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Yes... that can happen, but as far as I know there is not any other solution.
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I have something like 5 or 6 blockers. I have disabled them though on some sites because, well, web sites also live from advertisement, and do not necessarily choose what they get to display.
I have no ad block on mobile devices, since ad blocking means installing weird alternate browser app - no add-in on android.
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Their web site, their quality control. If they allow "strange" ads, they understand I block them.
I never ever seen "strange" ads in ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) .
In android, if you have a Samsung phone you have multiple adblockers that work with their browser, if it's not a Samsung, you can always install firefox (not that weird) or something like that that can use an ad blocker.
It's a pity and sad having to spend time and efforts in those things because internet is full of "high quality" ads.
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The only way to get rid of ads is with an adblocker. Ads will always be with us so if I have to see ads, I'd much rather see targeted ads of something I might actually want rather than untargeted ones. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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scummy advertisers are willing to pay more per ad because they live and die by the number of clicks they get. In contrast, your local car dealership knows that >90% of the population isn't looking for a car now, many of the ones doing so already sort of know what they want and have ruled out a significant fraction of makes already, and in any event people who want something specific probably are going to go to the closest dealership selling it regardless of which ones are running ads at the moment. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Switch browsers to one that blocks this crap by default. I figured out the real reason Google panned the new MS-Edge when it was released is because it blocks third party cookies and most advertising out of the figurative box.
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Don't switch back, instead install Ghostery and uBlock Origin and make sure to disallow everything that is 3rd party, then on each site you wish to visit open up for the features you wish to use apart from those delivered by that site directly. Some of these, i.e gstatic.com you may wish to allow on all sites as that contains oftentimes necessary scripts for the functionality of that site. Never let them bully you into accepting anything non functional, even if that means that you can no longer use their site. If they make it so or too difficult to opt out of everything with them, simply cancel your membership and move on. That is the only way these spammers will ever learn. Most important, never allow googletagmanager.com as that is the very source of their spyware, if you allow that, a whole host of spyware will attempt to install spyware cookies on your machine, so called "tracking cookies".
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Rage wrote: I would expect anybody confronted to this to switch on again the targeted advertisement, which is why I tend to think this may be intended...
...aaand there we have it. You will be tracked, slave, whether you like it or not. When they make you turn it back on, they won.
This is also why I never log onto a browser. A site might need to know who I am, but a browser, IMO, has no business asking me to log into some "profile".
As JSOP mentioned, the solution is Pi-Hole.
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between pi-hole at home and a hosts file that redirects 90% of the ads I don't see much and that is just the way I like it.
At work it sometimes sucks. Because we don't have a pi-hole server.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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@JSOP IIRC you also had a hosts file setup - what made you move to pi-hole ?
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Using Pi-hole keeps me from having to periodically update the hosts file on almost a dozen machines. Pi-hole updates automatically, as well.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Just pulled out my orange cherry-tomato bushes. Ending a 9 weeks period I didn't bought any cherry tomatoes at all, eating only home grown... I had around one and half kilogram of tomatoes every week during this period from only 6 bushes!!!
I left with about two and a half green tomatoes I will pickle...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Did you remember to back them up so you can restore them next year?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Why? Just regrow them from seeds. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You'll regret that when your garden gets a virus - or ransomware! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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So yes, he did back them up.
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I am not sure about tomatoes, but cucumbers are frequently hybrids with sterile seeds. I suspect that goes for a lot of tomatoes as well.
Some food plants are not suitable for growing from seeds - apples are notorious, but there are others as well. If you dig a hole in the ground for MacIntosh (seed), it won't grow a tree of MacIntoshes  (The stories of Johnny Appleseed giving away thousands of appleseeds for people to grow their own fruit trees are misunderstandings of the work he did.)
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My backgarden is becoming some sort of jungle since we planted bamboo, at the garden center they promised it was a small staying variety, but it is 3 meters high by now!
Ah well, some hedge trimming does wonders
Big bamboo - YouTube[^]
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A 3 meter bamboo IS small... the large are going for ten times of that 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Fried green tomatoes, try em you will love em.
update: haven't had coffee yet, cherry maters is to small to fry
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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I do fry almost any... Eggplant, zucchini, green tomatoes... as long it is firm enough for that I ate it fried...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Mike Hankey wrote: Fried green tomatoes,
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) - IMDb[^] is nice too
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I have found there is a disadvantage to feeding you dogs veggies, they now consider the vegie patch a smorgasbord and will happily scoff down the new tomatoes and cucumbers. Getting a pumpkin with teeth marks in it is disappointing.
I started a new patch with kitchen compost, we not have 15 pumpkin plants taking over. 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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for (;;)
{
Console.WriteLine("this, and while(true) loops, are an abomination ... as evil as using goto");
}but, writing this was fun 
suggested reading: [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Microsoft's CodeDOM renderer for C# spits out loops like that. I've also seen Microsoft code that does it this way in the reference source for the .NET BCL.
As far as the while, I prefer:
var done = false;
while(!done) {
}
But every C# dev should know how to write while(true) { }
Real programmers use butterflies
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