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12-19-2008, 12:32 PM
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I don't have to say that folks are annoyed with Blizzard's new advertisements on the official forums. The forums today are filled with threads complaining about everything from their presence to their content (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13770857432&sid=1). Lure of Eradar (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13771067486&sid=1) suggested using Adblock Plus (http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865) and Remove It Permanantly (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/521) in Firefox to ditch the ads.
After loading the first addon, you must subscribe to a list appropriate to your region. The second addon gets rid of the grey frame left where the ad was. The original poster gave us handy dandy instructions on how to use it:
Load a random thread on the WoW forums, any will do. See that annoying grey frame?
Right click on the frame.
Go to RIP Advanced.
First choose "Remove from this Domain"
Go to RIP Advanced again, Next click "Remove all similar parent items."
The entire process took less than three minutes and my forums look just like they did before. For the most part we should be used to online advertising. You can just ignore them, but if you're really that annoyed by it (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13769577437&sid=1)do something about it. I also won't hear the objection that you don't use Firefox. You should (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/16/internet-explorer-exploit-targets-game-passwords/). I'd check into how to remove ads for IE, but I'm not willing to load Exploder on either of my computers.
Thanks to Lure and everyone else who offered similar simple solutions. If only there were an addon to block the trolls, we'd be all set.
http://www.wowinsider.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.wowinsider.com)Forum post of the day: I don't see any ads (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/19/forum-post-of-the-day-i-dont-see-any-ads/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com) on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
Read (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13771067486&sid=1) | Read (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865) | Read (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/521) | Permalink (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/19/forum-post-of-the-day-i-dont-see-any-ads/) | Email this (http://www.wowinsider.com/forward/1406765/) | Comments (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/19/forum-post-of-the-day-i-dont-see-any-ads/#comments)
More... (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WowInsider/~3/489980037/)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2008/12/md-noads.jpg
I don't have to say that folks are annoyed with Blizzard's new advertisements on the official forums. The forums today are filled with threads complaining about everything from their presence to their content (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13770857432&sid=1). Lure of Eradar (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13771067486&sid=1) suggested using Adblock Plus (http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865) and Remove It Permanantly (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/521) in Firefox to ditch the ads.
After loading the first addon, you must subscribe to a list appropriate to your region. The second addon gets rid of the grey frame left where the ad was. The original poster gave us handy dandy instructions on how to use it:
Load a random thread on the WoW forums, any will do. See that annoying grey frame?
Right click on the frame.
Go to RIP Advanced.
First choose "Remove from this Domain"
Go to RIP Advanced again, Next click "Remove all similar parent items."
The entire process took less than three minutes and my forums look just like they did before. For the most part we should be used to online advertising. You can just ignore them, but if you're really that annoyed by it (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13769577437&sid=1)do something about it. I also won't hear the objection that you don't use Firefox. You should (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/16/internet-explorer-exploit-targets-game-passwords/). I'd check into how to remove ads for IE, but I'm not willing to load Exploder on either of my computers.
Thanks to Lure and everyone else who offered similar simple solutions. If only there were an addon to block the trolls, we'd be all set.
http://www.wowinsider.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.wowinsider.com)Forum post of the day: I don't see any ads (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/19/forum-post-of-the-day-i-dont-see-any-ads/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com) on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
Read (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13771067486&sid=1) | Read (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865) | Read (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/521) | Permalink (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/19/forum-post-of-the-day-i-dont-see-any-ads/) | Email this (http://www.wowinsider.com/forward/1406765/) | Comments (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/19/forum-post-of-the-day-i-dont-see-any-ads/#comments)
More... (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WowInsider/~3/489980037/)