http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/ads Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: ads - Recent Posts en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:53:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9004#post-86453 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:22:09 +0000 hotdoge3 86453@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6E650B71-7375-45A6-8BB0-D105917549C3/" rel="nofollow">http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6E650B71-7375-45A6-8BB0-D105917549C3/</a></p> <p>A COUPLE OF high profile advertising networks have been accused of letting a brand of malware slip through on their banner ads.</p> <p>DoubleClick and rad.msn.com</p> <p>don&#39;t go to this one for now as my Antivirus NOD32 say trojan.js<br /> JS/Exploit.JavaDepkit.A trojan cornection terminated</p> <p>htxxtp://blog(dot)armorize(dot)com/2010/12/hdd-plus-malware-spread-through.html </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-80286 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:17:29 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 80286@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Rule for little text advertising under the &quot;not available&quot; text for expired giveaways:<br /> <code>giveawayoftheday.com##DIV[style=&quot;width: 100%; position: relative;&quot;]</code> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-80257 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:29:23 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 80257@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>New rule for the Facebook Like button (it&#39;s a minor change):<br /> <code>giveawayoftheday.com##IFRAME[style=&quot;border: medium none; overflow: hidden; width: 400px; height: 80px;&quot;]</code> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-80182 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:47:38 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 80182@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Scratch the above. It screws up the GOTD home page. Instead, use:<br /> <code>giveawayoftheday.com##IFRAME[style=&quot;border: medium none; overflow: hidden; width: 450px; height: 80px;&quot;]</code> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-80179 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:11:06 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 80179@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>In case you don&#39;t use Facebook and have no use for Like buttons...<br /> <code>giveawayoftheday.com##DIV[style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;]</code> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-79765 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:58:18 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 79765@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>To block the latest Idea Informer:<br /> <code>giveawayoftheday.com##DIV[style=&quot;position: static; clear: both;&quot;]</code></p> <p>(Could a mod merge these posts?) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-78994 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:06:01 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 78994@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Meh. I still feel that ABP does the job well. IMO it&#39;s better to leave JS on rather than being paranoid as long as you watch where you&#39;re going. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-78989 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:43:30 +0000 Inas 78989@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Bigun, actually, using NoScript does not forbid all &quot;java-script-based&quot; sites from using &quot;java-script.&quot; The No-Script firefox add-on allows the user to designate which sites should (or should not) be blocked from implementing &quot;java-script,&quot; so the user is in full control of training the &quot;No-Script&quot; add-on to behave as desired by the user. Please go back and read the &quot;No-Script&quot; guidance to verify this for yourself. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-78965 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:07:18 +0000 Bigun 78965@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I read all and tried many of the above suggested ways of eliminating the pop-up from &quot;informer.com&quot;. </p> <p>I found at least one thing objectionable to each of the solutions that I tried. The solution that worked the best at eliminating the &quot;informer.com&quot; pop-up was using &quot;NoScript&quot;. This solution requires using the Firefox browser with the &quot;NoScript&quot; add-on. The bad part of using this solution is that the solution eliminates all Java scripts on any website that uses JavaScript. </p> <p>Ad Muncher is my favorite way of eliminating advertisements because it can be customized to fit all occasions. For some reason Ad Muncher failed to eliminate the GOTD pop up using its native filters. I wrote a filter that when used with Ad Muncher will eliminate the GOTD pop-up and leave other JavaScript applications untouched.