Re: Blocking Gmail ads
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:03:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote:
> I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm
> browsing the Octave mailing lists. That's quite obnoxious. It looks
> like it's tricky to block Google ads, since it looks like Google can
> detect when you're using Adblock and serves you ads in <tables>
> instead, making them harder to block.
>
> Can anyone suggest a fix? I only use Gmail for mailing lists nowadays,
> and have moved my personal email to a server in an undisclosed
> location in a remote island... ;-)
>
> I'd be happy with a solution that either blocks all Gmail ads or a
> better method to browse the 14 mailing lists I'm currently subscribed
> to, many of them high-volume. I'm beginning to miss Usenet.
I do all my web browsing through privoxy (apt-cache show privoxy).
My adblock.action file, which does a good job of blocking lots of ads,
including gmail's, is pasted below. It also blocks a lot of web bugs and
traffic trackers. It isn't perfect, but it vastly improves my web browsing
experience.
> - Jordi G. H.
--Greg
{+block }
.247realmedia.com
.2o7.net
.adbasket.net
.adbrite.com
.adbureau.net
.adknowledge.com
.adlegend.com
.adnetwork.com
.adroll.com
.adserver.com
.adserver.yahoo.com
.adspeed.net
.adsrevenue.net
.adtech.de
.advertising.com
.afy11.com
.atdmt.com
.backbeatmedia.com
.bannerspace.com
blcadserv.shinycomics.com
blogads.com
.blogads.com
stocker.bonnint.net
.burstmedia.com
.burstnet.com
.casalemedia.com
.chitika.net
.claxonmedia.com
.clickforensics.com
.contextweb.com
.coremetrics.com
.doubleclick.net
.esomniture.com
.falkag.net
.fastclick.net
.google-analytics.com
.googlerank.info
.googlesyndication.com
.hitbox.com
.humanclick.com
.indieclick.com
.industrybrains.com
.intellitxt.com
.interclick.com
.interclick.net
.keenmercial.com
gavzad.keenspot.com
merv.keenspot.com
www.keenspot.com/premium*
.kontera.com
.lostfrog.com
.marketwatch.com
.maxserving.com
.mediaplex.com
.overture.com
.paypopup.com
.pheedo.com
.pointroll.com
.primaryads.com
.projectwonderful.com
publish.blanklabelcomics.com
.quantserve.com
.ru4.com
.edge.ru4.com
http.edge.ru4.com
.sitemeter.com
.smarttargetting.co.uk
spa.snap.com
.specificmedia.com
.statcounter.com
.tacoda.net
.textads.biz
syndication.thedailywtf.com
.trackalyzer.com
.trafficmp.com
.tribalfusion.com
.ttzmedia.com
.ugamsolutions.net
.unicast.com
.valueclick.com
.vibrantmedia.com
.web-stat.com
.xplusone.com
.yceml.net
.yieldmanager.com
.zedo.com
ss1.zedo.com
ad.
ad1.
ad2.
adremote.
adsremote.
ads.
ads1.
ads2.
adserv.
adserver.
adv.
advert.
banner.
banners.
metrics.
servedby.
stats.
stats1.
stats2.
webad.
webads.
.facebook.com/beacon/
feeds.feedburner.com/~a/
www.davidszondy.com/images/shop.gif
/(.*/)?adv/.*
/(.*/)?ads/
/(.*/)?adx/.*
/(.*/)?adserver/.*
/(.*/)?banners/.*
/(.*/)?phpAdsNew/.*
/(.*/)?RealMedia/.*
/(.*/)?dealtime_iframe.php\?.*
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