This website has no popups or commercial advertising.
DailyVisits.com --- Tips
A: Website Safety and Security
The McAfee SiteAdvisor Report on DailyVisits.com is good. This website has been tested by the impartial McAfee SiteAdvisor and shows no spam, no bad downloads, no cookies, no links to unsafe sites, no popups, no adware, no spyware, no viruses, no annoyances of any kind, and has their best rating which is "green". Great! Nice to know.
To see the McAfee SiteAdvisor Report for any website, go to www.siteadvisor.com and type in the name of the website. It'll show you their safety and security findings, including any dangerous downloads, adware, spyware, spam, viruses, scams, or other nasty things.
www.siteadvisor.com also has a free program available for downloading that automatically informs you of the safety of any site you visit. A color-coded button in the corner of the browser displays the safety level of the site. Clicking on the button opens the report page from "SiteAdvisor.com" with the full safety information, as well as user comments praising or complaining about the website you're visiting. I use their free program fulltime and find it very helpful, useful, and even interesting.
B: Free Anti-Popup Programs
See windowsmarketplace.com for a list of free anti-popup programs with descriptions. Also has links to product reviews, compatibility requirements, software publisher's site and other useful information.
You can test your popup blocker atwww.popuptest.com.
They also have a list of anti-popup programs with their tested evaluation results.
After A) a good virus blocker & scanner and B) a separate good adware/malware blocker & scanner, I recommend the following software to my computer students and those who ask for my advice:
The Best:
I currently use Super Ad Blocker. It passes all of the tests and more. They let you try the full version for free for 15 days, so it's definitely worth trying out, even if it's just to compare with whatever you may presently be using, out of curiosity. It blocks over 99% of all advertising - not just popups.
The company has been around for 4 years (that I know of) and continually develops blocks for new types of ads as they appear online. So, it includes frequent updates. Setting it to not even download blocked items (ads and whatever) saves bandwidth, meaning that the pages you view load faster.
It blocks popups, pop-unders, advanced Flash and 'rich-media' ads, DHTML/fly-in & 'floating' ads, Windows Messenger ads, banner ads, webpage dialogs, sponsored/search ads, IM ads (from Yahoo, AOL, MSN, etc. Instant Messengers), and too many others to list here... Its purpose is to block all unwanted advertising online.
As if that weren't enough, the program has many other unexpected and unrelated useful features. Personally, I wouldn't want to be without it now. Rather than go on about how much I like it, and its other features (protective, clean-up, scanning, stats, security-related, etc.) you can read about it yourself on its website.
It's also fully customizable, so you can have it not block certain ads, not delete certain cookies you may want to keep, etc., from sites of your choice. Surfing online without any ads at all makes it more enjoyable. You can read more about it by clicking here. It's easy to uninstall too, just in case.
One of the best and most interesting recommendations for Super Ad Blocker comes from an evaluation by spywareguide.com. The article begins, "Every now and then we come across a product that really puts its us [sic] in an ethical quandry. We feel advertising is an important part of the Internet. These ads do help keep content free and pays the salaries of writers, researchers and support staff". It then acknowledges, "Advertising on the Internet today has become so intrusive and so distracting it is ruining the end- user's experience", and goes on about the negative aspects of online ads. It concludes, "In our opinion it is the only advertising blocker a person will ever need. (And I agree with that.)
I want to mention that I always prefer freeware programs, which I can almost always find by intensive searching and comparing. It takes something really special for me to pay for it. I have only 3 paid software programs on my computers. One of the 3 is the paid version of Super Ad Blocker. After trying it out, I was so pleasantly impressed by what it does that I got a lifetime subscription for it, which turns out to be very economical. (The other 2 paid software programs that I have are for top computer security and protection.)
C: Helpful Tips About This Website
This website is browser-friendly and user-friendly. It should display and function correctly with any web browser.
However, there are a couple of factors that you should be aware, some of which will affect the display and functionality of the pages on this site:
Cookies:
This website doesn't use cookies. It doesn't matter if your computer blocks cookies or not, because this site doesn't use them to track visitors or for anything else.
However,
Some of the sites I link to use cookies. On the Page For Free Daily Charitable And Humanitarian Donations for example, many of the sites listed there need to use cookies to check how many times per day a single visitor clicks to make a free donation. That's because some of those websites want to limit your free donations to one per day per site.
JavaScript:
The floating site menu on the left side of this page and all other pages on this website will not be visible if your browser has JavaScript disabled.
If that's the case, just use the regular links to navigate the pages of this website. No problem. Or enable JavaScript, if you prefer. Your choice.
All of the live newsfeed pages are scripted in JavaScript. The newsfeeds will not be visible unless your browser has JavaScript enabled.
Using Popup Blockers:
This site has no popups at all.
But...
All links to external sites ( including the links on the live newsfeeds ) are set to open in a new window. Some popup blockers will actually prevent a new window from opening when you click on these links to other websites. If you have that problem, you've probably already found a work-around. Otherwise, you could do one of the following:
- Open them in a new tab of the same window, if you use tabbed browsing. (Right click link, then left click option 'Open in New Tab'.)
- Use an "intelligent" popup killer, or a popup "filter" rather than a popup "blocker". See the above heading called "Free Anti-Popup Programs".
- You could turn off your popup blocker if it's the kind that's not "intelligent" enough to open a window when you click on a link. I'd get a better one if that happened to me.
- Copy the shortcut of the external link and paste it into a new (or the same) browser window.
- Set your popup blocker to accept popups from www.dailyvisits.com if you want. That wouldn't be a problem, since this site has no commercial popups, pop-unders, or any other kind of commercial ads.
I've set my domain name aFriend.ca to automatically take visitors to the "Page For Free Daily Charitable And Humanitarian Donations" here at www.DailyVisits.com/daily.html
At some future date (when I can afford top-quality hosting) I'll be moving the "Page For Free Daily Charitable And Humanitarian Donations" (and related content) to one of these 2 domains -- to be a completely separate and independent website.
After that, I'll be putting a lot of fresh, interesting content here at www.DailyVisits.com, a lot of which will be updated daily. The purpose will be to turn this into a website that will be worthy of "daily visits", by providing a variety of really interesting content.
I should mention though, that the use of these automatically forwarding domain names may not always be as dependable or reliable as using the real URLs because they rely on simple HTTP header redirects.
My Domain Names Available is a short list of what I think are the best domain names that I have -- that I don't have time to put a separate website on yet. Maybe some day. Hopefully. But right now I don't have the time to develop and run all of them myself. Any ideas? Offers? Partnerships? Trade/Barter? Suggestions? Comments? (Follow the links to find my contact information if you're interested.)
A: Website Safety and Security
The Best: