help with adblock and google ads [solved]

[JoeHill]

JoeHill wrote: 

> 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.

Subscriptions! Didn't know about those, the ad is killed :-)

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