DeviantArt Gallery Square Ad

[Infin8monkeys]

Hey. I see this topic has come up in threads before, but does not seem to have been fully addressed. On deviantArt, there is an annoying square ad that comes up on the right-hand side of gallery pages (example: http://branca.deviantart.com/gallery/#_featured--2)

The ad image itself seems to be blocked by EasyList. However, a grey frame is in its place (http://*.deviantart.com/global/difi/). If I block this frame, I can then use Element Hiding Helper to block the span and the div it occupies. Then the galleries can be displayed nicely without the interruption of the ugly ad square. However, this causes gallery pages after Page 1 not to load the artworks at all, and the Message Center to not accept updates (marking messages as read never saves, etc).

Note that I do NOT use Filterset.G (discussion of which completely derailed this topic: http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2492)

I read another post (http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2369) which explains that the frame I blocked is actually important to the functionality of deviantArt. I added it to my exceptions list. Now deviantArt works properly, displaying gallery pages and saving changes to the message center. However, the grey box comes back and floats on top of the artwork of the gallery pages. Is there any way to eliminate or move this box without breaking deviantArt?

[Adblock Plus Fan]

You could try these rules:

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deviantart.com#IFRAME(class=hidoframe)

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deviantart.com##DIV.artzone:last-child > DIV.stream:first-child > DIV[style^="float: right; position: relative; width:"]:first-child

But you should personally check if these rules block stuff they aren't supposed to in other sections of deviantart.
(I don't have much time to check for false positives)

[Zebitty]

I too am getting this annoying grey box floating above the thumbnails in galleries.

I used to tolerate the ads on deviantART, but lately they have been adding flashing adds or worse, videos (with annoying audio) that play the moment the page loads. I don't mind looking at ads to support websites I like but I feel quite justified blocking ads that have video and/or blaring audio that plays each time a page loads.

Here is a screenie of the offending 'grey box'



This page can be found here --> http://j-estacado.deviantart.com/gallery/#_featured--2

If anyone has any idea how to get adblocker to remove this grey box so I can see the gallery properly, I'd be a very happy camper indeed.

I had the 'gallery not loading problem' and started using the 'easylist' which fixed that problem, but this grey box thing still persists.

I tried the rules in the previous reply, but they didnt seem to make much difference. I am new to this sort of thing so perhaps someone might be able to give some instructions I can follow to get this to work ??

Thanks in advance

Z.

[Hubird]

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|http://j-estacado.deviantart.com/global/difi/$subdocument

Seem to do the trick...

[fanboy]

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deviantart.com#DIV(class=hidoframe)

[Zebitty]

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|http://j-estacado.deviantart.com/global/difi/$subdocument

Seem to do the trick...

Thanks for the reply, but won't that only work for j-estacado's deviantART page? If I wanted to make that statment more general for _any_ artists page on DeviantART, what should it be changed to?

Also, where does this go in ABP? Do I just plug it in as a "New Filter" ? or if somewhere else, where?

Thanks in advance.
Z.

[Zebitty]

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deviantart.com#DIV(class=hidoframe)

Tested and appears to be working .. GOLD! You sir, are a legend.

Thanks!

[Ares2]

Added

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deviantart.com##div[class~="hidoframe"]

to EasyList.