I use Bloglines and FEED ON FEEDS to read RSS Feeds in Firefox, and I’ve started to see many ads in the feeds. I have no problem with ads on the site, but I don’t want them in the feed because I find them distracting when I’m trying to quickly scan article summaries. I decided to try to find a way to remove the ads. I first tried the Adblock extension, but it left an “Ads by Google” link in some of the feeds, which is still distracting when I’m scanning through the posts.

John Walkenbach posted the styles that he uses in Sage to block some of the ads, and I thought I’d try to make these work in Bloglines and FEED ON FEEDS. I found my userContent.css file (in my profile’s chrome folder), and I added the following to the file:

/* block google ads (ex. Engadget) */
a:link[HREF*="googleadservices"] {
display: none;
}
a:link[HREF*="ads_by_google"] {
display: none;
}

/* block feedburner ads (ex. Boing Boing) */
a:link[HREF*="feedburner.com/~a/"] {
display: none;
}

/* block feedster ads (ex. Slashdot) */
a:link[HREF*="feedster/adclick"] {
display: none;
}

That did the trick. I don’t currently see any ads when using Bloglines and FEED ON FEEDS. I’m sure I’ll have to add additional listings to userContent.css at some point.