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by jrossiter_pheedo
Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:36 pm
Forum: Report incorrectly removed content
Topic: Pheedo
Replies: 9
Views: 4159

Re: Pheedo

Thank you - I clearly misunderstood your response.

Full blocking (for the US site) would be two rules, which is why I used the regex in the first example.
.pheedo.com/img.phdo? (RSS ads)
.pheedo.com/ad.php? (website ads)
by jrossiter_pheedo
Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:55 pm
Forum: Report incorrectly removed content
Topic: Pheedo
Replies: 9
Views: 4159

Re: Pheedo [n/a]

I understand that you're not responsible for their action, but the rule that you're using is too broad even if you ignore the non-ABP blockers. You're blocking more than just advertising and it impacts users. Simply by modifying that rule you alleviate the issue entirely. Why do you have resistance ...
by jrossiter_pheedo
Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:15 pm
Forum: Report incorrectly removed content
Topic: Pheedo
Replies: 9
Views: 4159

Re: Pheedo

A user-initiated click would be something that the user clicked on in-browser, not an in-page reference (img/script/etc.). Mozilla, and from what I've seen IE, adblockers are smart enough to understand that if a user intentionally initiates a content request (via titlebar, or clicking on a link in-p...
by jrossiter_pheedo
Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:48 am
Forum: Report incorrectly removed content
Topic: Pheedo
Replies: 9
Views: 4159

Pheedo

The ".pheedo." block is too generic, and is impacting some non-ABP ad blockers (Notably in Safari) which are not smart enough to allow user-initiated clicks to occur. This is causing some users who click on content URLs to be shown error messages or white screens. In the interests of our c...