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Metadata in acceptable ads list

Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:40 pm
by rdsteed
I'm new to Adblock Plus. Thanks for what looks to be a great addition to my browser.

I was curious on how large the "non-intrusive advertising" whitelist is. I opened it and saw the following header:

[Adblock Plus 2.0]
! Checksum: u5irc2BrG7tB/xlW4ytTEw
! Version: 201401271831
! Expires: 1 days
! Text-based search ads on netzwelt.de

Two suggestions for inclusion in the header:
1. File length
2. Checksum method (eg md5, crc32, sha1, etc).

Dennis

Re: Metadata in acceptable ads list

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 12:07 pm
by guest
1. File length
Wouldn't give much information as the number of filters needed to whitelist one website (or a part of one website) varies a lot.
Better follow the acceptable ads stats like: blog/acceptable-ads-by-the-numbers or the number of topics on forum/viewforum.php?f=12 (approx. one per website)

2. Checksum method (eg md5, crc32, sha1, etc)
By default Adblock Plus uses an md5 checksum: en/filters#special-comments