New online ad formats

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(Mar. 12, 2009 01:11 AM)lnminente Wrote:  World of banners is changing, maybe it they weren't so obstrusive we would not block them, as we understand servers and their work must be paid...

I like Michael Bürschgen's approach, to entirely separate anti-ad filters from anti-tracking etc ones, offering a switch for turning ad blocking off and on. However, if done consequently, it would require you going over hundreds of ad domain list entries, deciding if they are specialized in tracking, or pushing ads.


As for the new banner formats, i'm confident that they don't require new filters.
Maybe except for the "Fixed Panel" (style="position:fixed" or a JS emulation thereof). That one is a pain.

And then there's the intro ad, the second videoegg recommendation here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-web-a...als-2009-2
It can be seen at http://bloomberg.com/ .

While they can usually be blocked on a per site basis (RBB.js in above example), i wouldn't know how to do that generically.