Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for June 12, 2020

Will you get what you want? That Depends.

And if you have sausage fingers or the keyboard is small it can be worse.

My issue is clicking on what I want as the page is almost loaded, the page shifts as it finishes loading and I’ve clicked on something else, often an ad.

And now you will get endless ads for the same sort of thing.

“Close this ad-X” Oops, missed.

Adblockers are your friend.

On some sites the ads come and go continually, and any text I’m looking at jumps around, becoming very hard to read.

Ad blocker is fine until you come across a site that tells you to disable your ad blocker. It is one of the last things to load and blanks out the rest of your screen. If you time it just right, you can reload the page, and before the “remove ad blocker” notice comes up, hit CTRL A, (copy all) then paste to notepad, at least I can read what I went there for.

Seriously… that very thing happened to me. I don’t know how they knew that I am in my 60s.

Everything stops while the advertisement I refuse to look at loads.

get Adblock to stop all ads. Pay by the honor system. 14 million adblock-users can’t be wrong.

The comic panel HUMAN CULL invited readers to send in their pet peeves, the artist created a panel from the idea submitted…today’s Brewster topic was one of my entries…..unfortunately HC is only reruns now….

Wait…you mean, I’m NOT the only person this happens to?

Some sites are so incredibly frustrating that you learn to avoid them. Click bait sites are the absolute worst.

There was a “trick” described in an article I read this morning that apparently can bypass many ads and even paywalls. Now that it’s known, it probably won’t work for very long. Simply add a period after the end of the domain name in the URL box (example “.com/content” becomes “.com./content”). I have tried it a couple of times on pages that were giving the content, but popped up a non-intrusive box about subscribing. After a reload with the period added, the box did not show up.

Now that ad is part of Brewster computer search history and he can look forward to getting email ads from every adult diaper company in the galaxy.

He wouldn’t mind so much but he already has a years supply.

“AND WE HAVE A WINNER!!”

He’s probably feeling pooped after all that…

Well, at least it’s for something useful to him …

Brewster is very childish, but…

And, for the Next 6 Years, you will get ten Spam e-mails a day offering you better prices on those diapers.

Delivered straight to your door in a plain brown box.