Digs down into the nasty details of your ad units

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rabbithole Extension

As a publisher on the web today, you may have a love-hate relationship with ad networks. On one hand, those ad networks help to pay the bills. But on the other hand, their questionable coding abilities, poor security, and dubious business practices expose you to all sorts of problems.

Our team has spent countless hours dissecting the DOM to try to track down offending ads. This is tedious work, especially when an ad call gets bounced from network to network, creating an extremely complex DOM of nested IFRAMEs.

rabbithole is designed to streamline this process. Using a CSS selector provided by you, it identifies the top-level DOM elements for your ad units. It then recursively descends those elements, building a simpler object model for you to analyze.

* simplifies the identification and interpretation of the ad-related portion of the DOM
* \"compresses\" the tree by skipping past DOM elements that aren't really important and only tracking select properties
* makes off-site objects easily identifiable
* tries to identify pixel trackers
* tries to identify the DOM elements that are most likely the ad creative itself
* attempts to keep track of a \"network path\" so you can see the whole ad chain where ads are coming from; this is a work in progress
* computes statistics like the number of scripts and iframes loaded beneath each node in the tree

In order for rabbithole to work with your site, you need to give it a CSS selector that will capture all the top-level DOM elements of your ad units (and is specific enough to *not* capture non-ad-unit elements).

For example, if you look at the ad tags on http://slashdot.org/, you will see that they all have IDs like \"div-gpt-ad-728x90_a\" and \"div-gpt-ad-300x250_a\". You can capture them all with a selector like

[id*='div-gpt-ad']

Once you have your selector, use the options dialog to configure rabbithole. You can open it either from the extensions page in chrome, or by clicking on the gear icon in the rabbithole popup window. If you have a rabbithole window open when you change the CSS selector, you'll need to close rabbithole and reopen it to get it to rescan your page's DOM.

Source: https://github.com/jpriebe/rabbithole
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "rabbithole", "description": "Digs down into the nasty details of your ad units", "version": "1.0.1", "options_ui": { "page": "options.html", "chrome_style": true }, "permissions": [ "tabs", "activeTab", "webNavigation", "storage" ], "browser_action": { "default_title": "rabbithole: dig deep into ad units" }, "icons": { "16": "icon16.png", "48": "icon48.png", "128": "icon128.png" }, "background": { "scripts": ["background.js"] }, "content_scripts": [{ "all_frames": true, "js": [ "content.js" ], "match_about_blank": true, "matches": [ "\\u003Call_urls>" ], "run_at": "document_idle" }], "web_accessible_resources": [ "getFrameId" ]}
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How to download and manually install rabbithole extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install rabbithole extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install rabbithole extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install rabbithole extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download rabbithole extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a rabbithole extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the rabbithole Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the rabbithole extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the rabbithole extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for rabbithole extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the rabbithole extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download rabbithole extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install rabbithole extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the rabbithole extension file

Select and download the rabbithole extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the rabbithole extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your rabbithole extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the rabbithole extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install rabbithole extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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