Have you noticed the Adobe ad on the XDA-General Topics page interferes with the XDA Forums search function.
Is this the way Adobe hopes to gain use/ acceptance ?
What Ads are those then?
Firefox + AdBlock Plus takes care of that for me
Ta
Dave
Thank Dave
I'm using Firefox - will try "Ad Block Plus".
Shame Adobe can't do web ads that cause these types of problems.
Can't be good for businesses that use Adobe products to adversise if everyone blocks ads due to these types of issues.
I used a different way to block ads on my laptop using Google Chrome. This works differently from AdBlock. This is a manual way. A bit difficult to grasp hold off though.
So basically using Google Chrome's JavaScript console you take off the bits of code that represent the ads and the ads vanish.
I was wondering whether this could be implemented somehow in an application. This app would run the website. Then you would get a similar version of the Javascript console, you would take off the ads and then the app would let you access the rest of the website.
This could be an amazing add-on for a web browser.
Here's link to a How-to I made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K59MI4e7J3w&context=C364178cADOEgsToPDskKvHDuKcmE4emuZg8UD6I7g
[PLEASE A MOD MOVE THIS TO A DEVELOPMENT FORUM] Sorry, did not realise while posting.
You should do some reading and learn (if you need to) Javascript (and jQuery) and look into writing a Chrome extension that would remove elements from a page with a right-click -> delete type action. Also, with Chrome you can get to the element much quicker. Right-click and do "Inspect element". It opens the dom explorer with the selected element highlighted so you can just right-click it and "delete node". Much quicker than manually scrolling through the dom.
Incidentally, the only problem with doing it manually is that the hidden elements are there next time you visit the site, or if you refresh the page.
Thanks. Im just a 17 year old kid with big dreams
Just working on getting my way around VB and Java. Will try to learn something about jQuery after my prelims end.
hateem said:
Thanks. Im just a 17 year old kid with big dreams
Just working on getting my way around VB and Java. Will try to learn something about jQuery after my prelims end.
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If you're going to be doing some Java then that would be a good intro for JavaScript, which is a web based scripting language, but it has its origins in the same roots as Java so there are similarities in syntax.
I was an 8 year old kid with big dreams I stuck with them and I've now been working as a professional developer, writing windows software, mobile software and web applications for about 16 years. If it's what you want then stick at it. You're post proves you have the right mix of creativity and curiosity needed to persist with development. I just hope you're good at maths too
thanks it was helpfull
Blocking just the visible page content will never be a 100% proof. There are plenty of javascript ads that generate the content on the fly.
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Blocking just the visible page content will never be a 100% proof. There are plenty of javascript ads that generate the content on the fly.
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So you just hide it once it's generated. There's always ways round it. Just nothing generic.
hateem said:
I used a different way to block ads on my laptop using Google Chrome. This works differently from AdBlock. This is a manual way. A bit difficult to grasp hold off though.
So basically using Google Chrome's JavaScript console you take off the bits of code that represent the ads and the ads vanish.
I was wondering whether this could be implemented somehow in an application. This app would run the website. Then you would get a similar version of the Javascript console, you would take off the ads and then the app would let you access the rest of the website.
This could be an amazing add-on for a web browser.
Here's link to a How-to I made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K59MI4e7J3w&context=C364178cADOEgsToPDskKvHDuKcmE4emuZg8UD6I7g
[PLEASE A MOD MOVE THIS TO A DEVELOPMENT FORUM] Sorry, did not realise while posting.
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thanks for sharing this with us, this will come in handy
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So you just hide it once it's generated. There's always ways round it. Just nothing generic.
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If you don't mind do it on each page refresh, go for it...dealing with the source is the way to go, not like this.
I personally don't use Chrome, I prefer Firefox and AdBlock there works magic, it works at the root of the ads and also allows block visible parts on the page as well.
Revenue generation
You know you shouldn't really be blocking those ads as it helps pay for these sites, including xdadevelopers. Those ads are the key to keeping these very informative sites free to everyone. If there are certain advertisements that bother you, then I suggest finding something that blocks only certain ads, say just block popups but not the banner types.
I don't mind ads at all on websites like XDA and most others. I was referring to websites that ask you to complete surveys and select ads in order to reveal their content. I was frustrated with the general concept and the limitations that Ad blockers had.
The regular ad is ok, but ad infested websites is what I dislike.
They wish to monetise from the content they have, that is ok. But when people start getting greedy, that becomes a problem.
So, as there are countless members of this community, i thought it would be best to ask here.
Im getting tired of firefox so i switched to IE9. I use the tracking protection feature which is basically a built in adblocker etc. Unfortunately, all the list's that exist for the filter, sadly sucks. One claims to have all the same things imported from Adblock Plus which is a firefox addon and its the best adblocker ive used. Never 1 add or pop up. But anyways, all the lists suck. Is there any programs or secret lists i could use that dont show up on the website? I love IE9 its just annoying that its adblock ability's suck.. It blocks some adds but not pops up and it makes a lot of websites have issues working..
Ive looked through cnet but most have to be paid for.. does adblock plus have a version for windows and not just firefox and chrome?
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So, as there are countless members of this community, i thought it would be best to ask here.
Im getting tired of firefox so i switched to IE9. I use the tracking protection feature which is basically a built in adblocker etc. Unfortunately, all the list's that exist for the filter, sadly sucks. One claims to have all the same things imported from Adblock Plus which is a firefox addon and its the best adblocker ive used. Never 1 add or pop up. But anyways, all the lists suck. Is there any programs or secret lists i could use that dont show up on the website? I love IE9 its just annoying that its adblock ability's suck.. It blocks some adds but not pops up and it makes a lot of websites have issues working..
Ive looked through cnet but most have to be paid for.. does adblock plus have a version for windows and not just firefox and chrome?
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For IE9 you'll want to visit this link:
http://wiredhut.blogspot.com/2011/08/all-in-one-adblock-resource-fanboys.html
Basically all you're doing is adding fanboys adblock list to IE9 by clicking the "Add TPL" link here:
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/ie.html
I'm looking for a simple OPDS browser for my NST. The problem is, I want it to be decoupled from any ebook reader applications. I want to stick to the stock B&N reader app that comes with the NST, so I don't want to use something like FBReader (or any other ebook reader app that tacks on an OPDS browser) to browse OPDS catalogs.
I'm essentially trying to replace the "Home" button on a stock NST with an OPDS browser, and otherwise make no changes. I'd like to do it in such a way that it does not confuse the user (someone who is non-technical) with multiple reading apps.
If no such app exists, (I can't find one in the market or google), is anyone out there interested in starting up such a project? I'm aware that FBReader for Android (github.com/geometer/FBReaderJ) is open source under the GPL , so maybe a fork that just breaks out the OPDS browser could be started up. I'm also aware that trook (code.google.com/p/nookapps/) is open source under the Apache 2.0 license, and maybe that will be easier to modify for the NST.
Again, this is all about being easy for a non-technical user who will probably be annoyed by two readers, and who would like to continue making purchases from B&N via their store on the NST.
For whatever reasons I've noticed the ad blocking feature/host file of PMR isn't effective anymore (no update in awhile) and Google has pulled apps that block ads due to advertiser complaints (shocker). This thread by BSDgeek_Jake has an answer for that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1916098
Try this for apps that were removed from Play: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189527
Just saving leg work for some people because I really hate advertising! So far it's effective.