Dynamically-assembled Ads not being collected

[dhowe]

Page: http://vegetarian.about.com/od/glossary/g/Tempeh.htm

Chrome:

Firefox:

[cqx931]

This might not be a valid firefox problem.
There is a large chance that ads shown on this site are dynamically animated and those ads could not be collected by adnauseam.

If the ad is a proper image ad, firefox is able to collect it properly.

[dhowe]

what do you mean by "dynamically animated" ? you mean a text-ad that is updated over time ?

[cqx931]

In the above two ads, the first one is an "dynamically animated" one.
There are images and text and the layout and animation is done with css and javascript.
The second one is a text-ad.

[dhowe]

Am I correct then that these ads are not collected on Chrome OR Firefox?

[cqx931]

yes,they are not collected in any browser. It is kind of tricky to decide what shall be collected here... a similar case is ad drawn in a canvas.

[dhowe]

We're not seeing enough of this style of ad (either kind) to make it worth the time, however, it is a Google-served ad so it may be a sign of the future -- in any case, i will move this to possible futures and we can keep an eye open for similar cases...

[cqx931]

I think the trend is these two kinds of ad are becoming more and more popular, as it is faster to load than images. Canvas might be easier to deal with if we could just save one frame from the canvas. But I am not sure whether we could do something like a 'screen shot' for specific dom element.

[dhowe]

right, i've thought about this for videos as well... but lets keep on hold for now

[cqx931]

More test cases: (the content inside an ad iframe)
http://lab-lamp.scm.cityu.edu.hk/adntest/dynamicCases/case1.html
http://lab-lamp.scm.cityu.edu.hk/adntest/dynamicCases/case2.html