Solved - Google delayed popup annoyance.

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Maffu
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Solved - Google delayed popup annoyance.

Post by Maffu »

Hi, I've never really been bothered by Google's sponsored links as they are largely unintrusive.
However, recently they appear to have started using a different and very annoying technique of delaying them for a second or two.
You put in your search query and hit search. The results page appears and you go to click on the desired result and...
*POP*
Up pops Google's sponsored links, right under your mouse cursor.
I've tried everything I can to find them in the source code so that I could block them, but without success.
Can someone please tell me how to stop them appearing?
(see attached image for clarification.

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Hubird
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Re: Google delayed popup annoyance.

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Your best bet is to try to hide them with the Element Hiding Helper (see below):

en/elemhidehelper
Maffu
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Re: Google delayed popup annoyance.

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Hubird wrote:Your best bet is to try to hide them with the Element Hiding Helper (see below):
en/elemhidehelper
That's excellent. How I never knew about it's existence until now is a mystery.
Thank you.
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