I have it installed but I don't know what I'm doing. When I click the
adblock item on the status bar I get a long list. Do I have to click on
each of those each time I run the program. That can't be it. I seem to
be clicking the tab on individual ads all the time. I'm sure this is
simple but I don't get it yet.
Thanks.
Howie

Howard wrote:
> I have it installed but I don't know what I'm doing. When I click the
> adblock item on the status bar I get a long list. Do I have to click on
> each of those each time I run the program. That can't be it. I seem to
> be clicking the tab on individual ads all the time. I'm sure this is
> simple but I don't get it yet.
> Thanks.
> Howie
> 

Hi Howie,

Make sure that you have the most recent edition of Firefox installed. 
For adblock you should see a small opaque tab at the top of the ad. 
Click it and you should see just one long URL. That's the URL to block. 
  What I usually do is remove the specifics of the ad sender by deleting 
most of the address, up to the specific server folder that usually is 
named something like "/ad" by placing a "*" wildcard in place of the 
long address string.  This takes care of all of the various ads sent 
from that particular server.

If there is no "adblock" tab you can try click/holding (or right click) 
which hopefully (it doesn't appear sometimes) shows "adblock" on the 
list (on the bottom).  This will take you to the same place.  To review 
all of the ads blocked tools/adblock will take you to them.

Adblock retains all of the URL's and there is no need to re-enter all of 
them each time.  It's really nice to read the news without all of that 
garbage in your face.

Good luck,

Karen

Karen wrote:
<< Make sure that you have the most recent edition of Firefox installed.  >>

This is off-subject, but a while back I stumbled onto a [supposedly]
customized version of Firefox that was "optimized" for g4 processors. I
believe it was titled "Firefox 1.0+". But I didn't save the URL for the site
that had it posted.

Can anyone "point the way" towards finding the g4-optimized version of Firefox again?

Thanks,
- John

Hk Karen, I couldn't quite follow. You mean for each ad to click on it.
isn't there some general way to exclude all ads? When I click on
"Adblock" at the bottom of the whole window, I get a long list and
don't know what to do with it.
'Thanks.
Howie

Howard <Howard.Wettstein@ucr.edu> wrote:

>Hk Karen, I couldn't quite follow. You mean for each ad to click on it.
>isn't there some general way to exclude all ads? When I click on

All adds are different, so there is no way around blocking each ad once.
As already mentioned in this thread, you can edit the ad URL to get a
kind of generic URL for this specific ad server so the longer you use
AdBlock, the fewer ads you see.

>"Adblock" at the bottom of the whole window, I get a long list and
>don't know what to do with it.

Then just ignore it for the moment :-) It gives you a list of all the
URLs referenced in the current web page and allows you to block some
of them. Be careful, you can easily block non-add content that way.

Gruss, Patrick

-- 
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
resemble a nail.
        -- Abraham Maslow

pse.usenet.200503@patom.ch (Patrick Seemann) writes:
> Howard <Howard.Wettstein@ucr.edu> wrote:
> 
> >Hk Karen, I couldn't quite follow. You mean for each ad to click on it.
> >isn't there some general way to exclude all ads? When I click on
> 
> All adds are different, so there is no way around blocking each ad once.
> As already mentioned in this thread, you can edit the ad URL to get a
> kind of generic URL for this specific ad server so the longer you use
> AdBlock, the fewer ads you see.

What that means, for example, is something like this:

You go to some site and there's an annoying ad.
Either right-click on the ad or click on the AdBlock tag.
You see that AdBlock offers up the URL, which looks like
this:
  http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/cars/[more various random crap]

If you say "ok" right then and there, it'll block that
specific ad because when it goes to block in the future,
it'll look for that full URL - *including* the various
random-looking crap.

What you really want to do is block *everything* from
ad.doubleclick.net, so you need to erase everything to
the right of it:
  http://ad.doubleclick.net/
and *then* click "ok".  You could even go a step further
and block everything from every subdomain of doubleclick
by changing it to:
  http://*.doubleclick.net/

After that, you'll never see any ads from doubleclick
again on that site or any other site you visit.

> >"Adblock" at the bottom of the whole window, I get a long list and
> >don't know what to do with it.
> 
> Then just ignore it for the moment :-) It gives you a list of all the
> URLs referenced in the current web page and allows you to block some
> of them. Be careful, you can easily block non-add content that way.

Of course, that list also lets you ad blocking for lots
of additional annoying stuff - scripts, iframes, flash
images, etc - things which you cannot right-click on in
the main window in order to get their URLs.  Very powerful
tool - powerful and dangerous.  Use with care.  Wear your
safety goggles.

[just picking on doubleclick, btw.  there are lots of
 other advertisement servers out there and they're not
 particularly worse than the others.  Just an easy
 example, URL pulled from a cars.com page.]



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In article <ec4uh2-g52.ln1@ID-86204.user.uni-berlin.de>,
 pse.usenet.200503@patom.ch (Patrick Seemann) wrote:

> Howard <Howard.Wettstein@ucr.edu> wrote:
> 
> >Hk Karen, I couldn't quite follow. You mean for each ad to click on 
> >it. isn't there some general way to exclude all ads? When I click on
> 
> All adds are different, so there is no way around blocking each ad 
> once.

Or you can block most ads by importing a set of prefab Adblock filters 
like Filterset.G (go to <http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/> 
and click on "-instructions.txt".

-- 
Dave