Claudio Santambrogio

bbc ads

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 8:07:12 PM

As of today BBC News serves ads "when viewed from outside the UK." You don't like ads on a serious news site? But you are a regular BBC News reader? A fix is simple: create a UserCSS file for http://news.bbc.co.uk/ with the following content:

#ad1, #ad2, #ad3, #ad4, #ad5, #ad6, #ad7, #ad8, #ad9 {
  display: none !important;
}

And go back to reading your news undisturbed.

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Comments

Dan Alexandrudantesoft # Wednesday, November 7, 2007 7:31:00 AM

I don't see them, other than

<div id="ad1" class="ad1"></div>

Apparenty AdConfigurator() doesn't do anything yet. Link?

Claudio Santambrogiocsant # Wednesday, November 7, 2007 8:42:04 AM

You must have javascript disabled

Dan Alexandrudantesoft # Wednesday, November 7, 2007 8:52:26 AM

Not on this site. Apparently the URL filter for http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/adx/bbccom.live.site.news/ kicked in

Claudio Santambrogiocsant # Wednesday, November 7, 2007 8:56:20 AM

Dan Alexandrudantesoft # Wednesday, November 7, 2007 8:57:03 AM

So other than UserCSS, custom JS preferences, URL filter, UserJS, what can be done about it ?

dapxin # Tuesday, January 5, 2010 4:14:27 AM

thx for this.