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AdBlock Plus being detected once again
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:07 am
by AdBlock Plus
This one is for v. .7.5.2
http://showip.net/adblock.php
dunno how it does it. since danny carlton took their script, wouldn't he also be stealing...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:57 am
by Reporter
You may workaround this script by spoofing your user agent.
It would say this instead:
You are not using Firefox
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:22 am
by jamieplucinski
You are using Firefox but Adblock Plus is not active
Updated! Now works with Adblock Plus 0.7.5.2 (released 21. September 2007)
... yeah sure it's not
I see a bunch of blocked Google AdWords that say different.
AdBlock Plus is installed *and* active, shows how reliable that code is.
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:02 am
by fanboy
the script doesn't pick up me, running linux/minefield. But still, it'd be nice to block certain javascript functions like this.
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:10 am
by chewey
Well, this is not an ABP detector, but one for EasyList
In fact,
all those detection scripts I've seen so far rely on a specific filter list
entry to block a certain string - and thus can be circumvented by whitelisting
that single element.
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:30 am
by mrbene
Both...
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if(Components.interfaces.nsIAdblockPlus != undefined) hasABP = true;
checks to see if the interfaces is available, which is most recently fixed. The second pass is the
function set_abp_status() which uses the honeypot style and actually detects filters, not ABP.
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:11 am
by Reporter
jamieplucinski wrote:You are using Firefox but Adblock Plus is not active
Updated! Now works with Adblock Plus 0.7.5.2 (released 21. September 2007)
... yeah sure it's not
I see a bunch of blocked Google AdWords that say different.
AdBlock Plus is installed *and* active, shows how reliable that code is.
Yes some scripts on the net can still detect Ablock by trying to identify a specific filter.
I am talking about is, for
this script particularly, when I switch the user agent, it simply shows up as:
"You are not using Firefox"
The script skip the parts which checks whether Firefox has installed AdBlock Plus or not, if it can't detect I'm using Firefox.
Haha... At least it works for this script.
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:15 am
by chewey
It really is funny, all those ABP detection script authors seem to have
never heard about
http://geckoisgecko.org/
In that case, this is a good thing
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:30 am
by Peng
Yeah, why are you helping them, chewey?
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:53 am
by Wladimir Palant
Yes, nothing to see here - if somebody likes detecting EasyList, so be it. Just don't complain when Rick decides to change his filters.