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.
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. 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.