Adblock To Block Google Ads, Possible?

[lylo]

Hi everyone!

I don't know whether this will get a positive or negative response from you guys, but for all of you firefox users who also have Adblock installed, do you know if its possible to completely prevent the googlesyndication.com banners and ads? I love the feeling of being able to jus right click an ad or a banner to never see it again, and I don't know if its to how those google ads work or what but it is annoying seeing those banners all the time.

So if anyone could tell me if its possible, and how to completely prevent seeing these ads, that would be BRILLIANT!

[XtremeMaC]

i don't use firefox but disabling access to googlesyn.. should solve the problem. add it to hosts file, erm ok stupid

btw

IE here.

btw, I'm working on script that will block access to MSFN if user browser block ads displayed on MSFN. This site depends on ads. I can see from server logs that almost 50% of visitors block google ads. User will be redirected to another (disney.com fx.) site.

Im not sure yet I will implement it. Time will tell.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ndpost&p=273023

Edited February 15, 2005 by XtremeMaC

[DigeratiPrime]

i think the lists this guy makes already to this by default:

http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/

however I believe there was a poll about whether or not to do so. Some people are afraid these filter lists are too damaging to 'good ads'. Hopefully the adblock extension will get updated soon with a whitelist feature.

#  But I want to support my favorite site! Can I set Adblock to download, and then hide stuff?

Yes, see next question.

# What's the difference between "hide" and "remove"?

"Hide" preserves a page's layout -- content being downloaded, but not visibly rendered.

"Remove" collapses the layout -- no content is downloaded.

# Can I whitelist a site, to keep it from being filtered?

This is coming -- very soon.

[lylo]

That post by xper was exactly the kind of response I had in mind when i mentioned a positive or negative response

Thats completely fair though and I accept that with no trouble whatsoever