Here John I copied and pasted those forum posts that were having problems w/ ads. Course they are talking about another forum so hope this can help you somehow anyways.
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Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
I've been gone a month and this was the first place I logged on. Suddenly I have pop-ups and advertising (on the side) that I've never had before. I've done everything I can think of to get rid of it. A 'teck' suggested that this was a 'new' thing for this site. Is it? Do all of you have it? Ladybug
Follow-Up Postings:
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
Luckily, no - contributing members are spared such aggressive marketing. Sorry to hear they're going down that path again - for a while they were putting stuff on that was crashing a bunch of folk's computers.
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
I have been having a lot of problems with this thing! Are you saying that if I were a contributing member the advertising would go away? I don't seem to be having this problem on other web sites. Ladybug
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
I am not a contributing member and I don't get the popups. The cure: Firefox browser -- ditch IE quickly. I also have other software installed also which blocks most of the ads from showing up.
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
i don't have a problem with the pop-ups either, but i have noticed lately that they have been putting in "Intellitxt" (key words that are highlighted green and double underlined) within people's posts (today i noticed this in grant's post about his water lillies). if you drag your mouse over the highlighted key word it shows an ad for a related web site. guess they will always find a way to bombard us with ads and spam.
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
Yeah, I just found that "intellitext" yesterday. Obnoxious if you ask me, and I'm a paying member. If it gets much worse, I don't know how long I'll stick around.
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
I have Firefox installed, that isn't helping. I am also having to run ad-aware and spybot more frequently. I sure hope this web site isn't the problem. Any other suggestions on how to get rid of the adds? Ladybug
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
Firefox is the right answer. Go to Tools/Extensions then click more extentions and get the NO Script and the AdBlocker. The NoScript will take care of this one, and the AdBlocker is good for many others.
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
Yes, I am annoyed by them as well. They are not really pop ups per. se. because the latest version of IE blocks pop ups by default. I think they are Flash. I've found you actually won't see these in older versions of IE. I know gardenweb is using these to generate revenue like anyone else, but do they have to be so annoying. They cover the whole screen and you have to chase them around to get rid of them. At least keep them in the margin.
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
If you're using Adblock, use this as one of the filters, and you should not see anymore popups: [
http://*.ivillage.us.intellitxt.com*]
Use everything between the brackets.
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
Once and for all: How to stop the iVillage ad onslaught.
First we need to understand how it's done: iVillage doesn't bother to try and buy ads directly from all the various companies that show up on the pages of GW. Instead they use large ad-service agencies like doubleclick, akamai and pointroll. You can visit some of these sites if you'd like to see who's behind the ads.
http://www.akamai.com
http://www.doubleclick.com/us
http://pointroll.com
This makes it easy to block out all or almost all of the ads very easily, just block the originating sites. Right now all the ads on GW come from:
http://amch.questionmarket.com
http://a820.g.akamai.net
http://iv.doubleclick.net
http://i.ivillage.com
http://m.2mdn.net
http://tste.ivillage.com
http://img-cdn.mediaplex.com
http://ads.vmirror.com
http://cmhtml.ivillage.overture.com
http://ads.pointroll.com
The Universal Solution.
This will work on Windows systems for all browsers; IE, FireFox and Netscape. This is the best way to remove the ads from GW and not effect other internet sites.
The Windows operating system provides a system-level method to block specific IP addresses before they even get to the browser. To effect this solution you need to edit a Windows system file called hosts. This file is located in the directory:
Windows XP: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Windows 2K: C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Windows 98: C:\WINDOWS
Open the file in Notepad. Cut the following from this post and paste it to the end of the file.
127.0.0.1 amch.questionmarket.com
127.0.0.1 a820.g.akamai.net
127.0.0.1 iv.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 i.ivillage.com
127.0.0.1 m.2mdn.net
127.0.0.1 tste.ivillage.com
127.0.0.1 img-cdn.mediaplex.com
127.0.0.1 ads.vmirror.com
127.0.0.1 cmhtml.ivillage.overture.com
127.0.0.1 ads.pointroll.com
Edit each entry so that there is a tab between the IP address 127.0.0.1 and the URLs. Save the file and you're finished. Close and re-open your browser and all the ads will be gone.
