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If you were using a well updated filter set, then you wouldn't have suffered anything... unless you'd not blocked flash... All I got was an annoying flash video... no other adverts or pop-ups at all. I use filterset.G updater with Adblock plus... works a treat... http://www.pierceive.com/

I'll add some links! Get Adblock Plus here: http://adblockplus.org/en/ Get Filterset.G Updater here: http://www.pierceive.com/ With this pair of extensions, you won't ever see ads again, and the blacklist will update itself automagically.

Answer: Adblock Filterset.G Updater
http://www.pierceive.com/

Yes, the Adblock Plus extension to Firefox does the job nicely, and for a lot more companies than just doubleclick. You'll want to change your hosts file back since it'll become redundant, and it's better than having a cluttered up core system file.

Use a software to block the ads. I had no problems with Adblock with FilterSet.G in Mozilla v1.7.13 in Windows and Linux. :)

I haven't seen ads since I installed Adblock Plus with the Filterset.G updater.

This sort of junk is EXACTLY why I started using ad blocking. After getting hit 3 times by something like that. It was time to do something about it. 0 adware 0 spyware 0 viri in the last 18 months. My *windows* exp is actually nice. No crashes, no slowdowns. Its amazing.

Try this one to start with
http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/no-ads/
then combine it with (i put all the hosts into the pac file as a big hosts file is a bad idea and slow)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
plus
http://adblockplus.mozdev.org/
plus
http://www.pierceive.com/

plus staying up to date on all patches.

and you have a truely AWSOME experiance.
Surprisingly this actually works semi well as 'advertisers' are cheap. So they tend to use the same web sites over and over to feed the data. Never mind most of the advert servers are *SLOW*. If you look most of the time its waiting on those servers to finish rendering the page.

I use the pac thing because I still use IE quite a bit for different things. Plus it gets a lot of things the other one does not. I could update Adblockk plus to just do it all but this gives me IE blocking as well.

There's no excuse to split an article like this up.

In these situations, look for the "Print This Article" or "Printer-Friendly" or whatever. You'll get the whole article on one page, sometimes in a new window, maybe with an ad or maybe none at all. Usually the printable page has minimal formatting, so it will wrap to your window width, and if you're lucky (gasp) on a single screen.

Also the Adblock extension for Firefox r00lz. Check out Filterset.G from http://www.pierceive.com/ to go with it.

Forecastfox - Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or status bar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.

FlashGot - Download one link, selected links or all the links of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular external download managers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD (dozens currently supported products, see http://www.flashgot.net/ for details). FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthesize full media galleries in one page, from serial contents previously scattered on several pages, for easy and fast download all.

Adblock - One of the best plug-ins ever written. Adblack allows you to block elements of a web page, images, flash, i-frames, etc This will help make pages load faster and with zero ads!

Adblock is a content filtering plug-in for the Mozilla and Firebird browsers. It is both more robust and more precise than the built-in image blocker.

Adblock allows the user to specify filters, which remove unwanted content based on the source-address. If this sounds complicated, dont worry: its not.

Just add a few filters. Every time a webpage loads, Adblock will intercept and disable the elements matching your filters. See?- nothing to it.

Adblock Filterset.G Updater - This is a companion extension to Adblock and should be used in conjunction with it. This extension automatically downloads the latest version of Filterset.G every 4-7 days. Filterset.G is an excellent set of filters maintained by G for Adblock that blocks most ads on the internet. In addition, this extension allows you to define your own set of filters that you can add along with Filterset.G during an update.

Tabbrowser Preferences - This extension provides a comprehensive UI for changing a number of the hidden tabbed browsing preferences in Firefox. It also provides the ability to control how internal and external links are opened in the browser and how the browser will react when links are sent to it.

IE Tab - IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. Note, this will also allow you to run Windows Update also.

Wizz RSS News Reader - News is the new frontier for the web. With the up-and-coming rss and atom technologies, news is becoming easier to read and more accessible, but Firefoxs livebookmarks are rather lacking when it comes to features.

