479683 - Ads on hooseek.com

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Annoyance Blocking, defect)

Description

[Pierre Rudloff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; fr; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081212 Camino/1.6.6 (MultiLang) (like Firefox/2.0.0.19)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; fr; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081212 Camino/1.6.6 (MultiLang) (like Firefox/2.0.0.19)

There are some ads on Hooseek's search result pages.

Reproducible: Always




I think the code is something like that :

	<div id="hskq" class="web">
		<div id="hskq_m">
			<div id="mr1">
				<div id="hsk_pub1"><div class="spons">Liens commerciaux</div>		<div class="pub1">
		<div class="pub_titre">
	<a href="http://rc23.overture.com/d/sr/?xargs=15KPjg15VSmpamwrypd7XKSeOGw1wEgszv%5F85vB5V6H9Bd8WQ8De13aKXHk8V4Se1u%2DF%2DNwPOX%2Da4eLfX5kPuOGgmNQ1WIGef3yt2awIo5N6uhW9FBh%5FMa8LXkn4ROPXoCZoKATZKzm%2D7acZe9D0U4pswOzB6Q%5FPJrw8u3xoMsIIeJ1QAnrxXCcMkJ6tYv9cTEXJ8IScAkeNyf5zDHI5FAm%2DxFv%2DylSClmXFmq4xoNvAWNLDdho6rFYo4IsKvwn4uOOLfwwIwPewfXtqUgukHTiymLmN98Q0rHlsdpoExSRqjqMW3Q0FRw6%5FuK152TdIAM6HLACpmIVSKvMx0zExA5A%5F%2D8bQHIdCUx6gjWK5hHZ5j0ohWHQ7yGG3Flb1MXvt61GfY2" onmouseover="return ss();"><strong>lea</strong> <strong>strasbourg</strong></a>
</div>
<div>
	<span class="url">www.ciao.fr/lea</span> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recherchez la Mode d´ete ici. Profitez d´avis et Sauvez sur Ciao.</div>
	</div>
	</div>

Comment 1

[philippe (part-time)]

I don't see any ads on that page. And I don't see anything in the source code indicating such. But it could very well be that those ads are only served to people in France (or Europe ?).

That said, div[class^="pub"] could be added to the list, I think (pub being an abbr. for publicité).

Comment 2

[Pierre Rudloff]

Attachment: Screenshot

There is an ad under "Liens commerciaux" (Commercial links).
It seems to depend on which search engine is used (little icons on the right of the search box).

Comment 3

[philippe (part-time)]

Ah, when I first loaded the page, it was using Yahoo.fr as search engine. One has to switch to the Exalead search engine (using the small icons at the top-right of the search text field) to get the ads.

div[class^="pub"] indeed. I'm not sure of div[id*="_pub"].

Comment 4

[Pierre Rudloff]

Attachment: Screenshot 2

I also got some "Kelkoo" ads here, whatever engine I'm using :
http://www.hooseek.com/web?recherche=facebook

Comment 5

[Stuart Morgan]

^=pub is likely to have way too many false-positives

Comment 6

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> ^=pub is likely to have way too many false-positives
Er... you're right. The same applies to *="_pub"


The Kelkoo ads mentioned in comment 4 are:
<div id="hskq" class="web">
  <div id="hskq_m">
  <div id="mr1">
    <div id="web_kelkoo"

Comment 7

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

For the the "Liens commerciaux" ads, we could do something like

div[id*="_pub"] > div[class^="spons"] ~ div[class^="pub"]

so that we get the idea of "spons" ("sponsored") reinforcing "pub" as meaning "publicité" in the page author's mind.  That feels incredibly hacky to me, though (especially since the ads are siblings, instead of children, of "spons").

For the Kelkoo ads, do they show up on many sites, or just this one?

Comment 8

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

Any thoughts on comment 7?  I'm tempted to just CANTFIX this one :(

Comment 9

[philippe (part-time)]

The 'Liens commerciaux' ads don't show up anymore for me (on random visits over the past month), only the Kelkoo ones.

I don't remember seeing those Kelkoo ads elsewhere, but that is not really surprising ;-). I don't surf often to mainstream French sites, and it is very possible those are blocked on other sites.

div[id="web_kelkoo"] blocks them, and doesn't prevent shopping/checking on the kelkoo.fr site.

Comment 10

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

Fixed on cvs trunk by the checkin for bug 485865.  Thanks philippe for your help on these!