EasyList hypocrisy

Adblock Plus Fan · Post by **Adblock Plus Fan** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:11 am

Interesting, I never had the impression that webmaster actually needed to appeal to the adcompanies. Like adsense, I thought anybody could easily sign up for it.

In any case if that is true then we are contributing to the statistics an multiple levels.
For the webmasters to appeal to the adcompany.
As well as for the adcompanies to appeal to the clients they serve ads for.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:37 am

Good reading mrbene. Interesting analogy.

I would comment, but who would listen to me ... a thief hell-bent on hypocrisy.

mrbene · Post by **mrbene** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:43 am

rick752 wrote:I would comment, but who would listen to me ... a thief hell-bent on hypocrisy.

Hmm... I think you've got a small number of people waiting on your every keystroke. On the front of statistics and audiences, have you considered updating the Easylist subscription numbers?

/mrbene

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:55 am

Hmm... I think you've got a small number of people waiting on your every keystroke. On the front of statistics and audiences, have you considered updating the Easylist subscription numbers?

/mrbene

I usually do that after the beginning of a new month on the previous month's statistics. I can only do a analysis of my numbers after Wladimir manually updates the 'easylist.adblockplus.org' stats and uploads them to a page for me. The last numbers I have are from the first week of July. He hasn't been around much since he moved back to Germany and got a new job. Hope he shows up soon.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:59 am

@mrbene:

Actually, I just realized we are on the ABP forum. I keep the running stats here:

http://www.richsterling.com/forum/viewt ... f=23&t=679

mrbene · Post by **mrbene** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:25 am

Nifty-cool

IceDogg · Post by **IceDogg** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:13 am

Thanks mrbene, I get what your saying.

Adblock Plus Fan · Post by **Adblock Plus Fan** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:59 am

Guys he did it, the definitive solution....

http://www.adsensechat.com/showthread.p ... #post33191
This is such a sad day. ADBLOCK PLUS IS GOING TO DIEEEE!!booohoooo

We should not have pissed off programmers...

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:04 am

Yeah and it has been continuing tonite at a topic near you:
http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=12332

ecjs · Post by **ecjs** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:17 am

helping ghost · Post by **helping ghost** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:53 am

Is this script running on jacklewis.net/weblog/ ?
If yes, then why I am able to watch this page without google-ads and blogadsswap (both are blocked)? I am even able to hide the whole left sidebar with 100 useless links and images. Still no alert.

Javascript is enabled. No Greasemonkey, NoScript or other extension involved.

What I am doing wrong?

Adblock Plus Fan · Post by **Adblock Plus Fan** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:19 pm

helping ghost wrote:Is this script running on jacklewis.net/weblog/ ?

That page is full of lols

(Removed site) is the one you want to play with

helping ghost · Post by **helping ghost** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:30 pm

The script works there. But disable JS or use NoScript and finito. Nothing to worry about.

mrbene · Post by **mrbene** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:40 pm

Interesting.

It's a cumbersome technique that Jack has come up with - at least when it comes to implementation, updates, and client side load. It works, it can be circumvented - but the circumvention is out of scope of Adblock Plus. Because realistically, if a site wants to prevent users from accessing it, then there are no ads to block

If the technique gets any significant adoption, there are a couple of methods that could be used to handle it. Off the top of my head:

- A plug-in that created properly named 1x1 iframe elements on all pages. Adblock Plus blocks by URL and not by iFrame name, while Jack's script blocks when a specific iFrame name is absent.

- Using BlockSite to prevent the redirection to the "Stop Thief" URL.

Exciting times.

/mrbene.

Adblock Plus Fan · Post by **Adblock Plus Fan** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:37 pm

mrbene wrote:- Using BlockSite to prevent the redirection to the "Stop Thief" URL.

Tested and proven. That is probably the most userfriendly solution so far.

Lol you just completely ruined all the guys efforts