One way to get around the annoying ad-frame you get when using the Denver airport’s free wifi:
Okay, so last weekend I was at the airport in Denver, waiting for my plane, taking advantage of the free wifi. Only, nothing’s free, and DIA pays for some of the cost of providing free wifi by displaying ads with every page you load. I did my American duty and clicked on some of the ads — and then made a few more clicks into those sites, just to pretend like I was interested. But that wasn’t enough for the adserver. It kept giving me the ads. Annoying. But there’s a way around it, and this is how to get your pages to display without any ads when using the Denver airport’s free wifi.
First, you must have a tab-based browser. No, IE6 doesn’t cut it, sorry. Next, go to a page that has a link to the page you want to open. This page will have ads, that’s fine. What you do here is control-click the link you want to open, twice. Yeah, twice. Control-clicking will open those pages, each in a new tab. It’s likely one of those tabs will have an ad, and it’s likely the other tab won’t. Problem solved. (Note: this is most useful for articles you know you’ll want to read on the plane, and for apps that don’t load new pages, like GMail).
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