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Authored by: JKT on Apr 05, '02 03:11:49PM

N.B. I'll submit this as a separate hint too - that way people can add to (or correct!) mine:

These all work for me and block 99% of ads I come across (unfortunately, you'll have to copy/paste them individually into the Privacy preferences - the first few were the OW 4.1 defaults so they can be ignored):

/ads\..*\.net/
/ads\..*\.com/
/.*\.doubleclick\.net/
/spinbox\.*
/www\.deplume\.com/thinksecret/advertising/*
/mirror\.qkimg\.net/*
/adserver1\.*
/kermit\.*
/a\.r\.tv\.com/cnet\.12h/Ads/*
/techtracker\.spinbox\.net/*
/www\.domainbuster\.com/*
/www\.cnet\.com/Ads/*
/adserver1\.backbeatmedia\.com/*
/www\.macrumors\.com/cgi-bin/adcycle/

For some ads you may find that you need to copy the url of the image itself, and not the link from the image, to be able to block it (after first editing for syntax and to reduce the specificity to catch all other ads at the same domain etc). Obviously, some of those are site specific (e.g. thinksecret, macrumors, cnet etc). Others are much more general.

Rule of thumb any . that is not immediately after a / should be proceeded by a \ ... the OmniWeb help files have a description of how to set up filters using the necessary syntax.



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