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Author Topic: How to get rid of certain advertisements  (Read 6,101 times)

patteo

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How to get rid of certain advertisements
« on: October 09, 2007, 01:28 AM »
I was at this free wireless zone where I buy a coffee and you can use the wireless.

This is a great way check a few sites when you are out and about.

But just today, I noticed that they started taking over about 7% of the real estate at the bottom of each page.

I could block the advertising graphics. But that did not release the "hijacked" screen real estate.

I examine the html code on the page with the Firefox Firebug Addon and in fact I can get back my screen real estate by deleting the relevant code, but each time I refresh, the real estate gets taken over again.

Does anyone knows of a Firefox Addon that can help me block all this pesky squatters and reclaim the real estate.

Thanks

Kuntau

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Re: How to get rid of certain advertisements
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2007, 01:39 AM »
I dont know about firefox addon but you can try proxomitron or just use Maxthon2 which has build-in page filter for that.

I hope that help

Deozaan

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Re: How to get rid of certain advertisements
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2007, 01:48 AM »
I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about, but if it's loading in a frame, Adblock can let you block entire iframes instead of just images and scripts.

patteo

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Re: How to get rid of certain advertisements
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2007, 02:16 AM »
Thanks Kuntau and Deozaan for your responses.

I disabled Adblock Addon and Installed Adblock Plus (a more advanced version) http://adblockplus.org/en/

Did a little tweaking and now I can just concentrate on the coffee and surfing without distractions.

sri

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Re: How to get rid of certain advertisements
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2007, 12:00 PM »

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