Blocking Ads on Funimation

Well, I finally got sick of seeing the same National Grid commercial on Funimation for the one-thousandth time so I’ve come up with a strategy for blocking ads on their site.

You’ll need the following chrome plugin to get this to work correct:

1. Custom JavaScript for websites to inject custom javascript into the loading page.

Funimation will load a blockadblock.js file when it detects adblockplus which will place four black overlay divs over the video content.

At first, I attempted to block the blockadblock.js http get request, but the other funimation javascript code depends on it.

What we’ll do instead is to load a timer that looks specifically for those div elements and will remove them from the page.

Code Snippet and Example

Javascript

// Create interval to repeatedly remove 'funimation-error-screen' every half second.
setInterval(function(){ $("funimation-error-screen").remove() }, 500);

CJS Settings

The plugin should load this javascript before the page loads and will eliminate the black overlay when they pop up.

Pretty simple solution for what was looking like a complex problem.

Hopefully this helps!

**Edit: It appears that loading JQuery onto the page blocks the Pause button.

You can do the same with Vanilla javascript using the following code:

// Create interval to repeatedly remove 'funimation-error-screen' every half second.
var timer = window.setInterval(function(){
  var elem = document.getElementById("funimation-error-screen");
  if(elem === null) return;
  elem.parentNode.removeChild(elem);
},100);