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Yet another obnoxious link shortener issue.. It used to work fine, but now it detects ABP and triples the wait time (Your adblocker gets Ninja another meditation lesson). I use chrome so I cant bring up a blocked elements window to see what it's keying on.

Also can someone figure out how to block the popunders that shorte.st and linkshrink.net generate when you click "Skip this ad"? 80% of them seem to be virus infected where they pop up the unclosable dialog box and have the robot voice telling you your computer is infected and call a scam number to let them steal your credit card. I've blocked the redirect roulette using the hosts file, but it doesnt actually stop them from opening the new tabs. The earliest I've been able to stop them and grab the url is at http://data.lockscalecompare.com/{random guid} for shorte.st and http://data.shipthankrecognizing.info/{random guid} for linkshrink.net

Thanks

Hi,
add: Adsbypasser can help you https://github.com/adsbypasser/adsbypasser#adsbypasser

Oh that TM extension is awesome! It works great, thanks!!!

For those who do not want to use a third party app, here is what stopped the pop-unders for me, for linkshrink. I don't use shorte.st often so dunno about it.

Based on the nearly identical content between the two I'd say something similar should work for shorte.st. But what impressed me about that add-on is that it not only blocks the popunders, but it cancels the delay and forwards you to the destination immediately. That's worth its weight in gold right there! It works on the entire redirect matrix that the sites I frequent use, including adf.ly, linkshrink.net, shorte.st, and ouo.io.

Ok that Adsbypasser script has been working really well for me.. Thank you so much for that!

It got me to thinking though, is there a similar script that I could load that will block those fucking annoying Java survey/feedback/newsletter signup popups that it seems EVERY site uses nowadays? You know, the ones that wait until the page completely loads and as soon as you move the mouse it dims and covers the entire window? I don't know how to word it to search, because all I keep getting is scripts to bypass the monetizing survey locks on file sharing sites (the ones that make you spend 20 minutes filling things out and then never give you credit anyway) - and that's not what these are.

just post here example pages with the ads you are talking about

also, for the annoyances on sites you could subscribe fanboy's annoyances list from http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

mapx wrote:just post here example pages with the ads you are talking about

also, for the annoyances on sites you could subscribe fanboy's annoyances list from http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

I honestly can only give you one right this second, because it's the last page I was at that annoyed me and I don't feel like clearing my cache to go hunting for others.. http://www.sparkplugs.co.uk/iridium-spark-plugs
Here's another one I found while searching for a blocking script.. http://www.anzaq.com/2013/02/how-to-bypass-survey.html

But that's the kind I'm talking about, you MUST have come across them before lol! They have no requirements, and can be closed with an X, but what makes them really annoying is they have a delay, so you start reading then it interrupts you. AFAIK they're usually first party scripts so ABP cant really do anything about them without breaking the site - but they must have something in common that a tampermonkey script could key onto and knock them out.

add this filter

mapx wrote:add this filter

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||sparkplugs.co.uk/skin/frontend/base/default/js/popup/

Yeah see the thing is, the sites cookie your computer so it doesn't hit you again for a while (could be a day, could be a week), and it's really obnoxious to have to filter it manually for every single site.. Like that particular site I'll probably never go to again, it's just something I clicked while searching. That's why I'm asking if there's a Monkey script that just kills it based on the Java call, and isn't site-specific..

- the filter above remove the newsletter thing, just add it (to test it just clear the cookies for that site)
- there is no general script
- add also the list I indicated above ==> fanboy's annoyances list