Block Full Screen Flash Ad On Groove Shark?

[war59312]

Hey Jeff,

Any chance on blocking the full screen flash ad on http://listen.grooveshark.com/ ?

It takes up the entire screen and plays an HP ad on first load, every time.

Any chance it could be bypassed?

Thanks,

Will

[Jeff]

I've tried it in 3 different browsers and I don't get any ads at all.

Any custom entries allowing it maybe?

[war59312]

Nope not using a single my filter.

Odd. I get the full ad in IE 8, Chrome 6, Opera 10.60, and Firefox 4 nightly.

Every time it's a full screen HP flash ad.

[Jeff]

Unfortunately I can't do anything about it until I see the same ad.

Are you logged in?

If so you'll need to provide me an account.

[war59312]

Yeah I thought that too maybe so I went ahead and created an account and same ad.

So does not matter if your registered or not.

Well I sent GS a twit so hopefully I will get an answer to why not everyone is getting the ads.

Even more annoying is that now they change the theme to ad every time on load.

Update: Sweet, what do you know. They use their twitter account. They fixed it already.

[Steve1209]

I also get the HP Ad and just came here to report it. I get it both in IE8, and the latest Chrome 6 every time. I'm not logged into the site. Using v4.9 beta 32130/3083. I use windows XP SP3 if that matters.

Steve

[war59312]

Damn it, your right. It's back.

[Jeff]

I don't know why the site insists and never sending me any ads.

Try this:

Block retrieval of URL:
.grooveshark.com/webincludes/themes/themes.

[Steve1209]

Jeff,

I profess to STUPIDY can you please explain how to block, so I can understand?

Thanks,
Steve

[Jeff]

- Click the Ad Muncher icon in your system tray to open the
configuration window.
- Click the "My Filters" tab.
- Click the "New" button.
- Set the keyword to:
.grooveshark.com/webincludes/themes/themes.
- Set the category to "Block retrieval of URL"
- Click "apply" and the new settings should take effect
after you clear your browser cache and reload the page.

[Steve1209]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the reply information unfortunately I still receive the HP AD every time I go to the website. I cleared Chrome cache after I made the change in AM, the Ad still appears every time. It's only a 10 second Ad so if I have to live with it I will I guess.

Thanks,
Steve

[war59312]

Well gone again for me. It comes and goes.

[Jeff]

I think I removed the HP ad for the next list update.

[war59312]

Nice. So you finally saw it um.

Which list update is that?

[Jeff]

no, I never got the ad.

It was an educated guess from the looking at the code.

Build 3101 and up.

clear your cache.