With many websites beginning to use <div>s (or other block elements) to
display ads, many "classical" ad blocking features are getting useless.
I'm seeing this on many news sites.
I understand that this is going to be tricky to filter out
automatically. But recently I came thru an idea. Don't know how
complicated it would be to implement, and thought I'd post it here:
when a ad-<div> appears, the user should have the option (triggered by
a menu option, a button in the icons bar, or a key combo) to
select (click on) an ad-<div> to make it disappear.
To identify it, the divs should be highlighted while the user passes
over them with the mouse pointer (maybe similarly, but more elegantly,
to what the "web developer" extension does in Firefox). This wouldn't
be as confortable as automatic filtering, but actually I don't see how
ads like these could be filtered without user interaction.
Of course there would be further options, such as saving the
ID/class of the div for a particular website, in case they keep
always the same... or identifying the "candidates" by detecting which
<div>s were made visible by a javascript...
dunno, but it's really frustrating to see a friendly app displaying
unfriendly content ;))
Regards,
Lorenzo
On 23.07.2005, at 00:59, Yanik Magnan wrote:
I find Camino's ad blocker better than Firefox's AdBlock extension.
I guess it's a matter of tastes really.
On 22-Jul-05, at 6:51 PM, Scott wrote:
Ad blocking through CSS just isn't an adequate solution.
Scott
On Jul 22, 2005, at 03:26•, paulc wrote:
Further to the ad-blocking "issue," reluctantly I had to turn it
off. allmusic.com, which I frequently use seems to be totally
blocked with ad-blocking enabled. I repeated it several times; ad-
blocking on, nothing displays, ad-blocking off, it pops on the
screen pretty quickly.
I have also noticed (seat of the pants, no empirical testing)
that loading pages seems to be way, way slow. I have a 5Mb down
connection and it sometimes seems I'm almost back on the modem!
I'll run for the next week with it off to see if it makes that
much of a difference. I'd still like to se an exceptions list for
ad-blocking...
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