Filtering ads in RSS feeds?

[sidki3003]

(Jan. 14, 2009 07:50 PM)eclipse Wrote:  Do the escaped/unescaped characters have to do something with the ads being displayed/ not displayed?

Well, apparently readers that feature a threaded mode unescape that code. Nonetheless, it always arrives escaped.

Quote:On the instances in wich they don't appear (3) is because the file moved! If you try to follow the link you'll get a "410 Gone" error. I hope they keep it this way (malfunctioning!)

If that's fine for you, and as long as Google, who acquired FeedBurner, keeps sticking to ad banners, why not skip the entire XML filtering business altogether, and do what lnminente suggested (thanks :-):

(Jan. 14, 2009 11:17 AM)lnminente Wrote:  by the moment you could block access to http://feedads.googleadservices.com

Maybe adding that host to some list of sidki would be sufficient

IncludeExclude-U.ptxt:

Code:

## various redirects
##
## example:
## this.site.com/foo/bad_pic.gif    $RDIR(http://local.ptron/killed.gif)
## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
feedads.googleadservices.com        $RDIR(http://local.ptron/killed.gif)

Final slash is omitted b/c Google has a tendency to switch to HTTPS (:443/).
Heck, you could even replace killed.gif with a tiny, minimalist, yet beautiful "feed ad" image.