On 12-May-06 Richard Brooklyn wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 10:13 +0100, Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
For a long time I've been irritated, visiting the Guardian website ( http://www.guardian.co.uk ) with Firefox, by the sneaky intrusion from questionmarket.com.
I strongly suggest you get the adblock extension for Firefox. It's the first extension I ever install with new set-ups and works great with FilterSet.G Updater, so I didn't even have to make any rules for it.
You can simply right click something, and select the option for adblock to remove it. You can then set a more advanced filter if you wish. Adblock will actually remove the element completely, as if it had never been coded in. Sometimes, it makes page rendering a tad wonkey, but that is well worth it given the advantages. It also leave a small button on the bottom left which lists all the elements in the page which can be deleted. I suspect that your annoying questionaire thing is just a simple <script> tag which can easily be blocked.
Interesting info, Richard. Thanks for the thorough account.
I turned off adblock, and visted the guardian page. I noticed the triangle after viewing a couple of stories... I found it easy to ignore tho. It only opened in the bottom left corner, and didn't obscure the article at all.
Unfortunately, in my case it often moves in from the left, in little steps, until it's right in the middle! It can also come to a halt somewhat to the left, though.
Using the adblock element list, a simple rule of "http://amch.questionmarket.com/*" would block that triangle from ever appearing again.
With my default adblock rules turned back on. I couldn't get the triangle to appear again. The advert banner from along the top was also removed.
Hope this helps. -Richard.
Indeed it should! Many thanks for all that. Best wishes, Ted.
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