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Domain blocking: Apple Ads Blocked?

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    • CommentAuthormjedi
    • CommentTimeApr 8th 2009
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    I was trying to watch some Apple ads on apple.com, but they don't load. I can, however, watch all of their guided tours and tutorials. I assume it's because the word "ad" is in there, so I added apple.com and movies.apple.com to my whitelist. However, I still can't watch the Apple ads.

    Any ideas? Thanks.
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    its not due to the word ad.. at least if it is it's not Opendns doing the Blocking.. Opendns just does DNS blocking not Keyword blocking..
    Thankful People: mjedi, thecombeeman
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    can you give a link to 1 of the pages that the video isnt loading on? every video I have seen there has been hosted on apple.com (you dont need to whitelist both movies.apple.com and apple.com as apple.com covers every subdomain of apple.com)
    It's possible the video ads are just taking longer to load
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    Note that if something is blocked by your OpenDNS filters, you will be getting a "blocked" message. If you don't see one, it's something else.
    • CommentAuthorlekren
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2009
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    Blocking akamai causes some Apple issues.
    Thankful People: pencoyd, thecombeeman
    • CommentAuthorpencoyd
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2009
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    Look for the domain of the videos, not the one in the browser bar. As leskern suggested, it's probably an Akamai URL.
    • CommentAuthormiked
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2009
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    You need to remove 'doubleclick.net' from your custom blocked domains list.
    Thankful People: mjedi
    • CommentAuthormjedi
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2009
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    Thanks for all the responses. And, I'm embarrassed to say, it wasn't OpenDNS. I couldn't watch the ads from work on the same laptop either. Turns out the Firefox extension Adblock Plus was blocking the ads because of the word "ad" even though it used to work before. After putting apple.com on the ABP whitelist, the ads started playing.
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    yeah, adblock plus can be fickle at times, 1 of the reasons I stopped using it.
    • CommentAuthorM Frank
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2009
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    ABP is an extremely effective tool with a decent list/s and needs to be tuned cautiously. One white list I would recommend for anyone using it is https://* (annoying ads will be on some secure sites) or white listing the domains you visit with a secure connection. Such as: your bank, e-commerce sites.

    Personally I prefer a secure connection, especially if I am using bank with shaping on a network. With secure transmission having priority of course. On FF I get my search engines here:
    - http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=https

    Scroogle
    Ixquick
    Wikipedia

    Plenty of secure search engines there.

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