Flash ads on Yahoo.com

[Ron360]

How do you block flash based ads on Yahoo. With flash ads i cant seem to find the information i need to block the ad not only once but from reappearing every time I open my yahoo home page.


Any help would be appreciated

Ron360

[Adblock Plus Fan]

Strangely I cannot see any flash ads.

But the easiest way around this problem would be to install a filter list like Easylist: http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

If you want an explanation why the flash tab is not always visible read Wladimir's post here: http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 0742#10742

The easiest way to look for a Frame is to use the search bar in the Open Blockable Items Menu(Ctrl+Shift+B). Just write Frame in that search bar.

to block the ad not only once but from reappearing every time I open my yahoo home page.

This is another issue that does not have anything to do with flash.
You need to learn how to use wildcards.

Wildcard = *

So when an ad has an address like this: http://ad.important-site.com/images/adv ... 345234.jpg

You should never block the wholes address. You might figure out that '432643652346253642345234' is a random number and that they have billion other ads to replace it if you block just that one.
The trick is to use wildcard. So something like this code:

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http://ad.*

or this code

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*/advertise/*

or maybe even a code like this:

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http://ad.*/advertise/*

is the way to go. Any of the three above will block the http://ad.important-site.com/images/adv ... 345234.jpg example I made.