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Oh, I don't say it doesn't help - the attention coming from fligtar's blog post is certainly worth a lot more than reddit users who will be gone the minute the link disappears from the front page. But fligtar won't help me stress-test the server.

Despite my utmost respect for Foxiewire, it doesn't generate 5000 clicks per hour ;)

My two years old blog post made the front page on reddit: http://adblockplus.org/blog/anatomy-of-ads Right now it is number 7 on reddit and apparently stayed somewhere around that position for the last 14 hours. The blog post had 24 comments in 10 hours (when I checked my mail this morning I thought...

EasyList is being sync'ed with the CVS on mozdev.org, so there is a history available there: http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/adb ... ick752.txt. That's the last three months only however, MozDev is being used as download location since end of October.

You mean the sponsored links showing up in Google search? You will need to disable these two filters:

Yes, http://adblockplus.mozdev.org/easylist/adblock_rick752.txt.gz is what you will usually get when requesting http://adblockplus.mozdev.org/easylist/adblock_rick752.txt - unless a proxy or a firewall software prevents you from receiving gzip'ed data. That means that while EasyList is currently at ...

Interestingly, the week is still not over - the server is online despite the message on the first page. "Hacked by Marlanu" page is also still available - and even the forum, though now it is used exclusively by spammers. Oh, and the access statistics don't show any real change, still the ...

And while at it - maybe replace http://easylist.adblockplus.org/adblock ... ion071.gif by a current screenshot? Really, that one is ancient.

I entirely forgot that we also wanted a version of EasyList that is free of element hiding - this one is now available if somebody wants it: [url=abp://subscribe/?location=http%3A%2F%2Feasylist.adblockplus.org%2Fadblock_rick752_noelemhide.txt&title=EasyList%20without%20element%20hiding]Subscribe...

I said "intentionally" meaning that they really wanted their content to be in a <div> with that class name - but they didn't intend to trigger false positives in EasyList. Whitelisting them probably wouldn't be a good idea. Seeing that you have "#div(id^=advertisement)" and "...

Rick, they are not doing this to annoy you. If you check http://letemps.ch/Resource/SysConfig/We ... screen.css - they are styling the page differently depending on these classes. Please reconsider.

http://www.letemps.ch/ - the entire site is being hidden by the filter "#div(class*=advertisement)". That's because the content is wrapped in this DIV (intentionally this time):

For one of my Google searches the search page had following JavaScript code in it: (new Image()).src="http://id.google.com/verify/EAAAAO9zZOQIrfLb_YWVRZPOE2s.gif"; This loads the image http://id.google.com/verify/EAAAAO9zZOQIrfLb_YWVRZPOE2s.gif , apparently for tracking purposes (1x1 trans...

How would it be different from http://adblockplus.org/en/source#build?

Btw, why is it a single-choice poll? I have a dozen profiles across several applications

There has been an interesting development after EasyList and EasyElement have been merged - EasyList got a pretty solid increase, all users who have been using EasyList+EasyElement combined subscription before. As a result, last Monday EasyList for the first time exceeded 1 million downloads on a si...

lol
Background: http://adblockplus.org/blog/adblock-for ... on#c001529

I see a false positive on http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/cats/games/index.jhtml - the filter "nickjr.com##table[width="757"] tr:first-child" hides the entire content.

Another one: https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20442. Looks like unintentionally wrapping entire site content in a block meant for ads isn't quite uncommon.

Yes, definitely a good thing. I got a false positive complaint from a site owner yesterday - turns out they unintentionally wrapped the entire page content in a DIV with id="adheader". Now they got lots of complaints from users, otherwise they would have never noticed that bug :) Rick, I h...

Yes, all screenshot pages (like http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshot ... 13231.html) were rendered blank. Thanks, Rick.

Now that EasyElement is part of EasyList, it seems that you also need to disable these two filters: (have been testing on thedailywtf.com and heise.de)

tomopen, even without EasyElement you won't always have empty space instead of an ad - only if the webmaster explicitly reserved some space for the ads. My impression is however that most often this isn't the case.

rick752 wrote:The downside is that most element hides are "site specific" English-speaking domains ... which does little for,say, a strictly German-language user.

German users get to English-language sites occasionally, and even if not - no harm is done by rules that aren't being used.

I got a mail from a Gygia employee: I noticed that Gigya is being listed as an ad in your adblock add-on. I think this was done by mistake. Gigya is a flash tool that is used by web publishers to enable them to easily share content. Because we are listed on an ad server, many users on our partner si...

What would be the reasons?

(yes - you would need to update that "whitelist Google ads" topic to tell people which filters to disable but that's not a real reason)

Ok, what if I make an automatically generated version of EasyList with all element hiding rules removed? It wouldn't be advertised anywhere, other than in a comment in EasyList maybe. To lessen the confusion was exactly my idea. Right now you can have four different combinations with Rick's subscrip...

First of all, he should have kept up - even dutchblock came around very soon and started to provide the filters in the same format as everybody else. A separate updater extension made sense when Adblock didn't have that functionality but Adblock Plus became the more popular extension a while ago alr...

Just a note: the list of recommendations in Adblock Plus 1.0.1 will list lots of EasyList supplement subscriptions. All of those already include EasyElement, only exception being Corset. PS: As to other ad blockers - that's really their problem. Nobody contacted me asking whether it is ok to use Eas...

After http://adblockplus.org/blog/filtersetg-webpage-has-been-hacked and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468663 I now see this on pierceive.com: pierceive.com will be PERMANTENLY taken down within the next week. I'm out of donation money, and I can't afford to keep the site up out of po...

The checksum is removed from the list on download - but it is being considered.