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Okay, I actually can't believe I forgot to blog about this a long time ago.

Naturally, you should all be using Firefox by now, and since you are, I'm going to tell you about a revolutionary new extension [people should really pay me for all the promotion I do :( ]

It's called AdBlock Plus.
It's a 30 second download, and a 10 second installation process.
Then a few extra clicks here and there, and you will never, ever, ever bump into another advertisement again. This extension blocks all of those annoying banners on the top of your page [like in hotmail], all of the ads down the side of the page [like news.com], and even all the text links and 'sponsored ads' on the right side of your google search results!

It just zaps them into non-existence.

Quick run-down:
1. Download the extension from here and folow installation prompts: http://adblockplus.org/en/installation
2. Go here and click 'subscribe' to the 1st, 2nd and 4th subscriptions. http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions What this will do is subscribe your new extension to pre-formed lists of almost every ad in existence, so every time your browser bumps into this ad, it knows to automatically block it.
3. Done!

Apart from a completely ad-free internet experience [which is unbelievably amazing], I love the fact that you don't get a fat 'BLOCKED' sign whenever an ad is blocked. Instead, it just isn't there and your content is rearranged so you don't have random free blocks of space. It looks totally natural.

Good luck. :D