"/ads/" blocks "http://192.168.1.8:7467/icons

[bob_nugget]

A very weird behaviour here - that regexp syntax doesn't look wrong

I'm running Adblock Plus 0.5.11.2 on Firefox 1.5.0.1

[bob_nugget]

Hmm. that didn't work,

it should read

"/ads/"

blocks

"http://192.168.1.8:7467/icons/small/dir.gif"

but not

"http://192.168.1.8:7467/icons/small/text.gif"

[mcm]

I would use a filter like "/\Wads?\W/" instead of "/ads/". See this thread for details:
http://p2.forumforfree.com/ads-blocks-q ... kplus.html

Sometimes there are redirection links that will look like "http://ad.com/serve.cgi" which actually load content at say "http://site.com/pic1.jpg" when loaded. So if you have "Check Parent Links" enabled (in Adblock Plus 0.6.x series it's called Check Banner Links) that will check the redirection URL as well. The problem is that Adblock will only list the URL of the content being loaded so if it's being blocked by the parent link it isn't apparent why it would match.

[bob_nugget]

Great thanks! I used your filter and it works now.

[Guest]

A very weird behaviour here - that regexp syntax doesn't look wrong

I'm running Adblock Plus 0.5.11.2 on Firefox 1.5.0.1

[Wladimir Palant]

@mcm: Actually, Adblock Plus 0.6.1+ does it correctly - it displays the link as a separate item and then it is obvious the the link has been blocked and not the image.

[mcm]

Indeed it does, something I should have done myself if I had stopped to think about it long ago. Thanks for pointing it out to me.