Ad sneaking under the radar

[zafaran]

I use Google Reader to read blogs in RSS feeds and I just had a site's ads start showing up when the blog is showing in Google Reader when they *don't* show when the blog is directly accessed, and NoScript is actively filtering the blog.

The blog is Wendy Knits http://wendyknits.net/ and the ad site is pheedo.com. The only sites that shows in Google Reader to ask permission to display scripts are Google.com itself and youtube, and I've manually set NoScript's permissions on them. Pheedo's ads are appearing in Reader without NoScript being aware that they are there.

[Alan Baxter]

You're right. Since it's just an image -- not a script or other active content -- NoScript isn't designed to do anything about that. The Adblock Plus extension with the EasyList filter subscription blocks those ads. That's what I use and it works for me.

Hope this helps.

[Grumpy Old Lady]

It looks to me as though those ads don't use any scripting, just an <image> tag. So NS won't touch them.
Easy to block them however, if you use the Firefox "Block Images from pheedo.com" context click menu option.

EDIT: apologies for the echo-post :-) You may still like to use the simple "block images" method if you don't want to install another extension.

[Alan Baxter]

"Block Images from pheedo.com" context click menu option.

Oh. That's much easier. Thank you for suggesting it.

[zafaran]

It looks to me as though those ads don't use any scripting, just an <image> tag. So NS won't touch them.
Easy to block them however, if you use the Firefox "Block Images from pheedo.com" context click menu option.

EDIT: apologies for the echo-post You may still like to use the simple "block images" method if you don't want to install another extension.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Both of you. {sweeping bow of gratitude}

That gave me exactly what I needed. I wasn't sure *how* it was making it through NoScript, and I would rather have brought it up here and been told it wasn't a NoScript issue and be given a way to fix it, than discover it was the first incident of someone getting something to sneak around NoScript and no one was mentioning it was happening until it had spread. I've done tech support and beta testing for too long to take things for granted. I'd rather be told that what I found wasn't a problem, than assume it isn't a problem and discover it really was one after all. Thanks again. Zafaran {mailto:} zafaran {at} fastmail {dot} fm

[Alan Baxter]

You're welcome.

I would rather have brought it up here and been told it wasn't a NoScript issue and be given a way to fix it, than discover it was the first incident of someone getting something to sneak around NoScript and no one was mentioning it was happening until it had spread.

I agree. Thank you for bringing it up.