yahoo shortcuts (intellitxt clone) not blocked

[Hubird]

The following yahoo page has "yahoo shortcuts"(key words that are underlined in blue and popup crap when your mouse stops on them).

I am using EasyElement + EasyList, ABP Tracking Filter, fanboy-adblock-micro, fanboy-element-adblock. Hopefully a filter will be added for "yahoo shortcuts" to one of the previously mentioned filter subscriptions.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_ ... HGUYdH2ocA

[rick752]

That's something new. More annoying crap that pops up when you are reading with your mouse ... those broken blue underlines make the page look crappy too. Like you need to stop and search a word in every sentence when you are just trying to read an article? Some places just never learn what irritates users.

Now updated on EasyList.


They also have something similar in the headlines areas but that is not as bad as it at least gives you a pic and part of the story.

ps: Not sure how stable that block may be ... let me know if it doesn't hold up.

note: if you are using the EasyList + EasyElement COMBO subscription, it may take up to an hour for it to update. If they are separate subscriptions, the update change will be immediate

[Hubird]

Thanks works fine at the moment, will let you know if it changes. I think they must have a special team of people who's job it is to figure out new way to annoy people.

[rick752]

Yup. Thanx a lot, yahoo. You just gave users one more reason to install ABP.

[jamieplucinski]

Rich media as the monkier goes, rich media my ass, bandwidth and cpu eating ads are not smart. Banner ad blocking started because of annoying flashing ads, now we have videos trying to sell us crap we don't want, what could be more of a flashing ad than a 24 fps video?

[rick752]

.... bandwidth and cpu eating ads are not smart.

Whoever said that advertising is smart ... especially when it comes to the web? Web advertising thinks that the same model for tv can work here. Hell, it doesn't even work for tv anymore ... people can't wait to get their hands on tivo and dvr's.

And now they think that they can just 'force-cram' web pages with this crap? Sorry guys, that ad model doesn't fly here anymore.

[jamieplucinski]

.... bandwidth and cpu eating ads are not smart.

Whoever said that advertising is smart ... especially when it comes to the web? Web advertising thinks that the same model for tv can work here. Hell, it doesn't even work for tv anymore ... people can't wait to get their hands on tivo and dvr's.

And now they think that they can just 'force-cram' web pages with this crap? Sorry guys, that ad model doesn't fly here anymore.

Well a small gif takes up a hell of a lot less bandwidth than a streaming FLV video. None of it is smart, never has been, but this move to flash ads simply shows how much these industry experts know about the state of the web... very little, nay, anything.

Not knowing one's arse from one's elbow is an insult, in the online advertising industry it's an asset.

[fanboy]

The following yahoo page has "yahoo shortcuts"(key words that are underlined in blue and popup crap when your mouse stops on them).

I am using EasyElement + EasyList, ABP Tracking Filter, fanboy-adblock-micro, fanboy-element-adblock. Hopefully a filter will be added for "yahoo shortcuts" to one of the previously mentioned filter subscriptions.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_ ... HGUYdH2ocA

I've blocked Yahoo Shortcuts since August 25th 009B. Tho having all those lists enabled would slow your browsing down.

[rick752]

..... having all those lists enabled would slow your browsing down.

I agree.

Why have I never noticed those on yahoo news articles before? Has it been a month since I've read an article there?

[Hubird]

I've blocked Yahoo Shortcuts since August 25th 009B. Tho having all those lists enabled would slow your browsing down.

I was under the impression that I did not need to manually tell ABP to update the filter subscriptions, I use the PC and Internet on a daily basis and yet the "yahoo shortcuts" were not blocked (I'm guessing because my subscription was not up to date ??). Also I have not noticed any difference in my browsing speed, although this could be because I have always used a few lists.

I looked at the hits each for each filter in each of my subscriptions and compiled the following stats:

EasyElement+EasyList: About 20% of the filters have hits with #*(id^=adSpot) getting about 32000 hits

ABP Tracking Filter: About 40% of the filters have hits with .google-analytics. Getting about 2800 hits

fanboy-adblock-micro: About 17% of the filters have hits with /pagead getting about 965 hits

fanboy-element-adblock: About 45% of the filters have hits with #DIV(id^=adspot) getting about 18200 hits


Wouldn’t those percentages suggest that all my subscriptions are getting a decent amount of hits, and that it is not necessarily a bad idea to keep them all ?

[fanboy]

Hubird,

try the main filterlist,
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/fanboy- ... panded.txt rather the micro list (which is only a basic list)

[rick752]

@Hubird:

Having the hits divided like that does not mean that one is catching something that the other won't. It just means that one is blocking that string FIRST before the other.

There is really no order which string from which subscription will block something if they are similar. If the strings from each subscription are written EXACTLY the same, the strings are considered one and the same and BOTH will receive the hit.

You should really just go with either Fanboy's subscriptions or mine and see how that goes. You have a lot of unnecessary strings between the two that are just wasting space and processing time.

I would chose subscription(s) that best suite your geographical location and language. The ABP Tracking filter can still be used with anything because it is a unique subscription.

[Hubird]

@rick752

Thanks for clearing that up.