<p>U of New Haven here too</p>
<p>You can get rid of all the ads using adblock plus (with Firefox).</p>
<p>I use firefox - where do I find adblock?</p>
<p>This is the screen capture of the ad as it comes up on my computer, although this morning I'm just getting a UNH ad.</p>
<p>Flickr:</a> bfgl3hx's Photostream
You can enlarge the photo if you click on it.</p>
<p>University of New Haven! <yawn></yawn></p>
<p>UNH here too..</p>
<p>Mine is back to UNH, but it was jockstraps again earlier this morning! Keep checking folks...</p>
<p>jym, you're so easily amused. :)</p>
<p>I was disappointed my daughter did not choose U New Hampshire (U New Haven did not offer her major).</p>
<p>I always wanted a sweatshirt that said "UNH". ;)</p>
<p>The jockstraps are back!!</p>
<p>Yes, vioadad-- I guess I am easily amused ;) but right now I'll take just about anything to distract myself from watching the weather channel and starting to think about plan B. I even made the <em>fool</em> mistake of wandering into some of the political threads. What was I thinking??!?!?! Boy oh boy people can be nasty and confrontational in there! So, for now I shall amuse myself with pictures of fur covered jockstraps...</p>
<p>My daughter leaves in less than 24 hours. I thought we would have no problems because all her friends are back at school save one. Oh no. She has to hang with the one last remaining soul until midnight and then left for her house-sitting job…for some extra cash. She came back at 10:00 am this morning and I was very hopeful. But no, her best friend is back in town from Tulane due to Gustav ( #*&! Hurricane). Grrr! When is this girl going to pack? When? She leaves at 8:00 am. Help me lord!</p>
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<p>Get adblock plus from the Mozilla add-ons site: <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865%5B/url%5D">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865</a></p>
<p>Once ABP is installed, you will need to choose a filter subscription that will automatically wipe out 90% of the ads.</p>
<p>If any ads slip through, right click on the image and choose "adblock image." This works for single recurring ads.</p>
<p>To wipe out whole families of CC ads that the filter subscription misses, you'll need to enter "<a href="http://ads.collegeconfidential.com/*">http://ads.collegeconfidential.com/*</a>"</p>
<p>BTW, the solicitation to help a nice Jewish couple could come from spyware residing on your computer looking for people who visit certain websites. Get Spybot search and destroy to dump all spyware. (I assume you already have up to date antivirus and firewall software.)</p>
<p>Computer makers should put all this stuff on the computers from the get-go. If, for some perverse reason, you want the ads, then you should be able to switch. But I'm sure that's a small, small percentage of the universe.</p>
<p>Why make everyone go through all this?? I just wanna plug the damn thing in the wall.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, if it was that easy, advertisers would not be very eager to throw money at web sites like this one.</p>
<p>And someone will always write code to bypass it.</p>
<p>Haven't followed this thread for several days, since D has been back at school for 2 weeks. And just look at all the fun stuff I've been missing! Sad to say, I never get any fun ads -- right now the one at the top of the page is for "Back to school shopping." We're on Macs, and actually don't ever have much of a problem w/ "off color" ads.</p>
<p>As far as move in, what a difference a year or 2 makes! This time (D is a junior) we literally helped D haul stuff up to her room, dumped it, and left.</p>
<p>OK, S2 (a freshman)who I thought would never pack two weeks ago , came home Friday afternoon. For the weekend he brought home a pop-up hamper with a surprisingly small amount of dirty laundry and his backpack containing his laptop. I washed the clothes for him (as he was gone literally all day to a football game..the only resaon he came home) on Sat. </p>
<p>On Sunday a.m., he threw the clothes back in the hamper, grabbed his backpack and fired up the truck for the trip back to school. Funny how they can get along with a really small amt. of stuff when the packing is left up to them.</p>
<p>ACK!! Now I have Macy's underwear ads!! (male and female undergerments). Well, it is better that watching film of Gustav hit NOLA, I suppose.</p>
<p>Amazing. She did pack 3 bags in 2 hours. Only 1 was over the weight limit by 2 pounds. I took a bottle of vitamins and a 7-pack of wash clothes out and we were OK. I wonder that those 2 items weighed 2 pounds or the bag guy was just being nice to us. I watched her leave this time with such sadness. Last year when she was just a freshman and leaving to travel close to 2000 miles away. I was distracted by my critically ill parents. Their impending deaths loomed over last fall, so I was quite numb about my last child leaving. Now I feel it all, the tears, the quietness of the house, the empty bedroom. I’m so so sad….I can’t tell you.</p>
<p>Look at the RA's "name" in post 304 and post 320, and you'll see why some of us were getting the skanky jockstrap ad. The ad generator-thingy reads the words on the page and generates ads accordingly. There was a whole thread earlier this year on llamas. We all wrote about llamas, and miraculously we all got ads for alpacas!</p>
<p>Great detective work, Lafalum84! I keep getting the boring University of New Haven ads or back to school shopping. Now I know what I have to write to enliven my day. ;)</p>