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Chris Maunder wrote:
[Edit] Sorry - forgot one point: I'm sure Adblock Plus must have a little intelligence built in to allow ads on a site A to be served from site B. Surely...
I can't find any way to do so except completely turning ad blocking off on a site and since there're ad servers like doubleclick that I'm unwilling to ever allow to send content my way that's not an option. This basically flows into what I meant by collateral damage. When SiteWithNastyAds.com hosts an eyesore from randomAdHost.com, the only consistent way to block it is to block *.randomadhost.com/* (I've tried more nuanced blocking in the past but it never stays blocked for long). By default (and apparently without any override available) this blocks randomadhost's ads on every site, with the result that there's no way to block offensive advertising without killing every ad by the provider on every site regardless of if most of what the provider serves is acceptable.
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This is all great feedback. One thing we're planning on doing is moving to Amazon S3 for hosting static content, and that would include our ads. If you keep Amazon and CodeProject unblocked then we're good to go. [Post caffeine Edit] You mentioned "since they're ad servers lick doubleclick". For ads served from Atlas or DoubleClick I can totally understand blocking them completely since there seems to be no easy way to block them with a "-CodeProject" setting. However, LakeQuincy.com can be safely added to your whitelist because every ad on that network is an ad sold by our salesteam who work by our own ad guidelines on what's acceptable (ads relevant to software developers) and what's not (anything else)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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This is all great feedback. One thing we're planning on doing is moving to Amazon S3 for hosting static content, and that would include our ads. If you keep Amazon and CodeProject unblocked then we're good to go. [Post caffeine Edit] You mentioned "since they're ad servers lick doubleclick". For ads served from Atlas or DoubleClick I can totally understand blocking them completely since there seems to be no easy way to block them with a "-CodeProject" setting. However, LakeQuincy.com can be safely added to your whitelist because every ad on that network is an ad sold by our salesteam who work by our own ad guidelines on what's acceptable (ads relevant to software developers) and what's not (anything else)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
You mentioned "since they're ad servers lick doubleclick". For ads served from Atlas or DoubleClick I can totally understand blocking them completely since there seems to be no easy way to block them with a "-CodeProject" setting. However, LakeQuincy.com can be safely added to your whitelist because every ad on that network is an ad sold by our salesteam who work by our own ad guidelines on what's acceptable (ads relevant to software developers) and what's not (anything else)
:confused: Is LakeQuincy not serving content for anyone else?
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Chris Maunder wrote:
You mentioned "since they're ad servers lick doubleclick". For ads served from Atlas or DoubleClick I can totally understand blocking them completely since there seems to be no easy way to block them with a "-CodeProject" setting. However, LakeQuincy.com can be safely added to your whitelist because every ad on that network is an ad sold by our salesteam who work by our own ad guidelines on what's acceptable (ads relevant to software developers) and what's not (anything else)
:confused: Is LakeQuincy not serving content for anyone else?
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Only for other developer sites such as ASP alliance, DevMavens, ASP.NET etc.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Only for other developer sites such as ASP alliance, DevMavens, ASP.NET etc.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
ahh. Well at least that explains why I had a block. ASP.NET was in my browser history and after temporarily whitelisting it and doing a few refreshes while I didn't see anything hosted by LakeQuincy some of the sites ads were running against my animation tolerance threshold. PS I did find how to set a per-site exception in ABP. Open the blockable items list, right click on a filtered item and the context menu lets you disable it for the current site. It's done.
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ahh. Well at least that explains why I had a block. ASP.NET was in my browser history and after temporarily whitelisting it and doing a few refreshes while I didn't see anything hosted by LakeQuincy some of the sites ads were running against my animation tolerance threshold. PS I did find how to set a per-site exception in ABP. Open the blockable items list, right click on a filtered item and the context menu lets you disable it for the current site. It's done.
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asp.net uses a few different ad providers - we're just one of them.
Dan Neely wrote:
PS I did find how to set a per-site exception in ABP
Brilliant. I'll add these to our notes.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP