EASYLIST: false positives

Post by **Hubird** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:52 am

On the site http://www.nbl.com.au/ The heading image http://www.nbl.com.au/_content/advertis ... -image.jpg is blocked (I think by the /adverti filter). I know I could use a white list for this particular image but I was hoping easylist could be modified to fix this. Thanks and keep up the great work...

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:01 am

I suggest you add these two whitelisting filters.

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@@http://www.nbl.com.au/_content/advertising/0*-image.gif
@@http://www.nbl.com.au/_content/advertising/0*-image.jpg

I don't experience those as ads. They're links to other sites of interest. Don't know if Rick wants to add whitelisting for just that one site, but you can and should do it for yourself.

Post by **Hubird** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:14 am

Thanks for your reply and for bringing to my attention the fact that this site has a few false positives that I did not notice. Hopefully Rick will look into it. The problem seems to be that they have legit images in a folder called advertising.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:12 pm

You're welcome. By the way, you might not have noticed but different images are rotated through as the heading image you originally posted about.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:57 pm

That site seems to be down at the moment.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:11 pm

All of my testing must have overloaded it.

Post by **Hubird** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:22 pm

That site seems to be down at the moment.

Not down now / for me. Hopefully you get a chance to have a look and see if you can fix it.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:38 pm

I still cannot get there. The site has been down here. You should only need one whitelist string .. not two.

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@@.nbl.com.au/_content/advertising/0*-image.

Post by **Hubird** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:38 pm

Looks like it did the trick, can you add the white list string to Easylist.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:53 pm

I'd really like to see the site structure first. Why won't that site load for me (in ANY browser)? I have never added to a host file. Is my ISP blocking it? (sorry ... just thinking out loud).

jamieplucinski · Post by **jamieplucinski** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:15 pm

I tried visiting the site too, won't let me in, maybe they block traffic from non-Australian visitors?

IceDogg · Post by **IceDogg** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:30 pm

No, it's working fine here. I'm in the US. ISP Suddenlink. However there are no ads that I can see on that site at all, so why not whitelist the whole site?

Post by **Hubird** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:23 am

I can't see any ads either but that could change and if the whole site is whitelisted any new ads wouldn't be blocked. Wouldn't it be best just to use the code Rick suggested earlier ?

I'm only pushing for the whitelist code to be included in easylist because I have installed ABP and easylist on quite of few of my friends PC's, most of who are not very computer literate and it was brought to my attention that the site was "missing stuff".

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:17 am

Done

I shortened it up a bit. Check and see if all is well.

Post by **Hubird** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:31 am

Looks good, Thanks.

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