Getting rid of ads that follow you down the page

The Los Angeles Times web site has moveable advertisements. When you scroll down the
page, reading a long article, the ads down move with the scrolling. So you can't hid
them and their movement catches your eyes which makes it really hard to concentrate on
the article.

I'm using NoFlash but it doesn't stop many animated ads, and especially doesn't keep
these ads from moving.
Is there anything available that will work?

John

 

http://www.mozilla.org

 

What browser are you using? If IE, you could use SlimBrowser,
as I do, which has download control and content filter, amongst
many other things; you could also use an alternative browser
like Mozilla FireFox.

SlimBrowser
http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/

Mozilla Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

 

Forgot to mention I was using IE 6. I'll take a look at SlimBrowser, that's for the
ideas.

John

 

Taking a moment's reflection, jbclem1 mused:
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| Is there anything available that will work?

I combed through www.latimes.com with my ad blocker turned off ... and I
didn't run into any of ads like you describe. Is there a particular article
you could post a link for that has them?

 

Are they Java / JavaScript ads? If you look at the page code you can
figure it out and know what to block.

A proxy server , by blocking ad urls? Maybe something like Outpost
Firewall which has ad / active content blocking.

Me

 

Take a look at this link. It's from the front page, real estate section, article on a
home bought by the new Lakers coach. The movable ad is on the right side of the page.

http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/hotprop/la-re-hotprop10oct10,1,7343877.stor
y?coll=la-home-realestate

 

I don't know how to find the page code. When I put the cursor over the moeable ad, the
ad changes to a fixed a with some animation. There is no change in the address line,
nothing in the status line at the bottom of the screen. I can check the properties of
the fixed ad, it used Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and the URL address indicates it's a
..gif file. But this is for the fixed ad, there aren't any clues, that I can see, about
the moveable ad. I'm using IE 6.

John

 

X-No-Archive: Yes

That helps.


<snip>

Me

 

Although it's registered users only, and the can't access this page
doesn't appear to have a moving ad. SO the page you gave the URL for is
not accessable. That's lowering security on Mozill / IE and turning off
ad blocking or FW for 15 seconds.
<snip>

Me

 

Stop reading the Los Angeles Times

Franz

 

I would suggest spywareblaster,
where you have the option to block flash advertisments.
click on TOOLS and then click on FLASH KILLER.
then at the bottom click |=| DISABLE AND LOCK MACROMEDIA FLASH...
i never tried it myself but tell me if it helped you.

 

Two options:

Easiest:
Use a HOSTS file to block the adserver IPs.

More difficult, but better:
Use an HTTP proxy such as The Proxomitron or Privoxy and filter the
ActiveX/javascript causing the ads. I use The Proxomitron, and it has
some robust built-in filters, several support pages with downloadable
filter sets, and a support forum. I haven't used Privoxy, but have heard
good things about it.

Aside:
It is strongly recommended that you ditch IE and use a more secure
browser such as Mozilla, Firefox, or Opera. Both solutions listed above
will work with any browser also.

Links:
HOSTS
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://webpages.charter.net/hpguru/hosts/hosts.html

The Proxomitron
http://proxomitron.info/index.html
http://duke.usask.ca/~macphed/prox/
http://www.xs4all.nl/~vsetten/prox/

Privoxy
http://www.privoxy.org/

HTH,

 

Taking a moment's reflection, jbclem1 mused:
|
| Take a look at this link. It's from the front page, real estate section,
| article on a home bought by the new Lakers coach. The movable ad is on
| the right side of the page.
|
|
http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/hotprop/la-re-hotprop10oct10,1,7343877.stor
| y?coll=la-home-realestate

Hmm, I went to the page, but no moving ad. I disabled Ad-Shield (the
blocker I use), and still nothing. On the right side, I have an ad for
Cars.com, Pardee Homes, and Career Education ... none of which move when I
scroll down the article. I wonder if a simple browser setting is different
which is blocking the moving ad ...