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Forwarding a report I got by mail:

when you view http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/geeks-technology for example, adblock filters removes a lot of the tshirt images. I was able to view them fine when I disable adblock or whitelist cafepress.

Usually, if the website needs to check plug-ins for anything other than tracking, it is interested in only one of them. The full list of plug-ins is only interesting for tracking users (as an additional distinction criterion) or for statistics.

FYI: http://research.zscaler.com/2009/05/take-my-plugin-data-please.html EasyPrivacy has some generic filters to block requests listing referrer. How about blocking requests listing user's installed plug-ins as well? Something like "*Mozilla%20Default%20Plug-in*" will usually do, this plug...

Has been fixed on their side.

Got a mail from the webmaster of alaskaslist.com. Here are example pages: http://alaskaslist.com/1/posts/13_Pets/71_Dogs/ http://alaskaslist.com/1/posts/13_Pets/71_Dogs/20931_Adorable_Mini_Dachshund_Puppy_Wants_You_.html These wrongly trigger a bunch of generic element hiding rules: ##*[class^="...

Diese Regel verursacht eine Fehlermeldung: "Selector expected. Ruleset ignored due to bad selector."

Sollte wahrscheinlich heissen:

Ok, I tried clicking "Older version" at it still hangs when opening an email with this request blocked. I guess with "ui=2" it should be fine.

Don't know, did you try whether this problem even still exists in old Gmail interface?

Open http://planet.mozilla.org/- lots of addresses like http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/6908157607071331753-7980052363998908839?l=livetolaugh85.blogspot.com are loaded, 1x1 tracking GIFs. Apparently, all Blogger.com blogs do this in their RSS feeds. blogblog.com is a general resources domain for th...

Fanboy, please check this: http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 4522#14522

mactechnews.de hat einen Haufen first-party Werbung auf der Seite. Dieser Filter versteckt sie zuverlaessig: mactechnews.de##DIV.CommercialPanel EasyList Germany hat bereits den Filter "mactechnews.de#div(class*=Advertisement)" - dieser greift aber nicht, wahrscheinlich hat sich das Seiten...

I don't consider forking the list a solution. I am still in the process of discussing the matter with loveleeyoungae and I hope that the efforts of the Vietnamese community will not be slit between two lists.

@Ares2: Sorry, I should have been more explicit - I already wrote much in a mail and didn't want to repeat it here. The problem is that bkav.com.vn isn't an advertising domain at all from what it seems. It is the web site of a legitimate anti-virus company - which isn't just being blocked, there is ...

I didn't receive any answer from filter list maintainer. Viet Nam List will no longer be a recommendation in Adblock Plus 1.0.2 - at least until I see that user feedback is taken seriously there.

Got an email from the site owner of advertise4free.org which apparently has issues with the "/adverti$image,script,object" filter in EasyList: My website is a advertisement forum where people can sign up and advertise there forum or website. It doesnt contain anything like pop ups or anyth...

Yes, Rick's advice is quite a bit older than these options.

Btw, how about cleaning out some of these? E.g. "@@.1800flowers.com/*/banners/$domain=1800flowers.com" - changing "/banners/*.gif$third-party" into "/banners/*.gif$third-party,domain=~1800flowers.com" is sufficient now.

And of course, as Wladimir advised, you should disable ABP whenever you get to commercial sites. No, I never advised that. Actually, I even implemented $third-party and $domain options to help filter list maintainers deal with the case where something is an advertisement everywhere but on its own d...

Yes, the weatherbug image is apparently being loaded by a frame from weather.weatherbug.com. Meaning that the original filter can be changed into "/728x90/*$domain=~weather.weatherbug.com" without any whitelists.

Here is an example video that a user sent me: http://www.revver.com/video/89072/wanna-work-together/ At the end of the video you are shown some Google ads. These are allowed because the filter for Google ads explicitly states $~object-subrequest. This is with a good reason - if you disallow access t...

Reposting from http://adblockplus.org/blog/what-is-going-on-with-easylist : EasyList development has to continue, despite the sad events . Many of you already know Ares2, he is a very active (and helpful) member of both EasyList and Adblock Plus forums. He has been maintaining a German complementary...

Fanboy, whay you quote as "non-ad" has mostly ad content in it. Looks like this link is coming from an auction page, see above for a detailed analysis of what that script inserts into the page. PS: The "callback" parameter is a reference to the code that will be processing the re...

I tried to figure out what the blocked scripts do. An example page: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250323806932 If you look at "Buyer protection on eBay", it is empty. If you disable ".ebayrtm.com/rtm?rtmcmd&a=json" however, you will see http://pics.eb...

Reported as bug 20666: http://gerardoboscarino.com/ becomes unusable because of this filter in EasyList:

_files/*htm|$subdocument,domain=~militaryreligiousfreedom.org

A message from an eBay employee (reached me indirectly, so I cannot ask more questions): I have a pressing question regarding a recent update to Adblock Plus' Easylist banner blocking strings. They have (as of 4th March) pushed out an update that blocks *.ebayrtm.* URLs. The issue we're having is th...

I received a mail from a Loomia.com employee: To be clear Loomia is not an advertisement module. We help site visitors find what they are most interested in from the publishers content and we work with some of the largest media publishers on the web like, The Wall Street Journal Online, Forbes.com, ...

Got a mail asking about "flash overlay ads" on justin.tv - if you open a video you will get a text ad at the bottom. This blocks it:

Yes, that's pretty common. c't 4/2009 for example has some "essential" applications on a DVD - including Firefox and five add-ons (GreaseMonkey, Flashblock, Adblock Plus, Firebug, DOM Inspector).

Btw, everything is back to normal again. "Anatomy of ads" blog post has been viewed more than 60000 times. The effect on Adblock Plus downloads: zero.

Have a link? I wonder what exactly "for Safari" means.