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[agrohe]

I would like to block individual links based on the where the link me.

For instance, if the HTML says. "Hey click here" and the link has *adserver* in the link URL, then I do not want to see the "Hey click here" HTML.

I have searched this forum and have not found an answer that works. Someone suggested that I try the "Check Parent Links" option, but that has not worked for me

[itr]

Simply turn on "check parent links" and add a rule for *adserver*

[agrohe]

Maybe I have an old build, or is this a bug?

Build v.5 d2 Nightly 39

[kstahl]

It doesn't work for text links, of course. Adblock can only block remotely loaded content.
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[agrohe]

So this is just a limitation of the extention? If so, is anyone aware of another extention that will take care of this?

I have tried RIP and GreaseMonkey. Not being familiar with regex, I cannot figure out the advanced capabilities of these extentions.

[AmirG]

Both RIP anf Greasemonkey can do this. RIP doesn't use RegEx and Greasemonkey can do without it as well.

Can't really help you with Greasemonkey, but you can easyly do this with RIP: just create a RIP for the URL http://* with the XPath //a[contains(@href,'adserver')]. You could get false-positives with that, i.e. "downloadserver", so it might be better to use //a[contains(@href,'.adserver') or contains(@href,'/adserver') or contains(@href,'&adserver')] instead.

[agrohe]

That seemed to work in RIP.

The problem is that RIP uses the site in the URL. i.e. I was using the www.bloglines.com URL, but the link was actually under another site.

So when I added a new RIP with HTTPL://*, the link disappeared.

[BeLeBo k]