New ad box, apparently unblockable

[Morningstar]

OK, TGD, I hear you. I love Firefox because it is so easy to block the annoying ads that Neopets fires at us.

And hey, just for the record, some of you might not know it, but several mods were working behind the scenes the past two days dealing with certain issues that a certain member resurrected. And I would like to take my hat off to them, if I may. I know that it isn't exactly "relevant" to the topic, but oh well, indulge me for a second, OK? Thanks to ahoteinrun, the_dog_god, and mayanspypilot for their hard work in keeping this site a fun place on which to hang out. They get no pay whatsoever for doing this, yet do it anyway. And well, I think that is pretty darned cool of them. So thanks, you all.

OK, back to ads. I hate IE because it doesn't allow me to block ads.

[arogance1]

Using IE7 and Vista, can I block the ads easily without having to get firefox?

You should read through the strings of this thread, but since it is sometimes hard to figure out what is for IE (Trident) and what is for FF (Gecko -- reptilian agenda anyone? lol) here is the newest code that will block ads in IE with Neopets current CSS. Seems they changed it at least three times already.

Code:

.adBox{display:none;}
.ad_wrapper{display:none;}
.ad_wrapper_fixed{display:none !important;}
#ban{display:none !important;}
#ban_bottom{display:none !important;}

So should my css file look like this to block top and bottom ads?
div.ban,div#ban {
display: none !important;
}
div.ban_bottom,div#ban_bottom {
display: none !important;
}
div.ad_wrapper,div#ad_wrapper {
display: none !important;
}
.adBox{display:none;}
.ad_wrapper{display:none;}
.ad_wrapper_fixed{display:none !important;}
#ban{display:none !important;}
#ban_bottom{display:none !important;}

[Dustin]

I can not get the Google "Sponsored Links" box to go away at all. I have it in my stylesheet but it's still not going away. It just popped back up tonight.

It's the #ban_bottom one.

[Keakealani]

Oh, so that's what that box was all about...I had wondered. But it seemed to fix itself in a day, and as far as I know nothing has changed except maybe adblock updated or something...

but yes, I really agree that it's sneaky of them to try to get around ad blockers...honestly if I really wanted to see advertisements I'd google whatever I wanted and just click on the links there...

[mercurius]

I still can't click on my username and neopoints and random events. Am I blocking something I shouldn't be?

[beanmommy]

I can not get the Google "Sponsored Links" box to go away at all. I have it in my stylesheet but it's still not going away. It just popped back up tonight.

It's the #ban_bottom one.

I had these all over the site for the first time ever today. I got rid of them by adblocking http://cm.neopets.overture.com/*

I'm not sure how to get rid of them via CSS.

[ahoteinrun]

This topic is supposed to be about the newest ad placement on Neopets.

Please keep it that way.

Enough about Premium. Those arguments have already been done in this thread. And if they're brought up again, obviously this thread will no longer have a use and it will be locked.

[mercurius]

Is anyone else still having problems clicking on the top username, neopoints, etc links?

[Anoohilator]

Is anyone else still having problems clicking on the top username, neopoints, etc links?

Yup, I've had a neomail event up there for ages and I just can't get rid of it

[GIR]

Is anyone else still having problems clicking on the top username, neopoints, etc links?

Yup, I've had a neomail event up there for ages and I just can't get rid of it

You need to fix your stylesheet.

Mentioning stylesheets, I've since updated mine, as TNT changed the source code AGAIN. The most recent change affected only the bottom adbox.

Code:

div.ban,div#ban {
display: none !important;
}
div.ban_bottom,div#ban_bottom {
display: none !important;
}
div.ad_wrapper_fixed,div#ad_wrapper_fixed {
display: none !important;
}

[bgryph]

I can not get the Google "Sponsored Links" box to go away at all. I have it in my stylesheet but it's still not going away. It just popped back up tonight.

It's the #ban_bottom one.

So does anyone have suggestions for how to block this as using CSS style sheets?

[Anoohilator]

Is anyone else still having problems clicking on the top username, neopoints, etc links?

Yup, I've had a neomail event up there for ages and I just can't get rid of it

You need to fix your stylesheet.

Mentioning stylesheets, I've since updated mine, as TNT changed the source code AGAIN. The most recent change affected only the bottom adbox.

Code:

div.ban,div#ban {
display: none !important;
}
div.ban_bottom,div#ban_bottom {
display: none !important;
}
div.ad_wrapper_fixed,div#ad_wrapper_fixed {
display: none !important;
}

..and where do I type that in?

[shapu]

Is anyone else still having problems clicking on the top username, neopoints, etc links?

Yup, I've had a neomail event up there for ages and I just can't get rid of it

You need to fix your stylesheet.

Mentioning stylesheets, I've since updated mine, as TNT changed the source code AGAIN. The most recent change affected only the bottom adbox.

Code:

div.ban,div#ban {
display: none !important;
}
div.ban_bottom,div#ban_bottom {
display: none !important;
}
div.ad_wrapper_fixed,div#ad_wrapper_fixed {
display: none !important;
}

..and where do I type that in?

This will go into a document called "usercontent.css" which should be somewhere on your hard drive.

[arogance1]

Is anyone else still having problems clicking on the top username, neopoints, etc links?

Yup, I've had a neomail event up there for ages and I just can't get rid of it

You need to fix your stylesheet.

Mentioning stylesheets, I've since updated mine, as TNT changed the source code AGAIN. The most recent change affected only the bottom adbox.

Code:

div.ban,div#ban {
display: none !important;
}
div.ban_bottom,div#ban_bottom {
display: none !important;
}
div.ad_wrapper_fixed,div#ad_wrapper_fixed {
display: none !important;
}

..and where do I type that in?

This will go into a document called "usercontent.css" which should be somewhere on your hard drive.

Open notepad, paste the code above in, save it as neopets.css on your C drive.
Then in IE6 or 7:
Click Tools -> Internet Options -> Accessibility
Put a tick in the box "Format documents using my style sheet", then browse to the C drive, select neopets.css, press OK and the ads vanish.

[shapu]

Yes, I should have clarified that my instruction was for firefox only. My error.

EDIT: Also add this information if you haven't already:

Code:

.adBox2,.footOverlay {display: none !important;}