Adblock blocking attachments in Yahoo Mail

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:53 pm

@nischwartz: I am now sure that the Yahoo developers simply have a bug in their code - they forgot to increase a counter variable. I sent a full description of this issue and the proposed solution to Ratan Hudda, lets hope this way we will get a reaction sooner than usually when you try to contact Yahoo's support.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:01 am

Mine with ABP and all of my filters enabled

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:04 am

Rick, now try blocking your logo in this message.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:13 am

I can't because it is embedded in the message ... not a request.

So you are you saying that if a blocked item is included in the html of an email message, that it will cause the entire message box to fail? That sux!

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:14 am

Same issue but without Adblock: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla. ... a725adc951

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:28 am

Oh. Well....

... does this repair the problem?

Code: Select all

@@|http://*mail.yahoo.

(there are still no ads if the element filter is used)

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:32 am

It will make sure that Adblock doesn't block anything. But there are other things that can block images. And images can simply fail loading, for whatever reasons. This really has to be fixed at Yahoo.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:35 am

Wladimir Palant wrote:And images can simply fail loading, for whatever reasons. This really has to be fixed at Yahoo.

I absolutely agree. But at least it can get users through this until it is fixed without blaming us for it.

nischwartz · Post by **nischwartz** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:37 am

@rick752

How do I get that code? Do I need to wait for an update of the subscription?

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:44 am

@ nischwartz

I'll tell you what ... I'm going to add it as I still see no ads with the element filter used. Let me know how this works.

EasyList updated.

nischwartz · Post by **nischwartz** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:49 am

Just updated and it works now! This is great for me, but I hope yahoo fixes this issue for everyone else.

Thank you for all your hard work!

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:51 am

np. You're welcome

nischwartz · Post by **nischwartz** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:48 am

Now with the new filter, all adds on yahoo mail are showing up. This needs to be fixed!

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:57 am

I'm going to remove the general whitelist until I can isolate the actual message pane (see PM to you). If this is a problem for now, simply disable ABP if the message box doesn't appear. They should only be isolated instances.

I'll get to the bottom of this I hope.

(Whitelisting removed again)

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:23 am

OK, now this is really starting to annoy me.

Without a whitelist and linking to and "requesting" a known blocked item in an email that I sent to my Yahoo mail, it STILL doesn't give me this problem.

I'm at a loss.....