[privoxy-devel] [ ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 ] Block 160x578 Banners

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Feature Requests item #3006719, was opened at 2010-05-25 02:06
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Category: Configuration
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Status: Pending
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Stephen Anderson (thebashar)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Block 160x578 Banners

Initial Comment:
Google fastflip uses a variation on the 160x600 skyscraper.  They use a size of 150x578.  Could this be added to the default filters without too much collateral damage?

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2010-05-29 21:31

Message:
Hi Lee.  I tried adding that pattern but the images still show up.  I guess
they're getting through via javascript or something.

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Comment By: Lee (ler762)
Date: 2010-05-29 20:20

Message:
160x578 isn't a standard ad image size (ref.
http://www.iab.net/standards/adunits.asp) so I wouldn't add it to filter
banners-by-size

I did add a blocker for pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad to CVS
tho:
{+block-as-image}
googlesyndication.com/.*/imgad\?

Could you see if that's good enough for blocking image ads on pageflip?

Thanks,
Lee

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Comment By: Stephen Anderson (thebashar)
Date: 2010-05-25 17:51

Message:
Sure, if you click on one of the images of a story it switches to a single
page type view.  That's where this particular format of ad appears.

An example URL that displays these ads is:
http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/view?q=view:popular&a=048QxAzDshV9HM&type=fp

An example of the actual ads shown is:
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CPqW6-eOmZPEJRCgARjCBDII4MxbiGrSYA4

Thanks for looking into this!

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Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2010-05-25 16:27

Message:
Could you please post the exact URL of a page where you get those ads?

While I found fastflip.googlelabs.com, the main page seems to be ad-free
and the rest of the site doesn't seem to work with my Firefox settings and
I get neither ads nor content. Web 2.0 ftw.

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Comment By: Stephen Anderson (thebashar)
Date: 2010-05-25 02:07

Message:
Crap typo.  Subject was correct, comment was wrong.  Fast flip uses 160x578
skyscrapers.

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