Yahoo sponsored "news items"

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SteveL
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Yahoo sponsored "news items"

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While I am all for the "acceptable ads" program, the list allows some ads that I do not find acceptable, particularly the sponsored items at news.yahoo.com which are interleaved with actual news items. Currently I have disabled the acceptable ads whitelist to prevent these from showing up; is there an easy way for me to "unwhitelist" yahoo while still enabling other "acceptable" ads?
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mapx
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Re: Yahoo sponsored "news items"

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only if you are using abp + firefox:

forum/viewtopic.php?p=144601#p144601
SteveL
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Re: Yahoo sponsored "news items"

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Thanks; unfortunately I am using Chrome. Maybe in a future version of ABP a feature could be added that allows users to set the priority of rules, so that a rule can be "unexcluded". Or perhaps allow users to indicate which sites a particular rule list should not be applied to. I really think the Acceptable Ads program is fantastic, as it incentivizes sites to stick to the guidelines, while still allowing them to earn revenue, so am looking forward to reenabling it once I am able to add exceptions to it.
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