How to Disable Ad-blocker?

HOW TO DISABLE YOUR ADBLOCKER

GOOGLE CHROME

Using AdBlock Plus

  • Click the Adblock Plus icon at the top right corner of your browser. (icon with a stop sign with the letters “ABP” in the center.). A drop-down menu will appear.
  • Click ‘Block Ads On’ toggle switch to turn off the adblocker on TechPosts.org
  • The color of the icon should change from red to grey, indicating that the site is approved to show ads.
  • Refresh/reload the web page.

Using Chrome Adblock extension

  • Click the Adblock icon at top right of browser. (It looks like a stop sign with the image of a raised hand in its center.) A drop-down menu will appear.
  • Select Don’t run on pages on this domain.
  • The page will be refreshed automatically, and the icon’s color should change from red to green with an image of the thumbs up indicating that the TechPosts.org is approved to show ads.

Using Ghostery

  • Select the blue Ghostery icon, located on the top right corner of your browser. A drop-down menu will appear.
  • Select Whitelist Site.
  • You will see a confirmation message letting you know the site has been whitelisted.
  • Refresh/reload the web page.
  • The color of the Ghostery icon should change from blue to grey indicating that the site is approved to show ads.

FIREFOX

Using AdBlock Plus

  • Select the Adblock Plus icon, located on the top right corner of your browser. (It looks like a stop sign with the letters “ABP” in the center.) A drop-down menu will appear.
  • Click ‘Block Ads On’ toggle switch to turn off the adblocker on TechPosts.org
  • The color of the icon should change from red to grey, indicating that the site is approved to show ads.
  • Refresh/reload the web page.

Using Ghostery

  • Click the blue Ghostery icon, located on the top right corner of your browser. A drop-down menu will appear.
  • Select Whitelist Site.
  • You will see a confirmation message letting you know the site has been whitelisted.
  • Refresh/reload the web page.
  • The color of the Ghostery icon should change from blue to grey indicating that the site is approved to show ads.

*Important: Firefox “Private Window” runs its own adblocker. You will receive our adblock detection message on a private window, even if you are not running any adblockers. In this instance, you will need to open history.com in a standard Firefox window instead of a private one.

INTERNET EXPLORER

Using AdBlock Plus

  • Select the Adblock Plus icon, located on on the bottom right-hand side of your browser. (It looks like a stop sign with the letters “ABP” in the center.)
  • A drop-down menu will appear.
  • Select Disable on history.com
  • The text should change to “Disabled on this site.”
  • Refresh/reload the web page.
  • The color of the icon should change from red to grey, indicating that the site is approved to show ads.

DEVICES WITH APPLE IOS9 AND ABOVE

  • Open the Settingsapp (typically located on the device’s main screen).
  • Scroll down and select
  • From Safari’s General menu, select Content Blockers.
  • The text should change to Disabled on this site.
  • You will see your blocker enabled. Slide the button to the left to disable.
  • Return to your Safari browser and refresh the web page.