Gruntled - 12:44 am on Oct 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

trialfomiles wrote:

The way AdBlock works is by filtering URLs of the actual ads. You can use wildcards or regular expressions, so the filtering mechanism can be powerful. However, if I understand europeforvisitors's request to "block ads on a site-by-site basis", that would mean you'd want to block the ads being presented at certain site, not based on where the ads are coming from. I'm not aware of a way to do that with AdBlock. Is that what the Greasemonkey ad blocker does?

Yes. It's quite nice, actually. You open an "options" box and input the sites you want blocked. You can enter "*" to block adds on every site you visit. I just put "*yahoo*" to get rid of ads in my Yahoo mail.

...and there you have it. Full use of Yahoo without all those annoying (and, I assume, expensive) Flash ads. While I'm a little more tech savvy than than most surfers, I'm no web developer. In fact, I have yet to launch a site for fun and profit, although I'm working on it!