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Altering IFrame attributes from within the IFrame source. Is it possible?

On my computer, I'm using a custom adblock based on HOSTS redirection (so I can have adblock in Chrome). I'm running IIS on my machine, so I have a custom blank 404 error that displays when an iframe-based ad is displayed on a page. I've modified my 404 error to inherit its background color from its parent so that the ad doesn't look o...

Can a Greasemonkey script override AdBlock filters?

I have a Greasemonkey script that is trying to access an HTML element that Adblock is disabling. Is it possible to create a workaround with the Greasemonkey script to prevent conflicts with the Adblock plugin? I'm open to any ideas, however changing the script to avoid the Adblock element is not a solution at this time. Additional Info...

How would you go about designing an 'ad-blocker' for streaming radio?

I can't stand listening to conventional radio because I can't stand listening to ads. (The same goes for TV, where commercials are 200% louder than what you are trying to watch.) Unfortunately, my wife needs to listen to the radio while getting ready in the morning. I was thinking, we have plugins to block ads in our web browsers, why...

Is there anything like AdBlock for Internet Explorer 8?

I am using IE8 quite long and that is only thing from Firefox that I am missing. ...

Using Adblock Plus subscriptions to remove ads from downloaded pages

Hi! I'd like to use the adblosck plus subscriptions to remove ads from the pages I'm about to scrap. Have anyone used such approach? What is the performance of such solution? What is the algorithm used by the extension itself? ...

How would you adblock using Python?

I'm slowly building a web browser in PyQt4 and like the speed i'm getting out of it. However, I want to combine easylist.txt with it. I believe adblock uses this to block http requests by the browser. How would you go about it using python/PyQt4? [edit1] Ok. I think i've setup Privoxy. I haven't setup any additional filters and it seem...

Detecting AdBlocking software?

I was recently visiting a site and noticed that the page had a section that said it noticed that I was using AdBlocking software and could I kindly turn it off to help support a small site like that. I was just wondering how you would do that? Would it be best done client-side or server-side? ...

Block all content on a web page for people using an Adblock-type browser add-on/extension?

I wish to block ALL my content from any users using an ad-blocking browser extension (ie. Adblock Plus for Firefox, Adthwart for Chrome). How can I acheive this? Is there a server-side solution? Client-side? Edit 1 This question regards the detection of ad-blocking browser extensions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1185067/detec...

Prevent Adblock Users from Accessing Website?

Im one of the Users who use Adblock. And i love it. That question could be interesting for all of us. Once i visited a german developer website, I just saw a jquery fancybox, on that box there was a Message something like this: "You are using Adblock, this site is financed with ads. If you want be able to see the content deactivate Adb...

Converting adblock detecting javascript to jQuery

I got this ad blocking code from http://adblockdetector.com/ (function () { var _ab = false; var _af = undefined; var _am = undefined; function detect_ab() { _af = document.createElement("IFRAME"); _am = document.createElement("IMG"); _af.id = '_afd'; _af.src = '/adimages/'; _af.style.display = 'block'; _af.styl...

how to do an adblock for UIWebview?

Although apple banned flash which disabled a lot of ad. I still like a adblock like functionality for browser. I noticed that adblock do so by checking all load request's url. Is that possible with UIWebview? Any suggestions are well come Thanks ...

Does AdBlock change how Chrome renders pages?

I'm designing/building a site, and like a good little developer I've been keeping an eye on how things render in all the popular browsers - the current versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari (for Windows) and Chrome, and Internet Explorer (8, not the 9 preview). Anyway, everything looked absolutely fine in Chrome to me, but a friend of min...

How does adblock regex work?

Here I found adblock regex explanation. I wish to block all images containing "bbelements" in their url, but neither "bbelements" nor "*bbelements*" worked for me. Surely it must be something very trivial, but I can't figure it out. So how to hide images with bbelements in their url? ...