Whitelisted site still blocks an image

[wolfsong]

I'm having trouble whitelisting http://musicbrainz.org. There is an icon that remains blocked for some reason when I visit this page. I should see a
icon in the middle cell of the bright orange table row.

When I click the Adblock link and scroll through the display, http://musicbrainz.org/images/mblookup-tagger.png is in italics and when I select it the following appears in the box.

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/[^a-z\d=+%@](\w*\d+x\d)?\d*(show)?(\w{3,}%20|alligator|avs|barter|blog|box|central|context|crystal|d?html|exchange|external|forum|front|fuse|gen|get|house|hover|http|i?frame|inline|instant|live|main|mspace|net|partner|php|primary|provider|redir\W.*\W|rotated?|secure|side|smart|sponsor|story|text|view|web)?_?ads?(v?(bot|brite|broker|bureau|butler|cent(er|ric)|click|client|content|coun(cil|t(er)?)|creative|cycle|data(id)?|engage|entry|er(tis\w+|t(pro)?|ve?r?)|farm|force|form|frame(generator)?|gen|gif|groupid|head|ima?ge?|index|info|js|juggler|layer|legend|link|log|man(ager)?|max|mentor(serve)?|meta\.com|net|optimi[sz]er|peeps|pic|po(ol|pup|sition)|proof|q\.nextag|re(dire?c?t?|mote|volver)|rom\.net|rotator|sale|script|sdk|sfac|size|so(lution|nar|urce)|space|srv|stat.*\.asp|sys|(tag)?track|trix|type|view|vt|x\.nu|zone))?s?\d*(status)?\d*(?!\.org)[\W_](?!\w+\.(ac\.|edu)|astra|aware|adurl=|block|login|nl\/|sears\/|.*(&sbc|\.(wmv|rm)))/

I'm not sure what the italics are or what the above does.

[Alan]

I'm having trouble whitelisting http://musicbrainz.org.

Add @@musicbrainz.org to your site whitelist. Open Adblock Preferences->Adblock Options->Site Blocking/Whitelist
Enter @@musicbrainz.org as the Address of web site:, check Enable Site Blocking/Whitelisting and press OK. I just tested it out and it works for me. Hope this helps. Let me know whether it does for you.
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[wolfsong]

yes it's working now. so what's the difference between adding from the main dialog? that's what i originally did.

[Alan]

yes it's working now. so what's the difference between adding from the main dialog? that's what i originally did.

Good question. It brings up a couple of different points.

1) The site whitelisting that I suggested turns off ad blocking for all of the elements on a page, even if they come from another web site. Normal whitelisting on the main dialog only turns off ad blocking for elements served by the whitelisted site itself.

2) So why didn't it work for the Tagger element? Its address is http://musicbrainz.org/images/mblookup-tagger.png which should have been unblocked, right? Not quite, because the Tagger links to
http://127.0.0.1:8000/openalbum?id=b62d ... 1135848683, and that link matches the filter you mentioned. You can turn off that behavior by unchecking Check Parent Links, but most filter sets usually work better if that option is checked.

Hope this helps clear things up a bit. Adblock Plus is a very powerful piece of work.