</p> <p>The following is what I used to eliminate the &quot;informer.com&quot; pop-up using the Ad Muncher application:</p> <p>open Ad Muncher&#39;s configuration menu</p> <p>click on &quot;my filters&quot; then click on the &quot;add&quot; button and type<br /> the following (without the quotation marks) to the filter description:</p> <p>&quot; *.informer.com &quot;</p> <p>in the filter category type (without the quotation marks): &quot; block retrieval of URL &quot;</p> <p>This fixed the problem for me. I made some other changes to Ad Muncher as well. If you find that the filter as I described it is not working, let me know and I will tell you the other changes that I made.</p> <p>. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-78717 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:14:55 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 78717@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The problem with editing the hosts file is that it&#39;s not for the faint of heart. It&#39;s not foolproof, either. And it can&#39;t narrow down on individual addresses, just domains. And what if you got a local web server running on port 80? (And there&#39;s a reason that the file is in the drivers folder. Files from there is not for regular users to modify.) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-78193 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:06:50 +0000 Buskieboy 78193@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I found that using &quot;ADBLOCK Plus&quot; with the filter:</p> <p>|http://s.web.informer.com/*</p> <p>Got rid of the damned cursed thing. All gone. Bye-bye.</p> <p>Shame on GOTD leaving it&#39;s members to fend for themselves like<br /> this and having to find out how to get rid of an intrusive and<br /> annoying site feature. Why are you so silent? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77741 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:44:46 +0000 goodgotd 77741@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>copmom- I think the pop-ups can be toned down in the settings. Im just too lazy. but this site I have *only* giveawayoftheday.com allowed. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77720 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:00:23 +0000 copmom 77720@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>ummmm.. question! If I installed No Script in Firefox, would that stop java script from working? Several web sites require it be enabled so they work, such as PayPal!<br /> --------------<br /> edit: Never mind.. it explained my question.. but now I keep having a pop up box showing the No Script info. Grrrrrr. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77673 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:30:45 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 77673@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Say, could someone merge the new rule with the rest of the others? Thanks. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77611 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:55:51 +0000 goodgotd 77611@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>yes, the default for noscript is forbid if not told to admit. but when I need the site to script i usually use the tempoary permission only, so it reverts.</p> <p>FWIW, having an override on the color scheme causes more sites to mess up than noscript. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77607 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:29:57 +0000 Bigun 77607@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I have been using &quot;Ad Muncher&quot; several years on one of my computers. The product has been around for over ten years and I have seen a number of improvements during the time that I been using the program.</p> <p>&quot;Ad Muncher&quot; is a very sophisticated and feature rich program. I use the default settings because I have seldom seen a reason to script customized filters. For those that enjoy using filters, you can fill an un-halting day on the Ad Muncher playground. Does it have proxies? Does it have proxies? - It has ooudolls.</p> <p>&quot;Ad Muncher&quot; is not freeware and a license covers one computer. If you take advantage of the thirty day trial, and compare the results that you get with Ad Muncher with other ad and pop-up blocking programs, I am pretty sure that you&#39;ll end up purchasing Ad Muncher.</p> <p>Ad Muncher comes in basic and professional versions. The basic version is updated on a weekly basis and the professional version is updated daily. Licensing agreements have changed several times during the time that I&#39;ve been using the program. I guess that I should purchase a license for my second computer before another change in licensing occurs.</p> <p><a href="http://www.admuncher.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.admuncher.com/</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77603 Mon, 31 May 2010 21:56:48 +0000 Inas 77603@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I agree about &quot;NoScript&quot; being effective (for sure) - but it then interferes with other operations that normally require scripts to run. Oh well, nothing&#39;s perfect I guess. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77602 Mon, 31 May 2010 21:22:53 +0000 goodgotd 77602@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I still think noscript stomps the off-site-supplied adware easier. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77565 Sun, 30 May 2010 09:58:27 +0000 ilta 77565@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Oh my god. Thank you so much. That crap almost had me vowing never to come back.