Can I disable a specific annoying advertisement?

Question

I don't mind advertising in general on S[OFU], but I don't like a specific one. Is it possible to ask that you don't see a specific advertisement again, without doing some Greasemonkey magic?

Background: The one I don't like is the "Case of the Mondays?".

Answer 1

We are looking into whether this is possible--it depends mostly on AdZerk, our ad-serving provider. I think it's actually a good idea to put close boxes on ads which muffle a given ad (or a given advertiser?) for a particular user. If you don't like the ad or advertiser, there's no sense in showing it to you. And we could use the data we get back from this to identify ads that are inappropriate for our audience or unusually offensive, or to show you ads that you care more about.

Answer 2

GET RID OF THE ADVERTISEMENT!!!

I hate it.

Solutions:

• Send massive amounts of spam to Stack Overflow until they get rid of it (anyone want to make a spambot?)
• Yell until your coworkers come to see what you are yelling at and then tell them to send massive amounts of spam to Stack Overflow
• Bang your head against the wall until the doctor comes to examine your head. Then tell him to... oh you get the idea.

Answer 3

You can't do this with Adblock Plus if you normally have it turned on for every site, but add an exception for stackoverflow. There's no way to add an exception to an exception.

Here is a greasemonkey script; unfortunately, the ad still flashes on screen for a second :(

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Remove case-of-the-mondays
// @namespace      http://example.com/
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/
// ==/UserScript==

var crap = document.evaluate(
  "//img[@src='http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/case-of-the-mondays-careers.png']",
  document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null
);

for (var i=0;i<crap.snapshotLength;i++) {
   var img = crap.snapshotItem(i);
   img.parentNode.removeChild(img);
}

Seriously, does anyone like that ad? Can we just kill it please?

Answer 4

Ask your friendly ad blocker to block that particular ad alone. From what I can see, each ad image has a different name, allowing you to block only that.

Answer 5

Here's a Stylish "script". Like the Greasemonkey scripts, but without the delay.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

img[src*=case-of-the-mondays-careers]
{
   display: none;
}

Answer 6

Case of the Mondays is gone for good, with the switch from Careers to Careers 2.0.

Answer 7

Here's another GM script, this one uses JQuery to take the offending image out. Not that there's anything wrong with the other one, I just like tweaking these things.

// ==UserScript==
// @name           so-office-space-hater
// @namespace      so
// @description    Exclude Office Space ad from SO
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
(function(){
  unsafeWindow.jQuery('img[src$="ads/case-of-the-mondays-careers.png"]').remove();
})();

Answer 8

I'm surprised no one has said this. You can use AdBlock Plus. Whitelist the site to allow ads. Right click the offending image and select block image (it should be last item in menu). A dialog pops up and you can select custom which will block only that specific image instead the the entire site or range.