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04 July 2005

Ads in RSS feeds How do y'all get rid of ads in RSS feeds? My old-fashioned solution is to un-sub from a feed that starts carrying ads, but that's whittling down my feeds to none..... Isn't there a way to adblock them by now?

post by: dabitch at: 04:34 | 15 comments

....or is this worthy of askme? I have a knack of asking stuff there that gets no answers at all... weird talent.;) this mihgt just be such a Q, and here we can at least derail the post and chat instead.

posted by dabitch 04 July | 04:53

I like ads.

posted by Stoic 04 July | 05:43

I hate ads.

but that dictates a lot of my "surfing"

posted by ethylene 04 July | 06:12

mine too, I avoid ad-littered sites when they (the adss that is) reach some invisable level of "too frickin' much". Then I desert the site and if I still fancy it, I try reading the RSS only.

Now that RSS carries ads I'm dumping lots of feeds. Gaah! There's no escape!

Actually it wouldn't be so bad if the ads were relevant, I don't think, but they usually aren't.

posted by dabitch 04 July | 06:54

it would be nice if something on your own computer said "yes, i've seen enough crap already" or "i'm all cookied out"

posted by ethylene 04 July | 07:01

for now it's just my eye strain

is there a better word than surfing yet? it's still apt but old.

posted by ethylene 04 July | 07:03

i would get the weirdest associative google ads with my gmail
as one would well assume

posted by ethylene 04 July | 07:19

Only vaguely related, has anyone else noticed an odd behavious with Google in regards to search results and "premature cookie-release"? I have to approve every cookie fed to my browser (this'll make you ahte ad-littered site like nothing else) and have noticed that when I search on anything at all on Google, and get the returned results, as I'm reading them, the top or second result-website will send me a cookie! But I have no clicked on their site yet and may not ever visit their site. What gives? That's pretty weird me reckons.

posted by dabitch 04 July | 08:28

apparently when you use google in firefox it will prefetch the first search result. maybe thats causing it.

posted by dodgygeezer 04 July | 11:07

Aha! That must be it, thanks dodgygeezer, I had no idea.:)

posted by dabitch 04 July | 11:19

Whats wrong with the ads? RSS feeds gotta eat somehow...

posted by pandaharma 04 July | 15:57

Not sure if it will work in RSS feeds, but have you tried Mike's Ad Blocking Host File? Mike is skallas on MeFi. I use it at home and it removes most ads with no pain or fuss - as long as you don't mind little boxes with 404 errors in them, which just serves to remind you how many ads you are not seeing and, after a while, I found that I hardly notice the error messages anyway.

posted by dg 04 July | 18:16

pandaharma - it depends on the feed really, but 90% of them are ads. That is, the feed serves only a headline and a lead-in, not the entire posting. It's an ad to tempt me to visit the page and read more.
To put an ad in that is like putting a cake on top of a cake (to mangle a Swedish idiom).

posted by dabitch 05 July | 04:45

dg, I'll give Mike's file a go, looks great thanks.

posted by dabitch 05 July | 04:46

Thanks, dodgygeezer, that instacookie from Google was puzzling me too.

posted by bugbread 05 July | 07:16

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