</p> <p>Pop-ups were a despicable practice 10 years ago; they aren&#39;t any better now. Sorry, GOTD: if you want to make money from ads, go ahead, that&#39;s cool, but don&#39;t interfere with my browsing. Any ad that actively interferes with my browsing gets blocked, period. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77472 Fri, 28 May 2010 11:51:44 +0000 Dragonlair 77472@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the hints! I got it blocked with adblocker plus and noticed I had an error in my filter to block the stickr. I got that fixed and now I don&#39;t see hide nor hair of either! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77462 Thu, 27 May 2010 23:46:13 +0000 Buzz 77462@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Just today saw that hideous thing at bottom (before I came to this message board), and had to<br /> add &#39;block retrieval of URL&#39; [http://s.web.informer.com/] to admuncher. Now <em>that&#39;s</em> a lulu of an ad. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77459 Thu, 27 May 2010 22:05:00 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 77459@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The rule to block the new Share button:<br /> <code>|http://s.web.informer.com/favorites-button.js</code> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77266 Sat, 22 May 2010 22:41:15 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 77266@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Actually, that&#39;s what I used in the first place. However, the helper can be a bit finicky, so it&#39;s the fastest if you enter the rules directly. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77264 Sat, 22 May 2010 21:58:25 +0000 ⓒⓗⓘⓟ 77264@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I use <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/chmimgmjdabgiilljdjfbonifbhiglao">AdBlock+ Element Hiding Helper</a> for Google Chrome. With that I don&#39;t have to enter in anything. I click the block button then on the page click what I want to hide and it hides it for me. Here&#39;s what GiveawayoftheDay looks like for me now.<br /> <hr /><br /> <img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/2m5c8pk.png"> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77254 Sat, 22 May 2010 18:57:17 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 77254@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It blocks, but the junk on the GOTD page isn&#39;t hidden (which means you can still see it). The point of this thread is to make it so you can&#39;t see it. It&#39;s impossible to not download the junk in the first place because it is a part of the entire page, and not an external resource. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77250 Sat, 22 May 2010 18:40:03 +0000 goodgotd 77250@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>what about my solution- does it simply hide or block dl? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77249 Sat, 22 May 2010 17:18:33 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 77249@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>A note: Adding these rules doesn&#39;t stop the filtered code from downloading, it&#39;s just not displayed. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77247 Sat, 22 May 2010 17:04:57 +0000 goodgotd 77247@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I just use NoScript and only allow Giveawayoftheday.com, and I&#39;ve never even *seen* Stickr. I used the reg patch to put software informer in the freezer, and that&#39;s all I need. even on the laptop at USB 1.1 speeds on a USB-Ethernet dongle. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536#post-77242 Sat, 22 May 2010 16:12:44 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 77242@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I guess the GOTD team wouldn&#39;t like this, but for those of us who use AdBlock Plus and want to do a thorough job of getting rid of every last piece of useless elements on the GOTD site, here are some rules I added for ABP. Note that these rules supplement the EasyList (USA) subscription.</p> <p>(In order of display in my ABP preferences page:)<br /> Informer hit tracking:</p> <pre>|http://hits.informer.com/*</pre> <p>Stickr (all sites that use the sidebar tab):</p> <pre>|http://stickr.com/load/button/?*</pre> <p>Recent software search (most pointless thing on the site):</p> <pre>giveawayoftheday.com##DIV#pop-searches</pre> <p>Recent software search sidebar (on giveaway pages):</p> <pre>giveawayoftheday.com##DIV#pop-searches-sidebar</pre> <p>&quot;Search for software&quot; searchbar (aka fake search):</p> <pre>giveawayoftheday.com##DIV[style=&quot;margin: 1em 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 12px;&quot;]</pre> <p> (Note: I can&#39;t get rid of the label for the bar because it&#39;ll remove all other similar labels.)<br /> Registry cleaner ad on the front page (that doesn&#39;t display properly when ABP is active):</p> <pre>giveawayoftheday.com##P[style=&quot;margin-top: 2em;&quot;]</pre> <p>Adding those rules will clean up the page a bit, and it&#39;ll speed up page loading time a bit (because they&#39;re not parsed and displayed). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2885#post-22036 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:52:18 +0000 goodgotd 22036@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>ID ten T solvent, please. </p>