[FM Discuss] adblock plus issue

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 23:57, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> its working now on booki and fm so we dont get blocked. phew. however we
> need to work out a rule for the filter to ensure that this filter list
> does not block other booki instances.
>
> if anyone wants to crunch their brain on this feel free to look at the
> filters rules:
> http://fanboy-adblock-list.googlecode.com/hg/fanboy-adblocklist-current-expanded.txt
>
> and work out what is going on. the changes fanboy made were :
> @@/xinha/plugins/DoubleClick/DoubleClick.$domain=booki.flossmanuals.net|booki.cc,script
>
> but that is not sufficient as it is domain specific

Yah, and this is the problem.

At the moment we can get away with asking for an expemption on *xinha*
but if I'm not mistaken that's a namespace hangover from TikiWiki,
rather than something specific - and since we can't guarantee that
there will never be an ad-robot using the world xinha in it's
namespace, it will have to happen some other way.

The only thing I can think of is vigilance, and understanding that
this may be an issue - programmatically, every time I think "we could
do..." I realise that it's reverse engineerable and a poor substitute.
(eg, replace string xinha with other string, "booki" for instance, and
ask that it's whitelisted. But then an adserver sees that, and does
/s/adserver/booki/ on all it's namespaces and adblock is broke...)

cheers
L.

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