Wizz RSS News Reader is the solution. Over the past year, its evolved into a mature feed aggregator. Although the UI lacks polish, it includes a number of powerful features, such as the watch list, OPML support, and the ability to subscribe to podcasts. The documentation is extensive and the author maintains support forums, so its easy to get help too :)

Viamatic foXpose - The Viamatic foXpose plugin is a tiny little extension that lets you view all your tabs inside a browser window.

Duplicate Tab - Duplicate Tab allows you to clone a tab along with its history.

SessionSaver - SessionSaver restores your browser -exactly- as you left it, every startup, every time. Not even a crash will phase it. Windows, tabs, even things you were typing theyre all saved. Use the menu to add + remove sessions; right, shift, or middle-clickin

Yes, here are the instructions for using with Adblock plus.

Slashdot has a banner at the top?

Man, i didn't know people still had to put up with that crap. I just assumed once AdBlock became so prevalent they just got rid of it.

Anyways, if you dont know what adblock is, you dont belong on slashdot. However, if you can't get Adblock to work like it should, you should check out http://www.pierceive.com/.

It will cover all of your adblock list needs. It even has an autoupdater, so you can stay up to date, even if your forgetful like me.

What did people do before firefox?

Filterset.G, when used with Adblock Plus, has a whitelist rule that allows Gmail to work properly. At least I haven't encountered any problems.

This is pretty much the accepted standard for Adblock rules, Filterset.G.

The latest version is 2005-12-11a.txt, download it (Right click - Save link as). Open up Adblock (CTRL-SHIFT-P), go to Adblock Options, click Import Filters and browse to the file that you just downloaded and load it in. Appending the list is probably a better idea if you have added items to the block list.

This is pretty much the accepted standard for Adblock rules, Filterset.G.

The latest version is 2005-12-11a.txt, download it (Right click - Save link as). Open up Adblock (CTRL-SHIFT-P), go to Adblock Options, click Import Filters and browse to the file that you just downloaded and load it in. Appending the list is probably a better idea if you have added items to the block list.

Ad Block - Almost 100% effect and is 100% lethal to banner ads.

I actually have a problem with ad blocking. I am well aware that a lot of sites depend on income from banner views and clicks.

I'll admit to the fact that Adblock+NoScript makes for a combination that really does improve my browsing experience. Furthermore the likes of Greasemonkey is now allowing me to "improve" on the layout shape type and item of content that I view. It isn't long before my favourite sites are ad free, annoyance free and a real joy to browse. Recently I have started to move over to using a proxy to filter out the content, mainly because I am now offering my local net to friends and I wish to enhance their experience without them even knowing.

I think that the most important thing on any site is content, if I can't view the content without huge amounts of ads I am must less likely to return.

Oh and you might be interested in the Filterset.G, a present group of filters (some quite advanced in style) for Adblock http://www.pierceive.com/

The solution is Filterset.G, now self-updating.

Or you could just get Filterset.G.

I wonder if the adblocker from Konqueror is compatibile with firefox Adblock.

(...As you've certainly noticed...) Adblock by itself is worthless. Its empty filter base makes it inactive and only weeks of careful building it would make the extension normally useful. Only combined with a good killfile like Filterset.G it really kicks ass, at once. Same applies to any other adblocker - what filters are available for Konqueror?

Are there adverts on the internet then? WTF...

True enough though, for a while I couldn't be bothered to filter Google's ads. Nowadays I find RIP and CustomizeGoogle keep the interface nice and clean.

Useful links for those that like to make their own mind up:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
http://rip.mozdev.org/index.html
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
http://www.pierceive.com/

And for those that might bleat "without advertising, many sites would fail" I say Good. Let those sites fail. Give me micropayments and an honest relationship.

Prefbar (configure settings in Web browsers), FilterSet.G for Adblock (and Plus) [more ad strings to block and always updated by the author -- can send in requests), and TinyURL Creator (duh, make tiny urls. I use these in Mozilla suite, not Firefox.

Couple Adblock+ with Filterset.G and you'll have yourself a clean browsing experience. I personally maintain my own filters, but by "maintain" I mean "edit every once in a while".

a prebuilt adblock list that even has an extension to auto-update.

So who should pay for content if ads shouldn't?

