Firefox: This ad zapped

BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
edited February 23, 2006 in Dgrin Forum Support
All of a sudden, the little pics at the top of the page are being seen as ads, and I'm getting a "This ad zapped" instead of the pics. Anyone have any ideas what could cause this?
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited February 22, 2006
    BigAl wrote:
    All of a sudden, the little pics at the top of the page are being seen as ads, and I'm getting a "This ad zapped" instead of the pics. Anyone have any ideas what could cause this?

    What extensions are you running? I am not having this problem.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2006
    BigAl wrote:
    All of a sudden, the little pics at the top of the page are being seen as ads, and I'm getting a "This ad zapped" instead of the pics. Anyone have any ideas what could cause this?

    I'm not having that either. You'll probably need to tell FF or your ad blocker that Dgrin is a safe or allowed site.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2006
    Maybe it's Tools/Options/Web Features/Block Pop Up Windows. Put www.dgrin.com in the allowed box. ne_nau.gif
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited February 22, 2006
    wxwax wrote:
    Maybe it's Tools/Options/Web Features/Block Pop Up Windows. Put www.dgrin.com in the allowed box. ne_nau.gif
    Doubt it. The pics are not popups. There is a version of the adblock extension that relies on a shared block list. Perhaps that's the source? headscratch.gif I run adblock, but I maintain my own list.
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  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2006
    rsinmadrid wrote:
    Doubt it. The pics are not popups. There is a version of the adblock extension that relies on a shared block list. Perhaps that's the source? headscratch.gif I run adblock, but I maintain my own list.

    I use adblock and filterset.G and I still see them.
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2006
    Thanks for replies guys. I don't have any extensions and I haven't changed anything by going through the tools>options menu recently.

    I've just tried setting dgrin as an exception in load images, but still no luck. This is really puzzling headscratch.gif At least I now know it's something in my setup seeing that no-one else is having this problem. I'll google it and see what pops up :D
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2006
    Follow up:
    It could be some kind of ISP-based ad-zapper. such as this:
    http://www.lava.net/support/utilities/adzapper.html
    I've just looked at the source of a dgrin page, and because of the random way in which the pics are introduced, they may be seen as ads by the ad blocking s/w.

    Follow up to the follow up:
    I've just spoken to one of the support people this end and he has confirmed that such server side software is in place. He will check if anything has changed recently.
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