[ ijbswa-Actionsfile feedback-1765798 ] zdnet "layered popup"

Actionsfile feedback item #1765798, was opened at 2007-08-01 16:48
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Category: filter: ad-not-blocked
Group: action file version 2.0
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Out of Date
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Francois Marier (fmarier)
>Assigned to: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Summary: zdnet "layered popup"

Initial Comment:
There's a really annoying "survey" popup that's displayed on top of the article the first time that this page is loaded:

  http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/opensource/0,39060102,63000113,00.htm

I haven't found a way to disable it.  One of the problems is that it goes away once the page is reloaded, making testing very difficult.  Is there a general way to get rid of these annoyances?

It looks pretty effective at going around privoxy and other filters so I suspect it might become more popular...

Francois

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>Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2012-12-15 04:48

Message:
The survey no longer exists.

In general JavaScript ads are more reliably dealt with by not enabling
JavaScript for untrustworthy sites.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2007-08-15 00:03

Message:
Logged In: NO 

Hi Francois,

You can disable it the same way they disable it on a page reload - don't
change the display style from 'none' to 'inline'.

If you don't already have a user.filter file in your Privoxy directory,
create an empty 'user.filter' file and remove the leading # from the
  #filterfile user.filter      # User customizations
line in config.txt

Add the following to your user.filter file:
##################################################################################
#
# disable-inline-style: prevent javascript from changing style.display to
'inline'
#   For example
#     popup.style.display = 'inline';
#   gets changed to
#     popup.style.display = 'none';
#
#################################################################################
FILTER: disable-inline-style

s@\.style\.display\s*=\s*(['"])inline\1@\.style\.display = $1none$1@s



And then add the following to your user.action file:
{ +prevent-compression +filter{disable-inline-style} }
.zdnetasia.com/


I'd also add
{ +block +handle-as-empty-document }
.zdnetasia.com/i/js/s_code\.js
.imrworldwide.com/v52\.js

on general principals, but neither of those .js files has anything to do
with the popup you're seeing.

Good luck!

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