help with adblock and google ads

[Lennart Sorensen]

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.
> 
> WTF?

I use the firefox noscript plugin, and a privoxy proxy.  Those together
seem to do wonders.

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