Sponsored Links **eBay **

[Hubird]

http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1776

[rick752]

Why don't you try this for a bit and let me know, Hubird:

• ebay.com.au#div(id^=rtm_html_)(style=height: auto; width: auto;)

[Hubird]

** EDIT **

I was going to suggest a general rule/s based upon these:

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cgi.ebay.com.au#DIV(id=rtm_div_307)

shop.ebay.com.au#DIV(id=rtm_html_439)

buy.ebay.com.au#div(id=rtm_div_309)

buy.ebay.com.au#div(id=rtm_div_310)

shop.ebay.com.au#DIV(id=rtm_html_274)

shop.ebay.co.uk#DIV(id=rtm_html_439)

ebay.co.uk#div(id=rtm_html_274)

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(They are all ads)

I was then going to suggest a new rule

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my.ebay.com.au#DIV(class=alpdBt2px)

To remove some empty space on the Australian My eBay page

And

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.ebayobjects.*300x250;$frame

To remove an empty ad frame from the Australian eBay front page.

Suggestion:

Blocking one script seems to take care of ALL of them on both the Australian and UK version of eBay. The US and NZ versions of eBay seem to be different, the script is not present.

If you change:

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.ebayrtm.com/rtm?RtmCmd&a=inline&$script

To

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ebayrtm.com/rtm$script

You should be able to remove the following entries from EasyElement:

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buy.ebay.com.au#div(id=rtm_div_309)

buy.ebay.com.au#div(id=rtm_div_310)

ebay.co.uk#div(id=rtm_html_274)

I'm not sure about these:

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.ebaystatic./adserver

/eBayISAPI.dll?EKServer&

payments.ebay.com.au#div(class=pcontent)

[Hubird]

** BUMP ** (Short Version)

Change

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.ebayrtm.com/rtm?RtmCmd&a=inline&$script

To

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 ebayrtm.com/rtm$script

Remove:

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buy.ebay.com.au#div(id=rtm_div_309)

buy.ebay.com.au#div(id=rtm_div_310)

ebay.co.uk#div(id=rtm_html_274)

[Fulcrum]

Blocking that script will break many legit functions/features of ebay.

[Hubird]

Looking at the script is looks safe to block.
And I've been using that rule for a while and so far it has not broken anything (and it is not like I have not been looking for unwanted side effects either)...


Have you any evidence to back up you claims ?

[rick752]

I used to have that string in my list, but a couple of false positives DID started appearing a while back. I will check that out when I get home tonite.

[Hubird]

EDIT: I have some more suggestions pending double checking. It looks to me like the Australian and UK versions of eBay are very similar and share the same ad naming schemes so making any UK eBay element hide also work for the Australian eBay site and vice versa might be useful.



Just found a problem with my proposed filter and one of your existing ones

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.ebayrtm.com/rtm?RtmCmd&a=inline&$script

Causes problems on:
http://stores.ebay.com.au/

[rick752]

I have changed:

• .ebayrtm.com/rtm?RtmCmd&a=inline&$script

to

• .main.ebayrtm.com/rtm?RtmCmd&a=inline&$script

so it will only affect the US version.

The other "rtm" scripts are still very questionable. I already went thru the rtm fiasco a while back. This one needs to be thoroughly tested by an avid U.S. ebayer.

[Hubird]

Just found a problem with my proposed filter and one of your existing ones

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.ebayrtm.com/rtm?RtmCmd&a=inline&$script


Causes problems on:
http://stores.ebay.com.au/

My suggested code would have caused the same problem. Probably safer to go with element hides.

The Australian version of eBay is trialling a BETA page for some people at the moment. I will hold off posting my suggestions until they have finalised things.

[Hubird]

http://search.ebay.com.au/search/search ... age=search

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ebay.com.au#DIV(id=rtm_div_274)

Hide some eBay sponsored links

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ebay.com.au#DIV(id=rtm_div_184)

Removes some empty space at the top of the page

[fanboy]

I've got *.ebayrtm.com/rtm?rtmcmd&a=json* which normally takes are of the ebay sponsored links, shouldn't a similar filter work well?

[Hubird]

I'm having a bad case of deja vu !!

I'm sure there was a thread somewhere where Rick decided to go with your suggestion (or something very similar) but I could not find it

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.ebayrtm.com/rtm?rtmcmd&a=json

Is in EasyList but it does not take care of these particular sponsored links.

Nothing in you "fanboy-baselist-adblock(alpha)" list takes care of them either.

EDIT #2

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.ebayrtm.com/rtm?RtmCmd&a=inline&$script

Which used to be in EasyList but was changed because it caused F/P at http://stores.ebay.com.au/ (mentioned in this thread) would take care of them.

[fanboy]

This is my active filter list, (no ads from the ebay.com.au site)

(using expanded+element filter)

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*/rover.ebay.com/*

*.ebayrtm.com/rtm?rtmcmd&a=json*

#DIV(class*=TextAd)

#*(class=topBannerAd)

[Hubird]

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*.ebayrtm.com/rtm?rtmcmd&a=json*

From your "fanboy-sites-adblock" seems to take care of them and no F/P on http://stores.ebay.com.au/ either.

I was about to suggest something to block a 1x1 image (WEB BUG) that had information about the previous site I had visited:

http://rover.ebay.com/roverns/1/705-163 ... ype=static

and

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*/rover.ebay.com/*

Seems to take care on it.

@ Rick


Please add:

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*.ebayrtm.com/rtm?rtmcmd&a=json*

To take care of the sponsored links

And

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*/rover.ebay.com/*

To block the web bug

[rick752]

I'll take care of that when i get back home sometime this weekend (still in Massachusetts right now)

[Hubird]

I'll take care of that when i get back home sometime this weekend (still in Massachusetts right now)

No problem, enjoy your time off... I just wanted you to be able to see what needed to be added as easily as possible, I wasn't nagging...yet

[rick752]

The first one already exists in the EasyList,

Added the second one

[fanboy]

I'm sure we talked about the ebay stuff before... (and I thought it was resolved then?)

[rick752]

I'm sure we talked about the ebay stuff before... (and I thought it was resolved then?)

Hmmm ... so did I.There were some false-positives associated with the last element hide suggesred there. I just visited the ebay.de example and see no ads there ... did I miss something? Is it a country-code thing?

Did Ares already take care of it in his list? I normally don't do DE sites for ads in the EasyList .... Ares list is the EasyList's supplement addition for DE ads.

There doesn't seen to be any problems with any English-language ebay sites that I know of.

[Ares2]

I don't have any rules for ebay.de, everything seems to be fine with the existing filters in EL/EE.

[fanboy]

loaded the german ebay site

http://software.shop.ebay.de/items/Linu ... acatZ28855

with my filter, and it seems to block the ads with *.ebayrtm.com/rtm?rtmcmd&a=json* without it, it loads the ads at the bottom of the page

[Ares2]

Yep, this one is in EasyList since November.

[fanboy]

Hubird, did you disable Rick's ebay filter? :P

[Hubird]

All I know is that it's all good now

I knew there was another topic about this somewhere but didn't think it would be on the adblockplus.org forum.

[rick752]