How To Filter Out a Flash Ad?

No usual method (short of clicking) works to determine URL

[loudspeaker]

I have a particular flash ad that seems to appear on many of my pages and I want to block it. Here comes the problem: it's a flash ad and the usual instructions by Google on determining its URL

[google.com...]

simply don't apply (there's no "link" per se).

Do you guys have any other suggestions?

P.S. I don't know if this can be solved by AdPreview, but in any case, I don't think I can use it - I am on a Mac.

[Leonard0]

You might be able to find the link (in Firefox) by clicking the Tools menu at the top of the browser and selecting Page Info.
Click on the Links tab and search for a link with the name Ads by Google.
On that same line the destination URL of the ad should be embedded in the link following pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/pageclick?type=5&redir_url=http%3A//services.google.com/feedback/...

This works for text ads. I don't know if it will work for Flash ads.

[loudspeaker]

Thanks! I never thought of that..

[potentialgeek]

I got that same problem (Love Calculator) when I opened the floodgates to Image Ads. I solved the problem by turning off image ads. (At first I just blocked the domain, but I think the spammers may use more than one, so I just shut down image ads completely.)

They're so sneaky. They know they don't have to give a target URL like text ads, and that you can't right-click their flash ads to get the URL, and of course the ad itself doesn't say the target URL, either.

Google, as usual, showed no foresight or comprehension of human behavior to anticipate the abuse of Flash ads! Grrrrr.

HTH,

p/g