Flash ads within Flash videos

[numan]

Does anyone know how to block these? Basically they're ads that run inside a Flash video at predetermined times. Youtube has started doing these, and sometimes I can fish out a specific flash url that blocks them, but there are some that seem deeply embedded in the videos that I can't seem to find urls for.

An example is this page on joystiq.com: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/19/just- ... -everyone/

There's an ad for Scion cars and then a thing with Samsung phones that come up during the video and I can't seem to block either without breaking the Viddler flash video.

[MonztA]

Try these filters:

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||fwmrm.net^*?$third-party,object_subrequest
@@||adm.fwmrm.net^$object_subrequest

But those video ads should already be covered by a subscription like EasyList or do you use your own filters?

[Erunno]

Do you get the ad each time you watch the video? I didn't experience any advertising with EasyList, that's why I'm asking.

[numan]

I've been using my own... maybe I should start using the subscriptions.

[Erunno]

I've been using my own... maybe I should start using the subscriptions.

The major subscriptions vacuum the Internet quite thoroughly nowadays since they've been around for some time. Not only that, they also avoid a lot of breakage which sometimes occur when blocking advertisement. Being an (recently promoted) EasyList author I'm unsurprisingly biased towards my own list but you'll find a more complete overview of your options here.

[numan]

Thanks guys, looks like the EasyList filters did the trick.