iPhone I don't know if this works but I think it doesn't work...


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Shining-NinjaGurl's avatar
Umm, this is probably going to sound very stupid, but how do you add those gifs in your journal. i saw that you use sta.sh writer, but I dont understand how to put in the gifs..
Could you please help me?
Oh and your tips really helped!! Thanks for that!!!