Using Adblock Plus with the easy list on Firefox, i have a website where product images are blocked.
The offending rule is _300x250_ , which is used to describe the size of the images.
The path is:
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/resources/uploads/bestanden/_300x250_crop_center-center/motorcilinder-2.jpgChecked with the latest list available. (updated "just now")
I see that the underscores in the message itself are turned into italics.
The rule that's causing the issue is correctly visible in the title of this post.
Still present and blocked...
So bump!
We're not making any generic exception rule for this, it will be abused.
how do you mean generic exception rule?
You are supposed to be blocking advertisements, not random generic URL segments that can be used for anything, right?
Are you guys really just blocking generic image sizes because ads use those too?
Or am i missing something?
@fanboy (or any other author) can you be more precise?
Why would _300x250_ on its own only be abused, and any other random value not?
What is stopping advertisers to make it _301x251_ instead for example?
I understand that you hate ads, i dislike them too.
But is that really a reason to not un-break websites your filters broke?
I've got a set of sites that are being impacted by this same issue. Images that are resized get _XXXxYYY.jpg suffix added to their filename, but are just normal site images and not ads. 300x250 was the resize profile for a lot of photos and logos. Our current solution is to not use the dimensions that you guys are filtering, but it looks like there are 34 size combinations in the list, so it's probably going to become a recurring issue for us to deal with.
Hello webguy,
It has been almost 2 months since i first posted this thread.
Their response to this and other threads has been pretty clear.
It's basically a "Won't fix; working as intended".
Currently you have been doing exactly what i described in my post above.
They will probably add those sizes to the list too eventually, or make it a generalized rule for all dimensions.
As i see it, you have 2 options:
Please keep me updated, as i would like to see where this is going.
Also, out of curiosity, can i know what sites this happens on?
(If you don't want it public, you can opt to DM or Mail)
Good luck and have a nice day,
abp_user
We can't change it, it'll allow ads. we can't make an exception because it'll be open to abuse. The only solution is the site to change.
Now i want to set up an advert system you cant block...
Just to spite the idea that it's okay to break websites.
Expect me to post something in the other category after a few days/weeks. ;)
