I like ADBLOCK PLUS-I never see an ad, anywhere. It's wonderful.

The only places that demand that I take the ad blocker down are pretty much places I don't want to visit, anyway (e.g. Forbes). I look at those, if there's a link someone has sent me that is germane, in an incognito window.

I remember, for a while there, people were complaining about ads here at DU featuring a giant purple vibrator and Ann Coulter book flogging (not in the same ad, mind you--hee hee)! That was several years ago, though, during the Bush regime!!!

I disabled my ad blocker to have a look at it, simply because there was so much agita and discontent surrounding the image.

It was also a very intense shade of purple, too!

I saw the 'banner ad' and it was impossible to miss--quite the spectacle!

Damn, all the things I miss by having a star.

yes INDEED

I have been a member of DU since 2005. I donated for years. In 2008, I became a widow and then shortly after, lost my job.
Since, at my age, jobs were scarce, I did volunteer work for a local charity. I remained there for 5 years.

I live on Social Security only. When your time comes, I hope things are better but please note that at about $13,000 a year, there are no extra dollars. Not for DU or anything else.

To those of you for whom money is no problem, Kudos. For the rest of us, it is a crisis.
Sometimes wonder if I will eat or if I will feed my cat.
I am trying to keep my house. Taxes take a huge portion of my very limited finds. Then there are things like utilities and insurances.
What a big party I have with all the extra dollars.
Maybe I will win the lottery---except have no money to buy a ticket.

Walk in my shoes or those of others before casting stones.

...'Self-destructing cookies'? While I would also recommend some other addons to go with it, they're not all quite as user-friendly as SSC is. This one will, as it's name implies, destroy any cookie after a period of time (mine are every 30 seconds, for instance) except for those you specifically tell it not to.

If you think you can handle more (ie, you've got some computer literacy) I'd suggest UBlock Origin and NoScript. NS is simple (it's seriously set it and forget it) but UBlock requires some work. As there are vids and other things about it, I'll leave that to you to investigate.

Hope this can help you some!

This does not clear them every 30 seconds but every time you close the browser. If that is not enough use chrome incognito mode and no history whatsoever is saved.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2846020/how-to-automatically-delete-your-cookies-every-time-you-close-your-browser.html