LJ intrusion

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1. Yes I see it on my desktop too.
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   P.S. And after posting this I see the damned thing has inserted itself here too!
3. I’m seeing it on your two entries but not on Ulaca’s. On laptop.
4. No, I don’t get any of that. Windows 10 on a desktop.

   But when I clicked on ‘3 comments’ I got ‘RECENT POSTS FROM THIS COMMUNITY and 6 posts; the below gives an idea of what I got:

   Recent Posts from This Community

   Times Quick Cryptic 1660 by Wurm

   My solving time was 9 minutes for all but 1ac, which after a further 5 I abandoned hope and resorted to aids as I knew it was a word I would never…
   Times 27721 – Hello Honky Tonks!

   A very pleasant start to the week of crosswords, with a little bit for everyone, especially, perhaps, the astronomer. A particularly good two-word…
   Mephisto 3124 – One for the books

   After about half an hour, with only a third of the grid filled in, I realized I’d have to bring in Chambers fairly early on. There is some…
   Sunday Times Cryptic No 4911 by Robert Price — DIVERSIONARY tactics

   Nothing very exotic here, though I wasn’t sure when working this that I’d ever seen, let alone eaten, a DRUPE (turns out this is a kind…
   Jumbo 1448

   This was a bit of a struggle for me – not really on the compiler’s wavelength I think, but nothing unfair. A couple of cleverly…
   Times Cryptic No 27714 – Saturday, 11 July 2020. All porkers watered and ready …

   … and I too flew through this one, until I reached my LOI, 4dn, which took a bit of an alphabet hunt. I won’t be surprised to see…

   1. Thanks Will, but I think that’s exactly what I’m seeing as illustrated in the image I posted at the start of this thread. It’s all very confusing and I’m really mad about this intrusion in something that has worked perfectly well for years.
5. I’ve been getting these for a few weeks on both the laptop and my tablet. A bit of an intrusion, although when I wanted to find a recent blog, it was quicker than scrolling down. Only works for the last few though. Still not as yucky as some of the ads the algorithms send me, just because I’m not quite as young as I used to be (bunions and poor posture now, neither of which trouble me)! Actually, Jack, when I last moaned about the ads, you gave me some advice on how to manage them without paying for the full package, which I forgot to follow up at the time – would you mind explaining again, please?

   On edit: Don’t worry – I’ve used my brain and had a quick look through my messages on LJ, and have found the relevant advice. I’ll follow up. thanks 😀

   Edited at 2020-07-20 11:25 am (UTC)

   1. I may have seen them on my tablet before today but everything looks a bit different there so I didn’t pay much attention. But my PC is my principal source of access to websites generally and I have everything set up the way I want it as far as possible, so anything that disrupts this on a site I spend so much time on feels like a violation of my home territory.
      1. Most ad-blocking extensions allow you to zap individual sections on a page. I use uBlock Origin in Firefox and getting rid of this intrusion was really easy:

         1. Right-click anywhere on the page and select ‘Block element…’
         2. Click the ‘Pick’ button and move the mouse pointer to the top of the new section, ensuring the whole section is highlighted and click to lock in the selection.
         3. Click the ‘Create’ button to finish the task.

         The procedure may vary slightly with different browser/ad-block combinations, but you should be able to figure it out.

6. Just the earwax ad here
   1. Thanks for your input. Actually this evening I found a means of removing the 6 links as shown in my image above – at least I thought I had. They have gone when viewed on my PC but still present on my tablet. It’s very odd. I’m going to monitor the situation over the next few days and maybe consult with other bloggers to see if I can make sense of it.
7. Spooky or glitchy, it seems to happen increasingly across my devices: laptop, smartphone and (less so) smart tv. Part paranoia, part normal digital dysfunction and part user error but part something else?

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