My Personal Ad Blocking CSS
Sunday, 17. February 2008, 05:20:08
This is the style I use in conjuntion with My Ad Blocking urlfilter.ini to remove "white space'.
Step 1: Go here and find your User CSS directory.
Step 2: Save My Personal Ad Blocking CSS
Step 3: Restart Opera
Step 4: Select Ad Block: BH from the View > Styles menu.
OPTIONAL: Here's a button to call the button
Step 1: Go here and find your User CSS directory.
Step 2: Save My Personal Ad Blocking CSS
Step 3: Restart Opera
Step 4: Select Ad Block: BH from the View > Styles menu.
OPTIONAL: Here's a button to call the button
WIDGETIZE
LorenzoCelsi # 21. February 2008, 10:53
BleedingHeart # 21. February 2008, 11:42
Theres some debate regarding this and I've yet to see an official comment from Opera ASA but the tests I've done support this (Packet sniffing, cache monitoring).
Of course this varies depending on browser, Firefox for example simply hides the image/embed or at least that was the case when Stylish users were requesting Opera style CSS "blocking".
Of course for me the CSS blocks are used mainly to clean up containers left behind after I remove them using My Ad Blocking urlfilter.ini. So either way the CSS achieves what the urlfilter can't achieve on its own.
LorenzoCelsi # 21. February 2008, 12:29
1. empty your browser cache.
2. load a page with "CSS-blocked" objects.
3. see what is in the cache (of course you can't find containers, only images, JS external files, etc)
I don't know ANY way to tell the browser "do not load this object" via CSS. From what I know you can only change the "display" property.
To block objects you must use the "ini" file, otherwise it would not make sense to add the "block content" feature to Opera, which does not write any CSS for the obvious reason that would not block anything.
Same for Firefox, you need the ADBlockPlus extension to block objects from loading, using CSS you can only hide elements.
BleedingHeart # 21. February 2008, 12:36
This is done using the display property, I class this as a successful block.
This is not so much a CSS thing as a browser choice, your simple test and packect sniffing say Opera "blocks" using display:none.
The "block content" feature has been in Opera for a long time just without the shine, perhaps even longer than the custom CSS feature. To suggest Opera wouldn't add features if it meant duplication is certainly strange considering there are several ways to search (address bar, search bar, hotclick menu), several ways to call bookmarks (menu, panel, nicknames, speed dial) several ways to change settings (Preferences, opera:config, .ini file) and several ways to block content (urlfilter.ini, CSS, user JS, proxys).
LorenzoCelsi # 21. February 2008, 13:14
Adding "display:block" stops Opera to load the image.
That is weird in my opinion for serveral reasons but hey, thanks, I've learned something new today
I never tested the CSS blocking in depth because the ini file technique makes more sense in my opinion since it allows to use more "generic" filters, for example to block external JS files from loading and executing and/or the adservers as root, regardless what comes from there.
I never tried to mix the 2 things mostly because I am lazy and I find already annoying to debug the ini filter.
About Opera multiplicating features yes, you are right and I think it should be re-designed because on one side it allows the user to customize the browser more, on the other side it makes the browser a little cluttered.
Since we are speaking of Opera, I'm having problems with flash objects, it happens that Opera freezes for a while or even hangs when I load a page with things like youtube videos embedded.
Have you ever seen this behaviour?
BleedingHeart # 21. February 2008, 13:25
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On Linux I've seen too many problems with flash to mention, on Windows I've only experienced that when duplicate plugins are detected.
BleedingHeart # 5. March 2008, 05:54
Cleaned up a lot of news and torrent sites.
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tambovwolf # 25. June 2008, 16:25
I don't use .ini, since I am using hosts file for that and it applies to all the browsers, but style sheet is great for removing white spaces left on screen.
BleedingHeart # 29. August 2008, 10:25
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snf # 29. September 2008, 16:43
Thanks.
Very good.
It is possible to add
Block commercials links inside google search result page.
Thanks.
BleedingHeart # 29. September 2008, 17:52
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Anonymous # 16. March 2009, 13:03
adblock.css is blocking too much I think, some sites only load blank pages, I think you are blocking items that represent the entire page layout or am I missing something.
Anonymous # 16. March 2009, 20:21
Well first make sure its the css that is the problem (enable/disable) And then post the sites, I'll see what I can do. It is possible that its happening more and more sites are putting there entire content in div's etc with ID's and Classes such as adbanner etc etc.
espirates # 9. April 2009, 23:59
http://newyork.craigslist.org/rnr/
The navigation links up top disappear when Adblock is used. I looked at the html code and could not find anything that would be listed as an ad since they are just header links.
Any ideas ?
BleedingHeart # 10. April 2009, 00:26
espirates # 10. April 2009, 17:32