Filtering ads in RSS feeds?

[sidki3003]

(Jan. 14, 2009 04:13 AM)eclipse Wrote:  1) Sidki's set doesn't filter XML "out of the box" right?

Right.

Quote:2) After enabling this filter why doesn't kick in some of the general ad removers?

The general ad removers are restricted to $TYPE(htm) and $TYPE(js), one of the major reasons why this config isn't slow.

To have them kick in you'd need to change XML content-types to text/html. Besides other major disadvantages this would rarely help because XML uses different tags than HTML (except for application/xhtml+xml which is handled by the config).

To successfully filter feeds, you'd need to write specific filters, which exclusively kick in for XML content-types. There's a bunch of them, use an appropriate $IHDR(Content-Type:..) expression.

Quote:3) AND, everything between <div class="feedflare"> * </div> isn't needed. Can't get this to work properly.


Example RSS feeds with googleadservices:
http://feeds.urbandictionary.com/UrbanWordOfTheDay
http://arstechnica.com/index.rssx

I loaded both feeds with Firefox. I didn't see any ads, and the source didn't contain any HTML tags.

Last time i checked if XML filtering is worthwhile is ~18 months ago. Ads were rare, and all ads i saw were pushed as images.

If feed ads are an issue now, i'd suggest that you and others use this very thread to collect example links for ad'ish feeds. Implementing feed filtering reliably would require a lot of examples! Dozens!