How to disable annoying adverts in IE

[digicam]

I went to the Reuters page below and there is a really annoying advert on the right hand side which keeps coming onto the text I am trying to read, I am seeing more and more of these on sites like Yahoo and MSN, is there a setting in IE6 to disable this sort of stuff?

[today.reuters.co.uk...]

[Quadrille]

Wish I knew - my solution is to avoid such sites.

Any site that puts ads more prominently than their content doesn't deserve visitors. And there's always an alternative.

They hope you'll click on the ad to make it go away - don't ever do that, it just encourages the b*****s!

[penders]

It doesn't just effect IE... my FF setup does the same. But my Opera 8 isn't suffering from the 'in yer face' adverts at the link you give - but then my Opera probably doesn't have the latest Flash installed.

There might be an extension for FF that may help?

[engine]

Just move the mouse away from the ad. It's designed to scroll as you mouse over it. Some even have a "close" window/button.

Alternatively, go to tools, options and advanced. Turn off the relevant settings in multimedia. But, do that with caution.

[lmo4103]

When I am not in the mood to have that junk all over my screen
and I just want to have pages load fast so I can read the text,
I change the browser settings to not load images.

[digicam]

The advert has now changed, when I first posted it was for a hotel, the thing expanded across the page without me doing anything, after pressing close the damned thing did it again making the page unreadable.

There is now an animated easyjet advert running across the top as well.

There must be an easy way to kill this sort of stuff and return my browser to my control?

[idolw]

how do i stop seeing bloody adsense ads?

[Quadrille]

Now that's easy; just disable javascript.

It'll also dosable many other web features ...

Or just ignore them? Unlike the one this thread is about, they don't flash, move, or do anything but sit there.

[SuzyUK]

Opera9 allows you block ads like this with a right click.

User stylesheets are a solution which FF handles nicely,
embed[src*="ad.uk.example.com"],
embed[src*="ds.example-sys.com"]
{display: none !important;}

You could put a variation of that CSS in an IE user stylesheet but unfortunately the 6.3.2. Substring matching attribute selectors [w3.org], which the above relies on, are a CSS3 proposal which IE doesn't support.

And although IE does allow you to use a user stylesheet, finding a full unique selector for a situation like the above is a full time job, as it seems to be generating unique ID's with each ad.

there is a div on that site that can be targetted which at least stops the rollover effect, but beware if you block it and some other site happens to use that name on a div it could block content at another site too:

div#eyeDiv
{display: none !important;}

and also this will likely only work on a per site basis, whereas the Opera/FF solutions are global.

To set up a user stylesheet for IE, save a text file as ie.css (on the desktop or wherever). In IE
Tools ->Internet Options, General Tab -> Accessibility check the User Stylesheet Box and browse to where you just saved the file.

After you make any changes to the stylesheet, if you wanted to add the above rule for instance, you would need to restart IE for them to take effect.

It's a bit of long way around, but for something as annoying as that it might be worth it! or just switch To Opera or FF?

Suzy

[digicam]

This seems to work on the above example page as it has a good number of different animated adverts to test.

I set IE to high security but of course have to enable Javascript so other needed things work.

Then in Tools>advanced>Multimedia there is a tick box to disable animated pictures.

lo and behold that really annoying animated little man has stopped, the easyjet and BMW adverts are also just sitting there.

[SuzyUK]

Hold that thought!

You could put a variation of that CSS in an IE user stylesheet but unfortunately the 6.3.2. Substring matching attribute selectors, which the above relies on, are a CSS3 proposal which IE doesn't support.

just doing some checking on the above and seems IE7 *does* support these "Substring matching attribute selectors", - although as yet I can't get it to work in a user stylesheet :(