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https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=test

"Snowden Live" ad on the left, url https://www.startpage.com/graphics/promobanner/snowden-result-page-banner.png
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Not sure if it's an ad !
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Post by barbaz »

Thanks for the fast reply.
smed79 wrote:Not sure if it's an ad
... as opposed to what? Why?
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Post by anonsubmitter »

Startpage has never used ad banners before as far as I'm aware and the ad banner will obviously be removed after the livestream on September 14th. Adding a filter that will only be of minimal use for 12 days and then probably never be needed again seems a bit overkill.
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Post by gorhill »

The id for that element is #promo_cnt_id: sounds like an ad.

startpage.com##.banner-container gets rid of it.
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anonsubmitter wrote:Adding a filter that will only be of minimal use for 12 days and then probably never be needed again seems a bit overkill.
So it's worth to consider avoiding filters that would only apply to that one exact banner. But there's plenty of material there for useful generic filter(s)...
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Post by LanikSJ »

gorhill wrote:startpage.com##.banner-container gets rid of it.
That removes the "Add to Chrome" and "Set as Homepage" buttons for me. Using

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startpage.com###promo_cnt_id
doesn't remove those extra elements.
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Post by gorhill »

Lanik wrote:That removes the "Add to Chrome" and "Set as Homepage" buttons for me.
We are served different versions of the page? Mine: http://imgur.com/a/E89fu. "Add to Chrome"/"Set as Home" are under #settings on my side.
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Post by barbaz »

Yeah, they must be serving different versions of the page, because when I first reported this I got the same results as Lanik, and now I'm getting same results as gorhill. :?
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Post by LanikSJ »

Very odd this is what I'm seeing: http://imgur.com/a/jhN2Q

I'm thinking they're flipping back and forth between 2 versions.
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