Remove forum ad

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:22 am

Can anyone help me remove this ad, that appears as the last post on every topic of the forum?

Stupid Head · Post by **Stupid Head** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:09 am

I think that one is near impossible without better CSS 3 support in Gecko. Anyone else agree or disagree?

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:30 am

I managed to remove the ad with RIP:

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//table[@cellspacing='1' and @class='ipbtable' and contains(.,'Softpedia Ad')]

But I was hoping to do this with ABP if possible... Thanks anyway.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:53 pm

No, this post is almost indistinguishable from a regular forum post. I don't think there is much we can do here.

@Stupid Head: How is CSS3 going to help?

Stupid Head · Post by **Stupid Head** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:51 pm

Last-of-type selector. I think KHTML is the only engine that supports it.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:39 am

You mean you would hide the last post in each thread? I guess that would work...

burebista · Post by **burebista** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:58 pm

Greasemonkey and a script as they told me here.

Flawless until now.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:31 am

I've the same broad issue with a first post bot on the somethingawful forums here. The bot even uses a variety of names to avoid blocking.

The one handle which seperates the bot from the others is it has a "<tr style="background:#eef2ee">" part to it, but beyond that, nothing.

If worth anything, the names used by the bot are:

FirstPostBot
Junkbot
HayGuysBot
Bob
Blingbot 2.0
LOLLERTRON
FYADBOT
Harry Botzack
ExciteBot 4000
Household Appliance
Sh*t Poster <- not censored in the actual forums

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers![/list][/url]

Stupid Head · Post by **Stupid Head** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:09 am

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forums.somethingawful.com###thread>table:not([id])

sheepy · Post by **sheepy** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:17 am

I took a look at sofepedia. While we can't hide the whole row, it's possible to hide the ad post body by

softpedia.com#div(id=post-0)

Mad-Max · Post by **Mad-Max** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:19 am

If anyone is using Ad Muncher you can remove it with:

Remove tables with text:
<table class="ipbtable"*>softpedia ad<