Need help with an Exception Rule...

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:05 pm

I see now ... this is a problem of having the "Check banner links" option on in ABP. The image is not *adlog* but the link is.

Simply turn off "Check banner links" in ABP's 'Options' and all should be well. I recommend not to use that option.

ContendeR · Post by **ContendeR** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:24 pm

rick752 wrote:I see now ... this is a problem of having the "Check banner links" option on in ABP. The image is not *adlog* but the link is.

Simply turn off "Check banner links" in ABP's 'Options' and all should be well. I recommend not to use that option.

You Da Man!

I appreciate all your help. Are element filters different as far as regex/wildcarding goes?

What did the ^ represent in

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gametrailers.com#div(id^=ad_)

I also have two element filters for Live Mail

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mail.live.com#DIV(id=cRadAdsToday)
mail.live.com#DIV(id^=RadAd_)

Couldn't they be edited into one(1) filter rather than two(2) using the RadAd as the constant between the two?

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:38 pm

ContendeR wrote:
rick752 wrote:I see now ... this is a problem of having the "Check banner links" option on in ABP. The image is not *adlog* but the link is.

Simply turn off "Check banner links" in ABP's 'Options' and all should be well. I recommend not to use that option.
You Da Man!

I appreciate all your help. Are element filters different as far as regex/wildcarding goes?

Yes, the syntax is different (elements are based on CSS rules) .. and they only 'hide' items, they do not block at the source. They are still downloaded.

What did the ^ represent in
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gametrailers.com#div(id^=ad_)

Using = means an exact match.
Using ^= means 'begins with'
Using $= means 'ends with'
Using *= means it is anywhere within the element

I also have two element filters for Live Mail
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mail.live.com#DIV(id=cRadAdsToday)
mail.live.com#DIV(id^=RadAd_)
Couldn't they be edited into one(1) filter rather than two(2) using the RadAd as the constant between the two?

Yes, you could use:

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mail.live.com#div(id*=RadAd)

to combine them.

ContendeR · Post by **ContendeR** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:56 pm

Thank you for your help. Everything appears to be working the way I want it at the moment. ABP Rules!

mulder · Post by **mulder** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:02 am

Can someone please provide the complete code? I was lost halfway through the posts :\

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:22 am

mulder wrote:Can someone please provide the complete code? I was lost halfway through the posts :\

Edit***

To allow videos to play in gametrailers, you need to add this whitelist:

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@@http://www.gametrailers.com/player/

... sorry for the confusion. A lot of things were irrelevant to the original post because of my confusion between the 2 sites and other questions being asked

mulder · Post by **mulder** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:33 am

Oh, great. Thanks for your help :]

I have a question though, my filter has

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@@http://www.gametrailers.com/player/

as you can see in this picture, however, the ads on the top page are not blocked. The ads on the homepage are blocked just fine, but the ads on the player page don't get disabled.

Any solutions?

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:30 am

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gametrailers.com#*(ad_top)

mulder · Post by **mulder** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:23 am

rick752 wrote:
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gametrailers.com#*(ad_top)

Awesome. Thanks a lot!