Look, I work in the magazine business. The magazine I work for does not charge for subscriptions. Thus, we get all of our revenue from advertising or some other form of sponsorship. And so therefore, yes, pretty much every penny of my salary comes from ads. Many of those ads are sold on our Web site.

And you know what? I use Firefox and Filterset.G and I wouldn't have it any other way. I block all ads, even Google ads, because I don't want to see ads when I surf the Web, period.

Am I being shortsighted? Am I cutting my own throat? Is my telling you all of this only going to encourage you all to do the same and put my publication out of business that much faster? I'm sorry, but I just can't see it that way.

I don't work in sales and I don't work in marketing. My job is to create content and make it appealing enough that it finds its way out to an audience. As far as I'm concerned, if I've convinced you to read it/look at it/listen to it/whatever, my job is done. Who gives a damn who's going to pay for it? That's what I work for a great big corporation for. Let them figure it out.

Seriously, plenty of people go to school, get degrees, and devote their whole careers to worrying about the question of how content is going to get paid for. From where I sit, they do that so I don't have to.

I look at it this way: If what I do has any value at all, then there will always be a demand for it. That demand ought to be translatable into dollars somehow. For the salespeople out there who bemoan the fact that people want to get rid of ads, here's a little Glengarry Glen Ross moment for you: "Third prize is you're fired." If a given sales technique isn't working and you're not closing sales and you're not bringing in revenue, then you need to think up something else.

But I don't. I just don't like the ads, so I make them go away without even looking at them. Yes, somebody should be giving that some thought. Just not me.

http://www.pierceive.com/ has a damn good filterset for Firefox adblock. I've hardly had a problem using it, and it is much easier to grab the new one than constantly adding sites to your own list (especially when you're too lazy to export it to another pc).

Google Ads have to be the only ads that I have actually purposely clicked on to get to something I might be interested in. The rest are just random crap that floods the internet chewing up bandwith for no reason.

I really hate the flash ones that float across the screen because they are a lot like telemarketers. They are unwanted, but they still call you thinking that you might actually buy their product. Look at the do-not-call list. Telemarketing companies want to get rid of the do-not-call list as if the people who want to block them will actually buy their products after having the do-not-call list dismantled.

Similarly, most internet ads are to most people, unwanted. If you force it upon them, there is an even less chance that the person will be interested in whatever you are advertising for, since they will be pissed off that you forced it upon them. Having non-intrusive ads like the quiet text-links google puts in its search results are the way to go.

Anyways to solve this problem, I am using AdBlock Extension (in Firefox of course) with a filterset to block all those bastards like casalemedia. If you use Firefox, check this out and your ad problems will all be completely solved.

Don't forget Filterset.G and the auto-updater extension.

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"Most, perhaps all the blame, rests with the parents." - Bender

Don't forget Filterset.G and the auto-updater extension.

--
"Most, perhaps all the blame, rests with the parents." - Bender

If you're still even seeing ads that you make a decision on whether or not to block you need a better filterset ;)

http://www.pierceive.com/

solution part 1
solution part 2

Coding misstep forces new Firefox release

http://news.com.com/Coding+misstep+forces+new+Fire fox+release/2100-1002_3-5792635.html?tag=nefd.top


well....at least we have extensions.... here's my list:

TextZoom - because I'm blind as a bat
Adblock - use with Filterset.G from http://www.pierceive.com
Session Saver - saves tab sessions _when_ firefox crashes
Web Developer - lot of web dev options
IE View - click to view in IE
Target Alert - let's me know what I'm clicking on
ForecastFox - show forecast
FindBar Switch - makes the find bar toogle hide/un-hide with CTRL+F
Download Statusbar - much better than the download window/popup
SpellBound - because my spelling sux

adblock by itself is nearly useless. You need to block all the banner websites yourself, and I mean ALL of them (ze whole internets). More work than closing popups. But if you share the effort with other people by using and extending Filterset.G for adblock, that's a completely different matter. You get most of banners filtered off.

Check this guy out. He updates his filter list weekly, if not daily, and it works great!

http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/

Just download the .txt named with the most recent date.

http://www.pierceive.com/