[gevatter Lars]

I am searching for a way to block these stupid ads that come sliding into your view from the side and are blocking your view on the page you want to view.
Some of them don't even got a button to close them anymore. So how can I get rid of them?
I am using Firefox.

A website that shows these ads is, for example www.space-view.de
I hate these things and I am even stopping visiting sites that use these. Who the heck came up with that **** anyway? Put ads at the buttom or top in the background. I still see them there but they don't bother me in that annoying kind of way.

[Shade]

Well, I visited that site and got no ads of any kind, so I'd say a combination of the Adblock and Adblock Filterset.G plugins should do the trick for you.

[Wanderer]

If you want to do it in a hard way...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file

[gevatter Lars]

Thanks Wanderer but I tried the adblocker way and it seams to work. I have never payed much attention to blocking ads since they weren't that bothering. ^_^

[Nuke]

lately ads have just become a pain in the ass. especially ones with sound, so i tend to keep my spekers on mute while on the net. youd think that there was a way to mute flash unless i specify otherwise, or to be able to load flash explicitly so i have control over what it is allows to display.

[gevatter Lars]

I agree that ads have become more annoying then before. Sure its a way of sponsoring a webpage but I would definitly never buy anything that I link to an annoying ad I have seen somewhere.
I mean we got enough ads everywhere....in Magazins, TV, Radio, on every corner of the streets. I don't want to have it on the internet or at least it should be quite and in the background. I am visiting websites not for the ads but for the content they have.

[Col. Fishguts]

Flashblock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

[Wanderer]

Heh.. Probably others have 'developed' similar reading style too but i don't any longer remember any of the adds from newspapers after i have read that paper. I sort of filter them out and i see them as blank pages

Unfortunately same happens with very colorful news articles too (ie. look too much like adds).

[Hippo]

i use noscript, and i get nothing obtrusive visiting that site. it does have a lot of flash from other sides and ad servers that noscript blocked, so think about installing it into firefox

[Mars]

No script is good... but you need to disable it before a technologically inept person uses your machine.

[jr2]

I use NoScript & Flashblock... I"d say, try flashblock first... NoScript can be a PITA as you must reload the page with every domain that you enable.  Flashblock just blocks flash, and you click on the Flashblock icon to enable it... simple! 

[Jeff Vader]

I still say Adblock. Or Adblock Plus. With 'em you can block both flash objects and unwanted scripts. And with clever filter sets you can minimize the risk of something useful being filtered. Or, if something useful is still filtered, you can whitelist either single web pages or even entire sites.

[jr2]

I still say Adblock. Or Adblock Plus. With 'em you can block both flash objects and unwanted scripts. And with clever filter sets you can minimize the risk of something useful being filtered. Or, if something useful is still filtered, you can whitelist either single web pages or even entire sites.

I have Adblock Plus, Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper, and Adblock Filterset.G Updater.

I have kept these three extensions disabled since shortly after I got them a few months ago, because they block the built-in chat feature of Yahoo! Mail Beta.  I suppose I could re-enable them, and check to see if they have fixed that...

[Jeff Vader]

Basically that sounds like the component URLs of the Yahoo! Mail contain something that goes together with the filter rules of Adblock. You might be able to find them, though I suppose it'd be somewhat time consuming since you're using Filterset.G Updater. I once tried it but it seems to create a really excessive filterset, which at least in my case lead to performance problems. Then I just decided to get on with my handmade filterset, that contains all the necessary filter rules, but is only 11k in size. And everything works.