Mueen Nawaz nous illumina en ce 2008-09-19 11:27 -->
> Warp wrote:
>> Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
>>   IMO there's the danger in such generic filtering that it will sometimes
>> filter something which is *not* an ad, and might be relevant to the 
>> contents
>> of the website.
> 
>     Hasn't happened yet. Perhaps I did block non-ads, but they weren't 
> important enough for me to realize.
> 
>>   I prefer using adblock on a site-by-site basis. In other words, 
>> whenever
>> there's an obnoxious ad that bothers my concentration, I block images 
>> from
>> that url+path.
> 
>     I used to do it on a site basis, but it didn't work well for me. I 
> don't want to merely remove ads from sites I visit often. I want to 
> remove them from as many sites as possible, including a site I've never 
> seen that I may visit today.
> 
With adblock, you can use "*" as a wildcard. So, I want to block some add? I 
right-click the offending add and sélect block... In the dialog that show up, I 
replace most of the string by a single *. Hit the return key and close. Voilà, I 
see about 12+ ads disapear at once :) And if I encounter add by that server 
anywhere else, they to, are blocked.
Some of the blocking strings are: "*doubleclick*", "*adbrite*", "*adserve*",... 
or something like "<some site URL>/banner/*" if I want to remove the banners but 
not the rest of the content.

-- 
Alain
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you look at waterfalls, dust, 
rain, snow, etc, and think: "If only I had a fractalized, vector based 
particle-system modeler with collision detection!"

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