Doubleclick in Flash videos.

[ant]

I am posting in here because Martin Lindhe, the maintainer of AdblockRules.com/.org, couldn't fix this issue:

http://www.videosift.com/video/10-Slutt ... ury-Povich

Embedded video from www.liquidgeneration.com server doesn't load. I was using AdblockRules.com 1/18/2009 filter in ABP v1.01 and SeaMonkey v1.1.14.

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He replied:

"I have attempted to fix loading of the link you sent me.
The problem is that this site is using doubleclick.net as a
required part of the loading mechanism of the flash video player.
Since doubleclick.net is serving alot of ads all over the internet,
removing that rule from the ruleset is also not wanted.

Unfortunately, I do not know how to fix the ruleset currently.
A website specific fix could be made using greasemonkey.

Or easier yet, you just disable adblock plus on the specific site.

This type of forced advertising is quite new but I'm afraid
we'll see more of it in the future to counter adblockers."


Will there be solutions of this trick since more sites will be using this method?

Thank you in advance.

[Adblock Plus Fan]

Will there be solutions of this trick since more sites will be using this method?

He could revise his doubleclick.net filter like Easylist did.

Or change it to exempt the videosift.com domain specifically:

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doubleclick.net$domain=~videosift.com

(his original filter was doubleclick.net)
or

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.doubleclick.net/$domain=~videosift.com

Doing this will make the doubleclick.net filter work on all sites as usual, except for when you browse the videosift.com domain.

It might be a good idea to inform him about the new Domain restriction features.

[ant]

Dang, there is another one but on myspace.com with its minisodes:

Example: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... D=48593191


doubleclick.net$domain=~videosift.com
http://ad.doubleclick.net/crossdomain.xml

adblockrules.org (1/31/2009)

[Adblock Plus Fan]

Example: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... D=48593191

Well, maybe I'm in the wrong country or something but they won't let me see that video even without ABP blocking anything so I can't check anything there.

Another thing:

doubleclick.net$domain=~videosift.com

I looks like he changed his filter to doubleclick.net$domain=~videosift.com|*.myspace.com
First is, wildcards won't work for domain restrictions.
Secondly, he needs the tilde symbol "~" if he wants to exempt a specific domain from a blocking filter.

So it should probably look like this instead:

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doubleclick.net$domain=~videosift.com|~vid.myspace.com

Although I can't see if this works or not since I can't see the video.