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Does this site breach Anti-adblock policy?

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:02 pm
by crazyskeggy
The policy I am referencing is:
The user must be the only one in control of the filters required for the purpose of the anti-adblock message. It must not be possible for external sources to add, modify or remove any rules remotely.
(Taken from https://easylist.adblockplus.org/blog/2 ... ite-admins)

The site I believe to be in breach of these rules is www.refunder.se - a user at AdBlocksend us an ad report which contained the following custom filter list: http://www.refunder.se/adblock/filter/abp which I immediately investigated.

This could be a breach because they are able to update that to add more whitelists or change it at their whim, not at the user's decision. Even adding blacklists for competitors (which would be a really bad idea causing more hassle for all of us).

Re: Does this site breach Anti-adblock policy?

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:14 am
by fanboy
I didn't see anything obvious even under a .se vpn, is there some re-producible steps?

Re: Does this site breach Anti-adblock policy?

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:14 am
by crazyskeggy
It was more the fact that I saw the list and it looks like it might be a list a website has made to let a user just click a button to whitelist the site, but technically it would breach this rule though, right?

Re: Does this site breach Anti-adblock policy?

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:24 am
by MonztA
crazyskeggy wrote:...but technically it would breach this rule though, right?
Yes.