Privoxy: cannot get rid of google & facebook ads, or social buttons

Hi all,
I wanted to give privoxy a try. For starters, I'd like to do some adblocking, so I followed the wiki instructions for adblocking with privoxy. In particular, I used the privoxy-blocklist script the wiki mentions to download and use the following adblock lists:
easylist
easyprivacy
fanboy-annoyance
fanboy-social
fanboy-antifacebook
malwaredomains_full
void-gr-filters (for ads in Greek sites)
Also, again as per the wiki, I added
{+block-as-image{Facebook "like" and similar tracking URLs.}}
www.facebook.com/(extern|plugins)/(login_status|like(box)?|activity|fan)\.php
platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button?
plusone.google.com
in my /etc/privoxy/user.action file.
Although now I have adblocking working, I can't get rid of google ads, facebook ads, or social buttons (e.g. facebook like, etc).
I googled around, and tried all sorts of things. For instance, the following guides did not work for me:
http://www.willamowius.de/privoxy.html
http://superuser.com/questions/668608/c … th-privoxy
Any suggestions anybody?
EDIT: I'm using privoxy 3.0.21-2 with firefox 30
Last edited by geo909 (2014-06-25 21:36:31)

brebs wrote:
Are they textual ads, or pictures?
Textual ads are harder to get rid of - this is where greasemonkey is useful.
Thanks.. Though adblock plus would get rid of those. Also I wonder if installing privoxy and greasemonkey
slows down my firefox.. All in all, for ad blocking, I'm thinking of going back to adblock plus.

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