377870 - Ad Blocking for Banner Ads Doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Annoyance Blocking, defect)

Description

[Ben Friedman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070228 Camino/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070228 Camino/1.0.4

This site had no Banner Ads Because your Blocker worked. Suddenly in the last day or so ANNOYING Banner Ads (some that FLASH continually) appear.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1Just go to the web site and view the Banner Ads that change with each reload. This happens on all my Macs with Camino now.
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Actual Results:  
As Above (See Previous answer)

Expected Results:  
AS Above.

This Bug is reproduceable.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

"optimizedby.rmxads.com" sounds like a link domain we could safely block.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Agreed; confirming and assigning to Smokey.

Comment 3

[Ben Friedman]

4/18/07 It's Still there! I guess you haven't started a fix as yet.I love this site and the Banner Ads are SO annoying!

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Uhm, this bug was just confirmed 14 minutes ago. Please don't post comments to the effect of "it's still a bug"; when the bug is resolved as FIXED, you'll know we've implemented a fix for it. Until then, commentary such as the above is useless and counterproductive.

In the interim, I suggest you use your hostperm.1 file

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Hostperm.1

to block all content from rmxads.com.

Comment 5

[Ben Friedman]

Umm! At the risk of being counterproductive let me state that as a constant user of  the subject web site these FLASHING banner ads are driving me bananas. Maybe because I wanted a status report and asked politely "someone" put my request on the back burner taking umbrage at the fact that I wanted a status report at too early a stage  of this process.I always thought Mozilla's staff and volunteer staff were a fair bunch of people who were attentive to the problems arising from bugs and receptive to the users who religiously use the browser.BTW I have no way of knowing how to use Hotsperm and I can safely say once I delve into it I surely will mess up my copy of Camino.I took the time and trouble to report this bug in accordance with Mozilla's procedures. I certainly didn't buy the curt response I received,all I wanted was what I deserved,a professional,courteous and reasonably prompt response.At this point I am totally aghast at the response I received.  

Comment 6

[Stuart Morgan]

Ben, fixing bugs takes time. We confirmed your bug the same day you reported it, and we'll fix it in the next round of ad blocking changes--given that, I'm not sure why you feel that we aren't receptive to your report. When we do fix it, this bug will change status to FIXED, and you'll receive an email to that effect; at that point you can download the next day's nightly build to test the change if you like, or you can wait until the next stable version of Camino is released.

Chris's comment was perfectly valid; complaining that your bug isn't fixed the same day you report the problem isn't productive, and that's explained in Bugzilla usage guidelines. As you said, you reported this bug according to Bugzilla procedures; please continue to follow Bugzilla procedures--specifically the Bugzilla etiquette guide--in your comments here. His comment about using hostperm was to suggest a workaround that you could use now, since you seem to want an immediate a fix--if you prefer not to, and instead wait for us to update our ad blocking, that's fine.

Comment 7

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

FIXED by checkin for bug 376270.