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Third party commercials is replacing/hijacking into my TED videos. Mac

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I am seeing Pizzahut and Minions commercials being played after watching TedTalks. I have confirmed with TED, those commercials are not theirs. And advised me to look into the plug-ins.

My tiny list of plug-ins looked fine, only Quicktime had a very long list of sublist. Could that be the problem? I am on Mac OS 10.

I noticed seeing the same commercials on Ad spaces on websites too.

The commercials are loud and disruptive to my online experience and any help would be appreciated!

I am seeing Pizzahut and Minions commercials being played after watching TedTalks. I have confirmed with TED, those commercials are not theirs. And advised me to look into the plug-ins. My tiny list of plug-ins looked fine, only Quicktime had a very long list of sublist. Could that be the problem? I am on Mac OS 10. I noticed seeing the same commercials on Ad spaces on websites too. The commercials are loud and disruptive to my online experience and any help would be appreciated!

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sushi82 said

I am seeing Pizzahut and Minions commercials being played after watching TedTalks. I have confirmed with TED, those commercials are not theirs. And advised me to look into the plug-ins. My tiny list of plug-ins looked fine, only Quicktime had a very long list of sublist. Could that be the problem? I am on Mac OS 10. I noticed seeing the same commercials on Ad spaces on websites too. The commercials are loud and disruptive to my online experience and any help would be appreciated!

There are some ad-blocker add-ons on firefox you can use to block those adds like this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/fire.../adblock-plus/

This will block the ads and let you surf more conviniently. Add this add-on to your firefox. Let us Know if it worked! thanks

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sushi82 said

I am seeing Pizzahut and Minions commercials being played after watching TedTalks. I have confirmed with TED, those commercials are not theirs. And advised me to look into the plug-ins. My tiny list of plug-ins looked fine, only Quicktime had a very long list of sublist. Could that be the problem? I am on Mac OS 10. I noticed seeing the same commercials on Ad spaces on websites too. The commercials are loud and disruptive to my online experience and any help would be appreciated!

There are some ad-blocker add-ons on firefox you can use to block those adds like this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/fire.../adblock-plus/

This will block the ads and let you surf more conviniently. Add this add-on to your firefox. Let us Know if it worked! thanks

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Works perfectly! Thanks so much for this quick and easy solution! I was so annoyed now very satisfied :)