User:Amgine/How to remove bannerads on WMF projects

The Wikimedia Foundation has created a policy whereby WMF Projects are prohibited from editing, altering, or circumventing advertising banners it releases. As the projects also have no editorial influence or input on the content of these advertisements, and they have in the past been offensive and poorly targeted for a given project's readership, here are some techniques which might be used by a project's readers to not be subjected to the marketing:

en.Wikinews Preferences
There is a gadget on en.Wikinews which a user may choose to enable which prevents the display of the Wikimedia Foundation's banner ads (via css).


 * My preferences -> Gadgets -> Browsing Gadgets -> Suppress display of the fundraiser banner.

Firefox's Adblock Plus module
If you are a Firefox browser user, you're almost certainly aware of the Adblock Plus add-on by Wladimir Palant. It's the most popular FF add-on ever, and quickly and painlessly avoids downloading or displaying or running a very wide range of internet marketing files. You can add custom filters as well. The following filter will prevent displaying any WMF advertisements on any WMF project:


 * @@|http://upload.wikimedia.org/centralnotice/*

If you use the Foundation's secure servers you may need to use https: in the filter.

Make it invisible via CSS
The centralNotice is used to display banners across the Foundation projects. You might not be able to prevent it from downloading to your browser, but you *can* make it invisible. To do so, add the following line to your User:Username/common.css page:


 * #centralNotice {display:none !important;}

(Incidentally, this is approximately what the en.Wikinews gadget does.)