Filtering ads in RSS feeds?

[sidki3003]

Attached pic: I've re-included that one already in beta 2 for object data bugs, e.g.: http://www.dublincityjobs.ie/ (very bottom, halfway left).
Nice one for a rare bug, but not for - sometimes useful - ad banners, IMO.

(Jan. 16, 2009 07:00 PM)lnminente Wrote:  Agree with adding it to the defaul list Sidki, i read somewhere, google provides near fifty percent of the ads in internet :o So maybe an improve of speed could be done looking if it's from google before looking at the full list...

As for header-blocking Google servers, see below. As for list speed, should be okay, IncludeExclude gets hashed pretty well (pre: 10, url 10).

Quote:Maybe would be better adding only the root host googleadservices.com I searched for it at http://adblockplus.mozdev.org/easylist/a...ick752.txt and they use it too

Personally, i dislike the sledgehammer Hosts file approach (blocking all documents from listed hosts), which dicussed entry actually resembles. People who want Proxomitron to behave like that, can activate the "!-|||||||||||| URL: Block Ad URLs" header filter.
I need to load docs from ad hosts quite often (e.g. via the "Show x Scripts" Prox menu entry).

In fact, thinking about it, i'm not even comfortable with the "feedads.googleadservices.com" sledgehammer entry, and i want to narrow it down. Hence my request below.

Quote:One tip/question Sidki, wouldn't be better $JUMP instead of $RDIR?
-with $RDIR will be safer for sure, but the same image would be cached many times.
-with $JUMP we would cache many images only as one. Ok it's not a big optimization, but if not causing problems could be a small improve

Sure, worth a shot, since the images are off-site anyway, and i doubt that a page script does a location check.


eclipse, could you replace your list entry with the one below?

Code:

feedads.googleadservices.com
  $OHDR(Referer: \3)$ADDLST(Log-Rare,HDR_Out IncEx\tRef: \3 URL: \u)
  $JUMP(http://local.ptron/killed.gif)

If so, and if it doesn't work as well as before, just replace "$JUMP" with "$RDIR" (and tell us).
After a short while you should get a bunch of new entries in your Log-Rare.log. Multiple entries per feed. Looking like:

Code:

HDR_Out IncEx    Ref: http://feeds.urbandictionary.com/UrbanWordOfTheDay URL: http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/u7MHwqiRCboZQFJjSXcc_OBYkqc/i
HDR_Out IncEx    Ref: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/BAaf URL: http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Oll3zgunCfm9ibKE7zV-ZcwTzIM/i

Then please post these entries here, as attachment.