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Reliably Blocking (Flash) Advertisements in Gecko-based Browsers
by noteworthy at 3:05 pm EDT, Jul 5, 2004

Advertisements on websites are annoying, often breaking up text and flashing to get your attention. To stop about 99% of the ads on the internet from even showing, add the following code to your userContent.css file:

I was finally sufficiently annoyed by obtrusive Flash advertisements at the Washington Post that I tracked down this information on hiding them from view.

In the course of working through this issue, I was also annoyed to find that the Washington Post inserts web bugs of the form

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/google/tracker.gif?794673

on every story that it feeds. It's not exactly clear what they're doing with it, and why it's called a Google tracker, because they show up even when you're not coming from Google News.

Blocking all types on Ads with Mozilla/Firefox
by Acidus at 10:29 pm EDT, Jul 5, 2004

noteworthy wrote:
] Advertisements on websites are annoying, often breaking up
] text and flashing to get your attention. To stop about 99% of
] the ads on the internet from even showing, add the following
] code to your userContent.css file:
]
]
] I was finally sufficiently annoyed by obtrusive Flash
] advertisements at the Washington Post that I tracked down this
] information on hiding them from view.

If you use Mozilla/Firebird, the adblock plugin (http://adblock.mozdev.org/) is awesome. Unlike the standard "Don't show images from this server" you enter in URL's with wildcards, and Adblock can either render white space in place on any match, or remove it from being rendered (and thus not taking up any space).

This blocks ALL offending content, images/Flash/Java, everything

Ie:
*.doubleclick.*
*.fastclick.*
*/ads/*
*/ads.*