Can ABP (or Easylist) be used to see a site's ad servers?

sm8000 · Post by **sm8000** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:16 pm

I need to make sure ad servers used at 411.com are not blocked for a client. Is there anyway I can see what ad servers/domains a website uses?

helping ghost · Post by **helping ghost** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:20 pm

I think you are looking for http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_basics#disable

sm8000 · Post by **sm8000** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:24 pm

Not quite what I need. The clients don't use FireFox and installation is not an option. What I need is a tool that will tell me what ad servers/domains a given website uses. Someone at another forum mentioned ABP with Easylist, but now I'm not sure they interpreted my needs correctly.

jamieplucinski · Post by **jamieplucinski** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:31 pm

From what I gathered by your posts you want to find out what advertising servers a site is using. If this is the case then in stall AdBlock Plus, then once it's installed visit a site and click the ABP logo. This will open a list at the bottom of the window and display all elements that are loaded on a page, you can then use the search box or read the list to determine what is coming from where.

If you see doubleclick, adbrite, or googlesyndication in the list then those are just a few advertising servers to look out for.

Your best bet would be to install one of the many subscriptions, out there and do the same as above, but look for items listed in red, this are, more often than not, the sites used by advertisers that you are looking for.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:43 am

@sm8000:

Oh ... THAT'S what you were trying to ask on the EasyList Forum. Sorry I didn't really pick up on that.

Jamie's suggestion is probably the best one. There is no way to really tell who is serving what unless you actually visit the site and see what is NOT part of that domain in ABP's 'blockable items' list (the best clue)

sm8000 · Post by **sm8000** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:57 am

Thanks guys. ContentProtect Pro issues a popup saying what is being blocked, and we were adding ad servers as we encountered them but it was starting to get overwhelming. It seems to have calmed down now but in future I will give your idea a try. Thanks very much again!