Blocked Images in Google Products [white]

[joeysazo]

Hi, Rick.

First off, thanks for all your work putting these wonderful lists together. Incredible stuff!

I did get one false positive tonight, though, when searching at Google Products. The product images are blocked by:
?*http*&$image

One example is searching for "DVD": http://www.google.com/products?q=dvd&bt ... en&show=dd

Thanks again for the lists and regularly maintaining them!


Edit: I neglected to mention that I added a whitelist to circumvent the FP:
@@http://base.googlehosted.com/base_media?q=*

Does the job but thought I'd report it anyways.

[rick752]

Thanks for the kudos. Joey

You are "right on" with the targeted whitelist rule. I just added "$image" to the end of it so that it ONLY allows images from that source. That way the possibility of any sneaky scripting can't get through.

I added the whitelist ONLY because it is such a large site.

I always recommend that users disable ABP when they are shopping online because there is always the chance of false positives with shopping sites simply because of the nature of the structure and filenames associated with those (you also may miss some relative ads on the pages too). It just makes sense :
http://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=662

Added

[joeysazo]

Thanks Rick for the quick reply.

Great idea to turn off ABP when shopping... I'm so accustomed to blocking ads it's strange to see them every now and then.