So ever since installing PrivDog, I’ve never seen an ad from AdTrustMedia… I used to think it was either because I was using NoScript for Firefox or ScriptSafe for Dragon/Chrome. For example, my homepage is msn.com and whenever I load that page, I see this blank area where an ad should be. I thought maybe NoScript/ScriptSafe was interfering with it and maybe even Disconnect which is what I asked in another thread so I tried disabling them but there is still that blank area. It’s like that for every other site as well…no AdTrustMedia ad just an empty spot.
If you are using this method to redirect any connection attempts from your machine to bad sites ( so that they go to local host 127.0.0.1 instead ) - That would cause what you are seeing
Effectively neither the browser or any extension ( PrivDog ) will even get the chance to link up to what should ordinarily be in the blank area, so even PrivDog does not get chance to replace the bad ads if the hosts file is blocking it first.
Ok so it turns out that I just needed to wait until their ads loaded up which sometimes took like 5 seconds or more… If I want to keep using ScriptSafe then I need to allow all the ad scripts. But sometimes it needs more than that and I need to disable Disconnect. Is that right? Can PrivDog effectively do the work in place of both of them? I had a feeling that they were interfering with PrivDog even though others said they make a good combination. Even though it’s starting to work in most sites now, I still don’t see ads for msn.com
