SOLVED Annoying Ad overlays.

Wathnix · Dec 23, 2010

I've been noticing more web sites are using a kind of 'overlay' ad on their pages that lets you see the article briefly then puts an ad over the entire page and forces you to click some sort of 'skip this ad' button to get past it. here is an example.

http://www.tomshardware.com/us/#redir

I find this very annoying and was wondering if there is some sort of ad blocker setting or software or ad-on i can get to stop this. I am currently running firefox 3.6.13

thanks for any help

jediobi1 · Dec 23, 2010

Wathnix said:
I've been noticing more web sites are using a kind of 'overlay' ad on their pages that lets you see the article briefly then puts an ad over the entire page and forces you to click some sort of 'skip this ad' button to get past it. here is an example.

http://www.tomshardware.com/us/#redir

I find this very annoying and was wondering if there is some sort of ad blocker setting or software or ad-on i can get to stop this. I am currently running firefox 3.6.13

thanks for any help

have you tried adblock plus addon for firefox cause i went there and didnt the ad

Sephis · Dec 23, 2010

jediobi1 said:
have you tried adblock plus addon for firefox cause i went there and didnt the ad

AdBlock Plus works wonderfully for this sort of thing. I didn't see any ads at all on that page. I turned it off just to make sure and got the popup.

A link to the ABP install page.

Automata · Dec 23, 2010

And websites wonder why people block advertisements. The more annoying it is, the more reason I have to block it. :-/

Shell · Dec 23, 2010

Not using adblock not only floods you with crap, it's unsafe, even google distributes malware through ads.

Jmtyra · Dec 23, 2010

Not to mention the number of exploits in the past that were carried via images in ad networks. Slows down the page loading time, too, as you have to wait for a slow ad server. Ugh.

Edit: Shell beat me

Wathnix · Dec 23, 2010

Thanks all, click the link from Sephis and problem solved!

DreamerBrian · Dec 24, 2010

Is there such an addon for Chrome?

Jmtyra · Dec 24, 2010

Yup

Code:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=adblock+plus+chrome

Code:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb?hl=en

Shell · Dec 25, 2010

Isn't chrome adblock... bad?
I believe it's only aesthetic and there's a much smaller list library.

Jmtyra · Dec 25, 2010

Shell said:
Isn't chrome adblock... bad?
I believe it's only aesthetic and there's a much smaller list library.

Bad? I don't follow. Bad how? :shrug:

It's certainly not aesthetic...I use it, and it's practically the same as FF.
Both have the EasyList list library, which is pretty standard.

Maybe I'm missing something?

Shell · Dec 25, 2010

Jmtyra said:
Bad? I don't follow. Bad how?
It's certainly not aesthetic...I use it, and it's practically the same as FF.
Both have the EasyList list library, which is pretty standard.
Maybe I'm missing something?

Haven't tried chrome in ages but the lists were a bit behind because they were ports, and the real problem being ads are still downloaded and some scripts executed.

Jmtyra · Dec 25, 2010

Hmmm -- I have to be honest...I haven't compared the lists line by line. Since they were named the same I guessed they had the same content. Dunno :shrug:

Same thing for the ads/scripts still being downloaded piece...not sure if it's handled differently.

We're OT here, but I wish I had more info for you!

DreamerBrian · Dec 25, 2010

Jmtyra said:

Yup

Code:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=adblock+plus+chrome

Code:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb?hl=en

Thanks, dude.

Brian

Jmtyra · Dec 25, 2010

DreamerBrian said:
Thanks, dude.

Brian

Anytime my man, and Merry Christmas :santa:

Wayward_Son · Dec 25, 2010

I have ABP for Firefox and I STILL get those popup/overlay ads all the friggin time. Is there some kind of setting somewhere that I'm supposed to enable to make ABP more aggressive?

Jmtyra · Dec 25, 2010

You might want to get NoScript as well...unless a website doesn't function "normally" then leave scripting disabled. It might help.

For ABP, make sure you are subscribed to EasyList, it's enabled, and updated.

Wayward_Son · Dec 25, 2010

Thank you, that's exactly what I needed. I didn't realize I could add subscriptions to ABP. This should work perfectly.

Jmtyra · Dec 25, 2010

SOLVED Annoying Ad overlays.

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