557471 - Ads on newgrounds.com

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Annoyance Blocking, defect)

Description

[Pierre Rudloff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; fr; rv:1.9.0.18) Gecko/2010021619 Camino/2.0.2 (MultiLang) (like Firefox/3.0.18)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; fr; rv:1.9.0.18) Gecko/2010021619 Camino/2.0.2 (MultiLang) (like Firefox/3.0.18)

There are still some text ads when playing newgrounds games.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Pierre Rudloff]

Attachment: HTML/JS code

Comment 2

[Pierre Rudloff]

There are some other ads on some pages (e.g. http://www.newgrounds.com/game/) loaded with this iframe :
<iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="125" height="935" src="http://server.cpmstar.com/view.aspx?poolid=150&amp;multi=7&amp;rnd=12345" style="margin-left:-2px; margin-right: -5px;"></iframe>

Wouldn't it be possible to block server.cpmstar.com ?

Comment 3

[philippe (part-time)]

Can you post a screenshot from where those ads appear ? I didn't see anything that wasn't already blocked.

The URL in the url field above redirected me to this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/531968.

server.cpmstar.com

Hmm, casually looking at the source code on a couple of pages, I'm not sure that url is used only for ads.

Comment 4

[Pierre Rudloff]

Attachment: Screenshot 1

Comment 5

[Pierre Rudloff]

Attachment: Screenshot 2

Comment 6

[Pierre Rudloff]

(In reply to comment #3)
> server.cpmstar.com
> 
> Hmm, casually looking at the source code on a couple of pages, I'm not sure
> that url is used only for ads.

By looking at http://cpmstar.com/, it seems to be a website that provides ads.

Comment 7

[Pierre Rudloff]

I've blocked most of the ads by using these rules :
@-moz-document domain(newgrounds.com) {
DIV[CLASS*="adhead"], 
DIV[CLASS*="wide_storepromo"], 
DIV[CLASS*="onethirdadholder"],
DIV[CLASS*="adfoot"],
A[CLASS*="cpmstarHeadline"],
A[CLASS*="cpmstarText"],
IFRAME[SRC*="server.cpmstar.com"]
{display: none ! important}
}

Comment 8

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

I think we can probably block the cmpstar iframes. I agree with Pierre; the site appears to claim that it's an ad network.

Comment 9

[Pierre Rudloff]

There are also some objects (not iframes) from simplecdn.net (which can have legitimate uses), but their data attribute also contains server.cpmstar.com (in GET variables).
CSS:
object[data*="server.cpmstar.com"] { display: none !important }

Comment 10

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

Fixed by the checkin for bug 549250, http://hg.mozilla.org/camino/rev/1ee085041bf3