Disable Adblock Plus on all bookmarked pages

Posted on December 27th, 2007

I guess most of you are using the Adblock Plus Firefox extension to get rid of most advertisement on websites. I especially dislike aggressive ads like layer ads, popups and the like that force the user to act to be able to view the website.

As a webmaster I make a living from these ads however and have to ensure that they are working fine. I could do that manually and add all my sites, and the sites of the companies I work with, to the Adblock Plus whitelist so that all Ads are displayed. I just have to verify from time to time which ads are displayed to be able to remove offensive or inappropriate advertisements from my websites.

Adblock Plus offers a online script that transforms all your bookmarks into a handy list that can be imported into Adblock Plus which has the result that those domains are whitelisted. This means Adblock Plus will not disable the ads on those websites. You can naturally remove websites from that list again before you import them all.

You need to locate the file bookmarks.html in your Firefox profile directory and copy all its contents into the form on the Adblocks Plus website. The script will then strip the html file from all unnecessary elements and display a list of urls with the whitelist code in front of them.

Just copy and paste those lines into a text file and import it into Adblock Plus using the Preferences menu.

Posted under: Add-ons, Firefox, Tips

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