Unfortunately, iVillage may in the future buy ads from a new source. In this event the new ad source will have to be added to the list.
The IE solution.
Most of the ads are placed using Java$cript. You can remove the more offensive ads in IE with the browser settings. You can't however remove them all. To improve GW using IE do the following:
From the menu select Tools -> Internet Options -> Security and click on Custom Level. Scroll down to the end of the list and you'll see an entry for Scripting. Disable all the sub-entries. Now select the tab labeled Privacy. In the bottom of the box that appears check on the option to block pop-ups. I recommend you also click on the button Advanced and select the option to block Third-party Cookies.
NOTE: By disabling Scripting you will also effect the way other websites behave -- other sites may not function at all! You may need to get used to switching scripting on and off as desired. That's why this is the least desirable of these various options.
The FireFox solution
This is an excellent choice -- it's the fastest performing of the options listed here: FireFox is superior to IE in every possible way. FireFox provides the added advantage of blocking all Spyware, an evil that IE brought into this world.
* download and install Firefox 1.5
* in the FireFox address bar type about:config
* scroll down the list to the entry xpinstall.enabled
* right click on the entry and select toggle from the menu
* toggle as needed to set the value to true
* go to the Firefox website and follow links to extensions
* find the extension adblock and install it
* remember to toggle xpinstall.enabled back to false
* in Firefox select Tools -> Adblock -> Preferences
* use the New Filter field to add the following items:
http://amch.questionmarket.com
http://a820.g.akamai.net
http://iv.doubleclick.net
http://i.ivillage.com
http://m.2mdn.net
http://tste.ivillage.com
http://img-cdn.mediaplex.com
http://ads.vmirror.com
http://cmhtml.ivillage.overture.com
http://ads.pointroll.com
* enable Adblock
The trick with Adblock is to block the domain rather than the specific ad. If you click on Adblock to disable an ad. Select Tools -> Adblock -> Preferences from the menu and then edit the new entry; remove anything that follows after .com or .net. This will block everyting from that source.
The Netscape solution.
With Netscape you can shut down all the iVillage ads using the browser preference settings. From the menu select:
Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy and Security -> Cookies
Allow cookies for the originating website only
Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy and Security -> Images
Accept Images that come from the originating server only
Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy and Security -> Images
Block unrequested popup windows -- turn this on
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced
Enable native object scripting -- turn this off
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Scripts & Plug-ins
Enable Java$cript for Navigator -- turn this off
NOTE: GW will now be ad free, however disabling Java$cript will effect how other websites behave. You may have to get used to switching this setting back and forth. Therefore I suggest the Universal option above is more appropriate.
NOTE: You MAC users out there: Sorry I don't have more info for you except to say that FireFox and adblock are available for the MAC.
There's no sense in further complaing, iVillage IS an ad. We need to let them be who they are and stop them on our end. Take care all.
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
retina, that is a wealth of info, thank you!
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
Thank you so much for the info Retina.
One question, though, please.
Under the Universal solution you state:
"Edit each entry so that there is a tab between the IP address 127.0.0.1 and the URLs."
Is a tab just a space? and if so, there appears to be a space already in your list. So, what should we put there?
Thanks again.
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
Linda--take a look at this article. It explains the hosts file in some detail and may be able to get you going in the right direction.
A note of caution: Backup the hosts file before you start messing around with it (just save it as hosts.old for example).
Here is a link that might be useful:
Host file details
RE: Pop-up and advertising anyone else?
thank you azdesertrat for link. good info there.
I ended up just c/p the list above into the Host file and now...voila...no more ads, except the "visit Ivillage merchant" one. (I did back up the Host file also, just in case..lol)
