Help with dimmed overlays and redirect ads

[Megan]

I have two issues I need help with.


1. Dimmed overlays

If you go to a site like "www.zdnn.com", you'll get presented every now and then with a dimmed overlay (like tinted glass covering the page), and a box asking you if you want to join as a member.

If I set adblock to kill that box, it won't appear, but the dimmed overlay still shows up. And now, without the box, you have no way to cancel it.


2. Redirect Ads

If you go to a site like "www.zdnet.com", you'll often get a redirect ad, where you get sent to a full page ad with one of those "click here to skip this ad and continue to the website" links.



How do you deal with issues like that? Is that something AdBlock can handle? Or is something like Greasemonkey necessary to fix those issues?

[fanboy]

I didn't see anything obvious, it just re-direct's you to zdnet.com, no popups I could see

[username0]

Adblock handles them fine. Use Element Hiding Helper to find the DIV responsible. Examples:

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webmd.com###webmd-overlay-backdrop
###fsr_modalOverlay
spellchecker.net###overlay-top
###popup_overlay
buy.com##.blockOverlay
buy.com##.blockUI
##DIV#interstitialMask

[username0]

I'd like a subscription that blocks overlays, incidentally, but regular subscriptions don't seem to handle them.

As for the redirects, yes you need greasemonkey or something like it.