[Camino] Adverts on Sites

[Smokey Ardisson]

At 6:47 AM -0400 on 4/26/07, Robert D. wrote:

>I happened upon this otherwise innocuous site
>http://www.nysun.com/article/53288

Robert, will you please file a bug on that site in Bugzilla (against 
the Annoyance Blocking component in Camino)?

>Was wondering the extent to which we will be blocking annoying ads on
>web sites.

Easily-blockable ads that don't break much on major sites is the 
general criteria; some ads we don't manage to block, and some rules 
sometimes break things (we sometimes back such rules out, depending 
on the site, the extent of breakage, and ads the rule blocks).

We don't claim to block everything, but we are always working to 
improve what we do (and don't) block.

We update ad-blocking about once a month in nightly builds, and take 
well-tested ad-blocking updates in security releases (i.e., 1.0.x 
releases).

>I write because I see the tickmark for blocking adverts and wonder _if_
>    there is an adjustment that we users can make to it vis-a-vis additions?

Philippe has already mentioned one method (not controlled by the 
prefs check box), the userContent.css.  Another method is blocking 
specific hosts, or images from said hosts; see 
<http://www.caminobrowser.org/support/docs/annoyances/#hostperm>

Both of these are "on if present" and can't be disabled or edited 
within a browsing session, and can break things if you're not careful.

We do have a bug for a more AdBlock-like way to block ads 
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314046>, but it's not a 
priority right now.

Smokey
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Smokey Ardisson
Co-Lead
Triage/QA and Website & Documentation
The Camino Project