Ad blocked; whitespace still there

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wendisf
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Ad blocked; whitespace still there

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ADP 3.3.1; FF 56.0; Win10Pro64. On the New York Times web page, https://www.nytimes.com, the large full-width ads are being blocked, but the white-space remains. Hence, the upper third of my screen in just blank. Is there a way to create a filter to eliminate the white-space as well as the ad? Thanks.
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mapx
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Re: Ad blocked; whitespace still there

Post by mapx »

it's pretty difficult in ABP, I found no way (a filter can be written apparently but ... while targeting the white space...will hide all the page)

Other adblockers have another feature enabled: xpath

in uBo (ublock origin) there is this filter (incompatible with ABP as I said)

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nytimes.com##:xpath(//div[starts-with(@id, "dfp-ad")]/../../..)
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