I am near computer illiterate but Ryan 182 made a superb suggestion elsewhere that bears repeating. I have XP which I gather is the most used Windows platform:

1. Go to Find - search - and search for "hosts"

2. Click on that file when found, and open that file using notepad

3. When in there, paste these 2 lines to the very end of what comes up:

127.0.0.1 a.tribalfusion.com
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com

Click "save" then "exit" and re-start computer and no ad of ANY kind appears on FT. No banners, no skyscrapers, no google anything either. ^ ^ ^

No need to load any programs, which when I did that last time, it froze/crashed my set-up.

If I can do it anyone can. Shame it had to come to this, but the new absurb ads inside posts were driving me nuts.

FT'ers are very savvy, and I have not seen one post anywhere, joyous about this new intrusion, the last in a long line of them.

If lots of folks do this, neither the ad agency, nor google nor Randy wins, as the number of folks exposed to the ads shrinks. Oh well.