424709 - Ad not blocked when blocking is on

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Annoyance Blocking, defect)

Description

[Jo Edward Davidson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.14pre) Gecko/20080318 Camino/1.6b3pre (like Firefox/2.0.0.14pre)
Build Identifier: Camino/Version 1.6b3pre (1.8.1.14pre 2008031800)

When I do my daily jigsaw puzzle I get an Ad even though blocking is on in preferences.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.navigate to the cited web address.
2.Use OS 10.4.11 on a new Intel Mac
3.
Actual Results:  
I see annoying ads.

Expected Results:  
Because ad blocking is on, I expected not to see an Ad.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

If you're referring to the video ad that plays before the game starts, that's what's commonly called an "interstitial" ad, and there's almost no way to block them without totally breaking the site.

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Comment 2

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

Well, in this case it might have been blockable without preventing the game from working, since the game loads even when Flashblock prevents the ad from playing; however, I can't see a good way to actually block the ad :-(

<div id="preplayDiv"><object id="preplayMovie" ...><embed src="/a/swf/autoparser.swf" ...>

I'm not sure we want to be blocking all "preplay" type ids.

Comment 3

[philippe (part-time)]

I haven't really tested, but blocking the ad will probably prevent the game from loading. From a quick look at the scripts, it appears the preplayDiv is injected, if it has content, play the ad and after a delay, kill that div and replace it with the actual game movie, or a wrapper div that contains the game.

And in general, 'preplay' is probably a bit generic. With the proliferation of various Flash based 'media-players' I can imagine other sites using similar techniques to (pre)load games or movies or whatever, even without advertisement.

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

Closing WONTFIX based on comments 2 and 3.