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Started 13 years ago by Steph
Latest reply from goodgotd

Steph
Member

Default useage of the Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox, or Adblock for Google Chrome, garbles a couple of sentences on the GOTD home page.

If I view the home page with IE8 (no Adblock) I see these two sentences just above the 'Proceed to download page' button:

If you install software often, your registry file gets bloated reducing overall system performance.
Now Giveaway of the Day users are eligible for FREE scan for Windows errors.

If I view it with either Firefox or Chrome (With Adblock) I see this nonsense instead:

If you install software often, your registry file reducing overall system performance.
Now Giveaway of the Day users are eligible for FREE scan for .

Surely it must be possible for the interaction with Adblock to take place more gracefully than that.

Posted 13 years ago #
Steph
Member

Sorry, my mistake, that wasn't exactly right. The text on Firefox and Chrome actually comes out as this:

If you install software often, your registry file reducing overall system performance.
Now Giveaway of the Day users are eligible for .

Posted 13 years ago #
notblocklox
retired

Hi, Steph, I don't have any "garbled text".

These are my filters in Firefox:

##a[href^="http://www.liutilities.com/aff"]
/linkinformer.js
giveawayoftheday.com/ticker/
||hits.informer.com^$third-party
|http://s.web.informer.com/themes/glass/js/*
||stickr.com^

I don't know if this helps you, just play around with the filters, you can't do anything wrong.
Even I could adjust it. You can even block more than I did if you want.

graylox

Posted 13 years ago #
Steph
Member

Hi Graylox, thanks for your reply.

When I installed Adblock on both my browsers, I accepted the Easylist filter subscription, which is the one suggested for English language users. It adds hundreds of filters, and I haven't modified the default list.

You're right, I could fiddle around with my filters, since the text is clearly being deleted by Adblock. But it doesn't actually bother me personally. I just thought that the site owners might be interested in what many GOTD visitors are likely to see.

Posted 13 years ago #
notblocklox
retired

Well, the site owners would be happier, if all their users could and would read the complete advertising - LOL
That's the way they get money for the giveaways.

But to be honest, the stickr pest is too much, even for me.

Posted 13 years ago #
GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
Blocked

Check my thread regarding AdBlock Plus rules for GOTD here: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7536

@graylox: You blocked the ticker for GOTD?

Posted 13 years ago #
notblocklox
retired

@graylox: You blocked the ticker for GOTD?

do I miss something?
With or with out this filter, I don't see any changes - LOL
Besides adblock I have Ghostery installed.

Posted 13 years ago #
GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
Blocked

You actually don't if you stay on the main GOTD site. It's used on their blog and the games site to advertise the main site. IMO it's somewhat unnecessary, but it really doesn't impact much, if you visit the main GOTD site anyways (which is probably what everyone does).

Posted 13 years ago #
notblocklox
retired

Yes, it's the ticker for games giveaway; but who needs that when there are no games?

Posted 13 years ago #
Steph
Member

I changed my mind and I did add some more filters.

Thanks to both Graylox and GMMan, I have now got a much cleaner page.

Many thanks for your help, guys.

Posted 13 years ago #
goodgotd
Member

Adblock seems more useful for specific annoying sites. general use I like NoScript better.

And I dunno what colors you see, but *that* is what's most annoying for me- so I set my own light-on-dark scheme and drive on.

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