311017 - [adblocking] Occasional flash ad hangs Camino

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Some ads get through on webtender.com including one with the following URL:
http://cdn5.tribalfusion.com/media/375996/11996-laptop_728_pzjslegs.swf

Right, so... that needs to be fixed. ;)

(Webtender is a top50 site in my mind)

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

And another one:
http://cdn1.tribalfusion.com/media/364376/10752-laptop_728_catchtheflyfla.swf

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Odd, again I'm not seeing any ad on the site in the URL field (or even a space
for an ad), though I do if I turn off ad-blocking.

The script that calls the ads seems to randomly call other scripts, too, in
between calling images and iframes, so there's a sort of double  or cascading
rotation going on.  How often do you see the unlblocked Flash ads?  And are they
in <iframe>s or <embed>s or <object>s?

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

It seems to happen most on the individual drink sites (like
http://www.webtender.com/db/drink/1892).

The code that calls it is as follows:

 <!-- TF 468x60 JScript HORIZ code -->
  <script language=javascript>
   <!-- 
    document.write('<scr'+'ipt language=javascript
src="http://a.tribalfusion.com/j.ad?site=TheWebtender&adSpace=ROS&size=468x60&type=horiz&requestID=4291901467"></scr'+'ipt>');
   //-->
  </script>
  <noscript>
  <a
href="http://a.tribalfusion.com/i.click?site=TheWebtender&adSpace=ROS&size=468x60&requestID=4291901467"
target="_blank">
   <img
src="http://a.tribalfusion.com/i.ad?site=TheWebtender&adSpace=ROS&size=468x60&requestID=4291901467"
width=468 height=60 border=0 alt="Click Here">
  </a>
  </noscript>
 <!-- TF 468x60 JScript HORIZ code -->

Based on that, we can probably block a.tribalfusion.com (and possibly other
subdomain?). But then, I'm no adblocking expert.

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Fixed.