Suggestions for default filters

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:31 pm

Something I add to every installation of AP is .atwola.com to block out the banner on the CNN webpage.

Might this be included with newer builds or is there a reason this has been left out?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:20 pm

Hi Folks,

I think the /\Wservlet\W/ pattern might be a little too general. (well a lot too general actually)

As I interpret it it's a regex to match any non word character, the string 'servlet', then any non word character. Hence '/servlet/' matches, and this is a very common pattern for many servlet based websites (of which there are thousands)

eg the UK coop bank's http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/ site doesn't work correctly with it. This pattern removes all the images (as they use /servlet/ in the path for their images)

Just thought I'd let you know.

Keep up the good work :]

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:26 pm

changed the following codes

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/\.geocities.com/js_source/ 
/at(wola|dmt)\.com/

mcm · Post by **mcm** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:33 pm

Thanks for the feedback, I have made the suggested changes (current list on the first post) except for "/\.geocities.com/js_source/" which from memory had a false positive which is why it has the specific js files listed.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:25 am

G uses that filter. I think it changed.

mcm · Post by **mcm** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:08 am

Ok, that's good enough for me, done!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:01 pm

You can add this, mcm:

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/(af|hb)\.ly[gc]os?\.com|\(tb\)$/

- No more stupid toolbar messing up the page structure

I hope nobody finds it useful..

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:16 pm

the toolbar that is..

Ripper^^ · Post by **Ripper^^** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:56 am

While I understand the use of a default filterset I believe it should be an opt in thing such as suggested by an above post ""Filter List empty - Do you want to use the default filter set?"

My reason for this is I try to only block ads on larger sites not small places that need ad revenue to survive(unless they're really annoying), and I think other users may have the same philosophy. I just started using adblock plus to fix the flash 8 problem and did not know that there was a default filterset. It blocks for example Google AdSense which a lot of smaller sites use, my own included, and which I don't filter. Just my two cents.

Ripper^^

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:01 pm

I agree my vote for opt-in

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:28 pm

Cheers

mcm · Post by **mcm** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:35 pm

Sorry about that, change the beginning from:

/[\W_]ad[^=&](banner...

to

/[\W_]ad(?!=&)(banner...

mcm · Post by **mcm** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:15 pm

Because this is quite a bad false positive, Adblock Plus 0.5.11 will automatically make the change mentioned in the previous post if installing from 0.5.10.

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:17 am

I would like to nominate the following as default filter:

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/[\?\&]clicktag=http/

I'm using it for two weeks (http://p2.forumforfree.com/-vp1339-adbl ... .html#1339) and it works realy fine without any problems.

Paulfox · Post by **Paulfox** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:40 pm

Adblock Plus

Suggestions for default filters

flickr + default filterset

clicktag blocking by default