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ABP Japanese Filters removed
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:57 am
by Gingerbread Man
Removed ABP Japanese Filters from the list until they stop blocking foreign-language websites
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hg.adblockplus.org/subscriptionlist/rev/b25d041b88ba
Wasn't the list actually whitelisting the whole .fr TLD?
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adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=57985#p57985
I'm also wondering how it came to this.
- Aren't filter subscription authors able to ignore reports if they so choose? Like not getting e-mail notifications, that this particular author was complaining about?
- What happens in the case of multiple subscriptions? Does everyone get notified? I imagine it's not uncommon to have a general subscription and one or more non-English ones.
Re: ABP Japanese Filters removed
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:16 am
by lewisje
IIRC the author of the ABP Japanese Filters list was keeping ABP from blocking any content from .fr domains, to cut down on the annoying reports he was receiving from people who clearly weren't Japanese-speakers.
Re: ABP Japanese Filters removed
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:44 pm
by Hubird
Re: ABP Japanese Filters removed
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:42 pm
by anonymous74100
Since it's considered a
malicious filter subscription, why wasn't a
redirect added to move users to an
non-malicious Japanese subscription.
Re: ABP Japanese Filters removed
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:43 pm
by lewisje
The author of the malevolent list didn't host it on any server that Palant & Co. control.
Re: ABP Japanese Filters removed
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:20 am
by Gingerbread Man
lewisje wrote:IIRC the author of the ABP Japanese Filters list was keeping ABP from blocking any content from .fr domains,
That's what I said, and the opposite of what the removal reason says.
lewisje wrote:to cut down on the annoying reports he was receiving from people who clearly weren't Japanese-speakers.
Which is silly and self-defeating. It's just asking for a torrent of false negative reports.
See the topic I linked to in my original post?