getting rid of subscription/sign up/scrolling ads?

[Psion]

Hey guys, does anyone know how to get rid of those annoying ads that show up on websites, like say, the LA times one? you know the type, the ones that say "subscribe to a year with us now for 14.99$!". the type that show up on the bottom of the screen, or worse, in the middle, and you have to click the tiny X in the corner to close and if you miss so help you god its taking you to their subscription page?

It's bothersome that adblock plus and noscript don't seem to block them, unless i block the entire website with noscript, in which case that sort of defeats the purpose. adblock+ seems to get pretty much all the other ads but that. Even unchecking "allow for some nonintrusive forms of advertisements" doesn't seem to help.

[RitzCracker]

I'm not tech savvy so I'm not sure if there is a way to write a general filter to block those kind of ads / banners across multiple websites but I do know it's possible to block specific ones. Just looking at the page source on LATimes, trb_bnn is used for that floating thing. I tried a custom filter ##.trb_bnn and it removed it.

[Psion]

"not tech savvy" they say, while finding where in an unholy mess of code that makes my eyes bleed what random string of gibberish produces the banner ad and its name, as well as knowing how to write the custom filter to block it.

im hoping for something a little less.... a lower level than "not tech savvy" <_<

[Scizor]

use chrome with add block plus and you can right click on adds and block them

[Psion]

i'm hoping for a non-chrome option. i don't really like their layout, and i'm a little hesitant about being even more dependent on our google overlords. im more of a firefox guy

[RitzCracker]

This is what I did to remove that thing.

1). Left-click on page.
2). Click on "Inspect element".
3). Click on top-left icon (looks like a mouse clicking a box).
4). Click on thing you want to remove on page (some text will get highlighted in the bottom-left window).
5). Look at element / attribute code (should also be able to find it using CTRL + U and CTRL + F).
6). Create filter in AdBlock.

To create a filter in AdBlock:

1). Click on AdBlock icon.
2). Click on "Filter Preferences".
2). Click on "Custom Filters" tab.
3). Click on "Add Filter".
4). Type in the text field.

I usually block things based on their class attribute so you type:

##.className

If multiple sites uses the same class name as the one you just blocked you'll need to create the filter specific to that site, but I'm lazy and just do the above. If we want to use your LATimes example then the filter I typed would just be

##.trb_bnn

I can understand if it's annoying to do this for every single thing you come across if you regularly browse sites you don't often go across but for me I usually only need to do it once and I'm done. I remember vaguely that you used to be able to just left-click and block elements but that somehow went away (maybe it was only for AdBlock and not AdBlock+).

[Psion]

ah, never knew about that highlighting option in the inspectelement. that definitely helps narrow things down. my only experience using it is hacking in a shadow achievement for cookie clicker. :D

[Niya]

Why not just get rid of adblock and use ublock origin instead? It (still) has the "block element" right click menu entry that automatically creates a blocking rule suggestion you can tinker with.
(and it doesn't have this "acceptable ads" BS...)

[orinthia]

Should put links to sites that have this problem; not everyone surfs the same sites you do. Ublock origin works exactly the same across different browsers, and I'm sure adblock plus does as well (between firefox, chrome, etc, they should have their features and usability the same).

Just tried out la time's website, visiting an article and scrolling down, never saw anything. I have noscript (enabled enough to see images and normal site function) and ublock origin on firefox (number of extra block lists enabled), along with anti-adblock killer greasemonkey script by reek.