[Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com

[Marijo]

Hi Hubird,

on this page over at arstechnica.com,

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http://static.arstechnica.net/assets/2011/04/facebook-lockdown-paint-ars-thumb-640xauto-21476.jpg

gets blocked by

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/facebook-$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net|~labs.popcap.com|~linkedin.com|~ghsrv.com|~zynga.com|~mixx.com|~twitter.com

Regards,
Marijo

[Hubird]

Fixed,

Thanks Marijo

[Marijo]

Au contraire! Thank you!

By the way, any chance you can add my hiding rule arstechnica.com###fb to your filter list?
This hides a remnant of the FB Like box on the right side of the page ("Disable Facebook on Ars").

[Marijo]

Hubird, I just noticed that you've fixed the issue with the following filter/whitelist:

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@@||arstechnica.net^*/facebook-lockdown-$image

What about images that are named differently like for example .../facebook-blows-up...? You'd have to put that on the whitelist too, right?
Why not add ~arstechnica.com to the filter that actually blocks the image?
Like this:

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/facebook-$domain=~arstechnica.com|~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net|~labs.popcap.com|~linkedin.com|~ghsrv.com|~zynga.com|~mixx.com|~twitter.com

Oh, and here's another example where an image gets blocked:

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http://static.arstechnica.net/facebook_dc_ars.jpg

blocked by

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/facebook_$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net|~labs.popcap.com|~linkedin.com|~ghsrv.com|~zynga.com|~mixx.com|~twitter.com|~tv.com

Any ideas?

[Hubird]

Can you please give me some example pages for any remaining false positives.

eg: where do you see

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http://static.arstechnica.net/facebook_dc_ars.jpg

I seem to remember having issues with arstechnica.com in the past. Domain exceptions have their place if there isn't much chance of another filter taking over where the old one left off (the Antisocial list is not the easiest list to maintain ) , or where the end user might want to block the image in their personal list. On problematic domains however, I figure it is probably best to whitlelist the item to prevent further issues arising.

By the way, any chance you can add my hiding rule arstechnica.com###fb to your filter list?

At the moment the Antisocial list contains generic rules only (rules that sound like they could work on other pages too).

I added

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~facebook.com,~facebook.net,~fbcdn.com,~fbcdn.net,~labs.popcap.com###fb

Let's see how that goes.

[Marijo]

Sorry! Here's the link:
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/04 ... m-more.ars
Thanks for adding the hiding rule!

[Marijo]

Here's another example:

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http://static.arstechnica.com/2010/05/14/facebook_securityquestion.jpg

gets blocked by

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/facebook_$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net|~labs.popcap.com|~linkedin.com|~ghsrv.com|~zynga.com|~mixx.com|~twitter.com|~tv.com

If there's no general way to unblock these images, then I guess whitelisting is kinda pointless.
To be honest, I'd rather see Antisocial block a bit too much than too little. Sacrificing the maintainability of the list for a few blocked images is not worth it IMHO.

[Hubird]

Can you test if adding:

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@@/facebook-$image,object,domain=arstechnica.com
@@/facebook_$image,domain=arstechnica.com

The above 2 whitelists is acceptable (shows all legit images and does not allow anything it shouldn't).

Disable the existing whitelist.

[Marijo]

Your 2 filters seem to do the trick!
I've searched for "Facebook" on arstechnica.com which gave me a couple of more examples where images are blocked and they show up just fine now.

[Hubird]

I've removed the old whitelist and added the 2 new ones.

Hopefully that does the trick, thanks for you help (and patience ).

[Marijo]

I've checked even more articles and I can't seem to find any anomalies whatsoever:
What has to be blocked, is blocked. What has to be let through, is let through.
Thanks!