I have a very annoying advertising banner that slides up from the bottom of the screen each time I click on anything.Do any other members experience this,if so is there a way to disable it?

Hi Terry.

I don't have such banners or adverts popping up at all.
A very good tool, browser extension, that I've found out works well is Ghostery.
It's free for personal use, and it's customizeable to suit own preferences.

https://www.ghostery.com/ghostery-ad-blocker

In addition to Gunnar’s excellent choice for removing annoying ads, you can also use Ad Block Plus


https://adblockplus.org/


It is free. You can add this as a browser extension.

Do they interfere with cookies that recognize me at my sites?

Bernie

Not usually, however if there is something you want that is blocked, you can disable the extension for that page/site.

Bill

Yep I use Ad Block Plus also. A few sites won't load with Ad Block Plus running but it's a simple "allow" for those cases.

I haven't noticed any difference in cookies, or performance issues. I just checked and it has blocked 7 ads here on SZ

Did I mention it's free?

Thanks guys,I down loaded ad-blocker plus and it worked,

Not much of a problem on Apple. An occasional small drop down from the top or an easy to dismiss center page banner.

But let me remind everyone, it’s those banners that help SZ stay solvent. It seems such a small inconvenience, clicking it closed, for what it does to help provide this space for us to gather at. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water!