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.

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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.

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Alain wrote:
> There is a FlashBlock addon available. I have it. It's one of those 
> "can't live without" things, side by side with the addblock addon.

I have a flash-block! On my WinXP laptop, the privileged account can see 
flash, and the non-administrator account doesn't show it. I haven't 
quite figured that out. I even tried granting privs to the usual 
account, installing flash, and revoking the privs, and it still doesn't 
work.  (Hmmm... I'll have to see if it works if I try it with the privs 
turned on.)

Any ideas?

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Darren New wrote:

> I have a flash-block! On my WinXP laptop, the privileged account can see 
> flash, and the non-administrator account doesn't show it. I haven't 
> quite figured that out. I even tried granting privs to the usual 
> account, installing flash, and revoking the privs, and it still doesn't 
> work.  (Hmmm... I'll have to see if it works if I try it with the privs 
> turned on.)
> 
> Any ideas?

FLASH! OHHH! KING OF THE IMPOSSIBLE!



(Er... sorry about that.)

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Invisible wrote:
> 
> True. But turning off "load images" and "load Java" and "load 
> JavaScript" stops them from appearing. So I'm guessing the options are 
> just badly named.
> 

You said half of the pages are made with JS, so I'd guess disabling JS 
would disable those adverts.

I have pretty simple solution myself - I don't have flash player installed.

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