help with adblock and google ads

JoeHill joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Sun Mar 8 19:41:46 UTC 2009


William O'Higgins Witteman wrote: 

> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:20:33PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> >
> >Thank whoever for AdBlock, I honestly can't imagine the Web without it now.
> >
> >One thing I just found, kinda weird, is on this page:
> >
> >http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090316/alterman
> >
> >there is an animated Google ad to the right ('what's your nation-ality?')
> >that I cannot seem to block. It's URL already shows up as one of my
> >'exception rules', which is funny, because I have definitely _never_ set up
> >any exception rules. I hate _all_ ads, no matter what, I don't want to see
> >any.
> >
> >I cannot remove this exception from my adblock prefs, and I cannot add it to
> >my blocked items.  
> 
> I am using AdBlock Plus, and I do not see the ad that you see.  YMMV.

Okay, so it is possible to block it. Do you have a filter rule for:

pagead2.googlesyndication.com

I entered that as a new rule from the prefs dialogue (manually), still not
blocked. And when I hover my mouse over the item in the blockable items list,
the tooltip shows 'whitelisted', even though now I have deleted all 'exception
rules'.

Very frustrating.

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