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[froth]

I have a filter subscription for adblock, and it blocks ads great! But on slashdot, it doesn't seem to delete a container div or something cause the articles column is still stopping a fourth of the page from the right side (where the ads were). I can't seem to track down the culprit, can anyone take a look at it?

[Adblock Plus Fan]

What filter subscriptions do you use?

Perhaps you mean this problem:
?

Try this filter:

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slashdot.org##DIV.hidden

EDIT: this one does not seem to work....

[rick752]

You know Fan. For the first time, you actually have me stumped! Good job!

How did you find that and where on the page was it located? My tools showed nothing but an empty, undefined space there and I ALSO could not locate the culprit. Obviously I missed something that you could find.

ps: Is that hide a little too general there or do you think it is ok?

[Adblock Plus Fan]

Actually rick it did not work when I reloaded the page

I still have that problem, something is really weird about that page.

As for how I found it, I used the tree-view in EHH, I zoomed out as much as I could on the right sidebar and tried to find some DIV above it in the tree-structure and that Hidden attribute looked a bit interesting so I tried it out but it only worked immediately after. Reloading the page seems to reset everything.

[rick752]

It's just kind of goofy. There is really no space to remove there. I wonder what's doing that? It just kinda goes up and down on successive reloads ... weird!
???

[chewey]

Simple: In some cases, the first article has a fixed width so there is room for an ad. There is nothing ABP can do.

[rick752]

Simple: In some cases, the first article has a fixed width so there is room for an ad. There is nothing ABP can do.

In this case though, chewey, reloads of the SAME page gives you a different result. It also looks like the articles are enclosed in a fixed table anyway.

[chewey]

In this case though, chewey, reloads of the SAME page gives you a different result.

Sure it does. The appearance of that specific ad is more or less randomised. Try the
same with ABP switched off, you won't see that ad every time either.

Strangely enough, even without ABP, that space appears empty some of the times.

[froth]

Well I have those stupid slashboxes turned off, so the wasted space is really just unbearable. A full quarter of the screen is whitespace. Is there any way to get rid of that whole column? It's not just the first article that has a defined width, it must be all of them, or they're in a container. I can't track it down- can someone find whatever div is containing them?

[Stupid Head]

Is there any way to get rid of that whole column?

Use Stylish.

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@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("slashdot.org") {

/*** Fix spacing issue ***/

#art1, #art2, #slink1, #slink1 .comments, #slink2, #slink2 .comments {
  margin-right: auto !important;
}

#indexhead {
  padding-right: 0 !important;
}

#slashboxes {
  margin-top: auto !important;
}

/*** Remove right column ***/

#slashboxes {
  display: none !important;
}

#articles, #indexhead {
  margin-right: auto !important;
}

}

[froth]

Thank you!