Wall Street Journal [added] (pvt)

[Wladimir Palant]

http://online.wsj.com/public/us has an ad at the top - http://online.wsj.com/img/promos/mark p ... update.gif. Maybe add */promos/* filter or do you think this will create false positives?

PS: Yes, this ad cannot be blocked via context menu - bug 16605.

[rick752]

Well, that's an annoying little beggar, isn't it?

I think that

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*/promos/*

is probably too general (I think I had that one quite a while back but got rid of it because of a couple of fp's).

But:

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/promos/*promo

... damn ... if you have to use it twice, it can't be good.

Done!

[e80]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/0 ... 53809.html

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||doubleclick.net/pfadx/*.wsj$object_subrequest,third-party

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http://ad.doubleclick.net/pfadx/video.wsj.com/default;frmt=0;plID=wsjexternalembed;lnID=Tech;ttID=9CD3E0E1D2984C249823574886850FB7;cue=mid;cgm=0;ord=1265703044124;adCat=;dcmt=text/xml?

http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N636.6421.5102994645521/B4000220.6;sz=1x1;ord=7678537

Embedded wsj.com video will not work without the above filter. After clicking play a ~2 sec intro will play, followed by "your video will begin in 15 seconds" while nothing actually happens.

Note that the 1x1 gif will be blocked even though its url isn't covered by the filter itself.

[Erunno]

https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/fd3f64488b81

I have unblocked the video ad at the beginning to make the main content work again but that leaves a rather foul taste in my mouth. If someone knows a better way I'm open for suggestions.

[fanboy]

suggestion wise, worked out of the box here.
I use,

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.com/ads/$image,background,subdocument

rather than

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.com/ads/

[e80]

https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/fd3f64488b81

I have unblocked the video ad at the beginning to make the main content work again but that leaves a rather foul taste in my mouth. If someone knows a better way I'm open for suggestions.

Why not block the ad with my suggested filter? There's already a similar filter in EasyList (||doubleclick.net/pfadx/*.mtvi$object_subrequest,third-party) for Comedy Central embedded content.

[Erunno]

Why not block the ad with my suggested filter?

It doesn't show up for me. With the exception of crossdomain.xml all Doubleclick addresses are blocked on the page you provided.

[e80]

Why not block the ad with my suggested filter?

It doesn't show up for me. With the exception of crossdomain.xml all Doubleclick addresses are blocked on the page you provided.

I've double checked on another computer and am getting the same behavior there. Did you play the video to the point where the 15sec problem occurs before checking the blockable items list? That's where the other obj subrequests happen for me.

[Erunno]

Did you play the video to the point where the 15sec problem occurs before checking the blockable items list?

Oops.

https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/c1992cd7b278

Thanks for the hint.