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Ad-blockers may also be suppressing content you want to see. By design, adblockers
block images, animations, inline frames, and other content served
up by certain sites, but your ad-blocker might be blocking more than just
the ads. Many sites also pull non-ad content from these same servers, sometimes
for economic or technical reasons, but primarily in an attempt to
thwart ad-blockers. Either way, turn off your ad-blocking software to see
whether that solves the problem.
Finally, bad proxy settings can break all sorts of things in web sites. If you??™re
surfing from work, your employer may require you to go through a proxy
server; turn it off and see whether the problem stops. Likewise, if you??™re
surfing from home and you??™re using a proxy server (as described in ???Surf
Anonymously,??? later in this chapter), you may have to turn it off to view
sites reliably. In Internet Explorer, open the Tools drop-down, select Internet
Options, choose the Connections tab, and click the LAN Settings button
to configure your proxy server. In Firefox, go to Tools ??? Options, choose the
General category, and click Connection Settings. Or, in SeaMonkey, go to
Edit ??? Preferences and choose the Advanced ??? Proxies category.
Improve Any Web Site
Web sites aren??™t as untouchable as they may seem. In the early days of the
Web, if you frequented a web site with some annoying quirks or features
that didn??™t quite work right, you just had to grit your teeth and live with it.
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