sifr and adblocktab=true

kemie · Post by **kemie** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:11 pm

previous versions of adblock created a div with an attribute of adblocktab=true.

this made it possible, in the implementation of sifr, to hide the tabs via css, using the rule

.sIFR-flash + div[adblocktab=true] {
display: none !important;
}

as well as hiding all tabs through a user stylesheet

but the attribute seems to be gone in the latest release.

is there a reason for the change?

goldman · Post by **goldman** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:57 pm

Perhaps the reason is, that I do not want the website to tell me what I should see and what not?

I use adblock to be able to block useless things. And when I enable these tabs, then I would like to see them. Always!

And an nice thread from the original adblock forum: http://aasted.org/adblock/viewtopic.php?t=1687

kemie · Post by **kemie** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:56 am

it's not a question of the website telling the user what to see, it's the other way around, about empowering the user. I personally do not want an adblock tab to appear on every single sifr implementation on every single site, so i've made a user stylesheet that removes them using the adblock=true property.

I see no reason to take it away, and was wondering if there is any.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:11 pm

kemie wrote:I see no reason to take it away, and was wondering if there is any.

It does tell the website Adblock is running on it...

mcm · Post by **mcm** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:53 am

Peng wrote:It does tell the website Adblock is running on it...

Not since Firefox 1.5 or higher, and if it can then it's actually a security issue because the website could inject malicious code.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:07 am

mcm wrote:Not since Firefox 1.5 or higher, and if it can then it's actually a security issue because the website could inject malicious code.

Hi mcm!

Um. Okay. *Uncertain nod*

kemie · Post by **kemie** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:30 pm

so... could we have adblock=true back? please?

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:33 pm

No, this attribute was always something I intended to fix. We really don't want to tell the web site that Adblock Plus is there. The change had also technical reasons since the object tabs don't always follow the object now.

You can whitelist the SIFR object, it will hide the object tabs as well.

kemie · Post by **kemie** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:28 pm

wladimir, any explanation for us non-techies on how to "whitelist the sIFR object" ?

sheepy · Post by **sheepy** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:24 am

The usual way you whitelist an object, I think?
e.g. @@domain.com/*/*.swf

kemie · Post by **kemie** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:19 pm

i thought he meant a way to block all tabs within a sifr object in all sites, not on a per-domain basis...

helping ghost · Post by **helping ghost** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:45 pm

@@sifr

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:15 pm

An example: on ABC News Adblock Plus offers me to block http://a.abcnews.com/flash/subhead2.swf. Now I know that this is SIFR and entirely harmless. So I can add an exception rule for this address:

Code: Select all

@@http://a.abcnews.com/flash/subhead2.swf

That's it, Adblock Plus doesn't show tabs for objects that match an exception rule.