Comments on: Remove Text Ads from GMail

By: nm

nm — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:25:56 +0000

here’s how i do it… create a signature with the word death or dead in it – which block ads.. then make the font of the text white on white. no ads will show in messages.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:19:35 +0000

Hi, nice. I just thought of this too, but for me the following was sufficent:

install AdBlock Plus
define two rules:
google.com#div(id=ra)
google.com#div(class=rhh)

or in a stylesheet:
div#ra, div.rhh {
display: none!important;
}

By: alex

alex — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:41:50 +0000

hi nice site.

By: Pepe

Pepe — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:46:41 +0000

The last one works, but also get rid of the “Print” “Show all” “Show none” “Forward all” options, I think that they are more useful than the level of annoyance of the ads
Sorry because of my bad English.

By: dep

dep — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:02:46 +0000

You can also download the firefox extension Stylish and then create a gmail rule with the following code:

@-moz-document url-prefix(http://mail.google.com/) {
#rh, #rh .c
{
display:none!important;
}
}

By: ShakaZ

ShakaZ — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:23:40 +0000

Hello,

i was about to apply this solution to remove those adds, but as the article suggests it will probably work for a limited time only and i’m not sure if this hack won’t prevent useful information from displaying on other websites.

So i tried removing it with the RIP extension (Remove It Permanently) and it works fine… if you right-click at the right place you can remove the whole frame in one easy step (choose the ‘remove from this webpage’ option so you don’t have to worry about it any more)
This method seems more adequate to me as it will be much easier to revert or modify should google change their ads-code

By: kenfun

kenfun — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:54:02 +0000

I enjoyed the site (seriously ) and I understand that perhaps at the moment self promotion is bad and may seem superficial, but nevertheless I cannot resist the temptation of inviting you over to my site to take a look at one thingie and to say what you think . Thanks in advance.

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personomies » Blog Archive » Locked in for free — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:35:21 +0000

[...] Getting more freeloaders than “paying” customers. We do not all have the same purchasing power and inevitably, if google becomes a harbor for people with little or no cash that cost a lot in terms of usage (think users having several accounts maxed out at 2 GB of data on gmail and eliminating the ads, who permanently use gtalk, who never click on ads because they use programs that turn them off)…..well, we would need an economist to calculate all this but the bottomline is that if average revenue per user is not higher than average cost per user….there is a problem. [...]

By: miztiik

miztiik — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:55:41 +0000

does this work only in firefox

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By: Diskdr

Diskdr — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:48:23 +0000

The adds are sometimes annoying, if someone emails me with a computer problem and I email a quote for a job sometimes they are give relative adds for other computer repair services. The real problem here is how they scan your mail for keywords relavent to your particular email. I don’t buy into all that gmailistoocreepy.com stuff but its just something to think about. If your using it for business they are advertising your competition. The price you pay for almost 3 gigs I guess.

By: Bill Rawlinson

Bill Rawlinson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

funny, i never even really notice the google adds.. plus, I figure I can at least let them show up since they are giving me a gig of free space.

how annoying can they really be?

Plus, what happens if google classes something else with the table.metatable – something you need to see?

While it is always cool to see folks digging into the guts of things – I don’t know that hiding one thing today is safe for tomorrow.

By: Jim Rutherford

Jim Rutherford — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Good points Bill. Even though I can turn off the ads in GMail, I have chosen to display them. I often find some really useful links/products from the text ads.

I figured I would post the information, as I have seen alot of people posting about how they don’t like them.

By: Gary King

Gary King — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Unless I see the ad-space used then I don’t see much point for this.

I, too, do not notice the ads and don’t mind them being there, unless I can actually remove them in order to use that space to expand my email viewing area.