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[Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:44 pm
by 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-$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net|~labs.popcap.com|~linkedin.com|~ghsrv.com|~zynga.com|~mixx.com|~twitter.com
Regards,
Marijo
Re: [Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:21 am
by Hubird
Fixed,
Thanks Marijo
Re: [Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:23 am
by Marijo
Au contraire! Thank you!
By the way, any chance you can add my hiding rule
arstechnica.com###fb to your filter list?
This hides a remnant of the FB Like box on the right side of the page ("Disable Facebook on Ars").
Re: [Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:38 am
by Marijo
Hubird, I just noticed that you've fixed the issue with the following filter/whitelist:
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@@||arstechnica.net^*/facebook-lockdown-$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?
Re: [Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:15 pm
by 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.
Marijo wrote: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.
Re: [Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:20 pm
by Marijo
Sorry! Here's the link:
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/04 ... m-more.ars
Thanks for adding the hiding rule!
Re: [Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:33 pm
by 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_$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net|~labs.popcap.com|~linkedin.com|~ghsrv.com|~zynga.com|~mixx.com|~twitter.com|~tv.com
If there's no general way to unblock these images, then I guess whitelisting is kinda pointless.
To be honest, I'd rather see Antisocial block a bit too much than too little. Sacrificing the maintainability of the list for a few blocked images is not worth it IMHO.
Re: [Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:37 pm
by Hubird
Can you test if adding:
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@@/facebook-$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.
Re: [Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:47 pm
by 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.
Re: [Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:52 pm
by Hubird
I've removed the old whitelist and added the 2 new ones.
Hopefully that does the trick, thanks for you help (and patience
).
Re: [Antisocial] Image blocked on arstechnica.com
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 2:01 pm
by 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!