Closed Bug 461778 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Pop-up blocker: Layer-ads

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 289954

People

(Reporter: gregor.hamster, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
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Would it not make sense to introduce support for blocking layer advertisements into the default Firefox pop-up blocker?

After all this is the most preferred method to annoy website visitors.

Reproducible: Always

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A layer ad is not a popup - and there's currently no way to recognize them from regular CSS code.

Putting it in other words : if you find a way to block then, then you'll be VERY rich.
But extensions like Adblock are able to detect and remove them correctly. Or am I wrong?
AdBlock Plus isn't removing CSS based advertisements or interstitials. It only removes ads that can be recognized by its rules (host/URL based), for instance images and iframes, but the ones with CSS layers and DHTML aren't detected. For example, look at the ones at <http://popup-toolkit.com/hover_ads_examples/>

I assumed that you talked about those blocking layers - if you're suggestion is to include the AdBlock Plus engine inside Firefox, that's a whole other issue. 
Note that the popup blocker in Firefox is not based on a rule-system, but on the behavior of popups itself.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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