detecting adblockplus

fanboy · Post by **fanboy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:03 am

a new website I found, detects whether Adblock plus is enabled (even with no filters installed), can anyone else see this aswell? how is this possible?

http://www.egodialogues.com/blog/index.php?itemid=158

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007090220 Minefield/3.0a8pre

fanboy · Post by **fanboy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:15 am

unless its a Trunk bug..

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Okay seems the issue is with "Checker banner links"

adum · Post by **adum** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:52 am

No problemS when using FF 2.0.6, ABP 0.7.5.1 and Rick's lists. The site seems to be a little buggy, for example I cannot see the captcha image (using either Firefox or IE7), but no adblocking detection for me.

fanboy · Post by **fanboy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:11 pm

try turning on the "check banner links" option

adum wrote:No problemS when using FF 2.0.6, ABP 0.7.5.1 and Rick's lists. The site seems to be a little buggy, for example I cannot see the captcha image (using either Firefox or IE7), but no adblocking detection for me.

fanboy · Post by **fanboy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:16 pm

must be a bug in Adblock Plus, the check banner link is enabled, and remove all filters, and it'll still show nothing.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:16 pm

I'm having no problem here with 'check banner links' either on or off (no links are blocked there).

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:55 pm

No problem here either, but I have JavaScript disabled. Nice video by the way. Thanks.
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.1
NoScript 1.1.6.18

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:05 pm

Jeez, Alan. I just realized that I never actually LOOK at anything when I go after a problem. I ran that thing 5 times and have no idea what it was about. I really have got to take some time to actually enjoy some of the things on different pages instead of concentrating so hard on just the problems. I couldn't tell you anything about most of the pages that I have visited to fix things .... too busy looking at the code

I need to go back and actually watch the clip

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:11 pm

Take time to stop to smell the roses, eh? This stuff is fun for me again. I grew to dread it when I did it for a living. Much better now.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:16 pm

That clip was very funny, imaginative, and well done. Kudos to the author.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:32 pm

fanboy wrote:unless its a Trunk bug..

edit
Okay seems the issue is with "Checker banner links"

Confirmed on Minefield. Flash video isn't displayed and the space for it is collapsed. Only if "Check banner links" is enabled. Even if no filters have been installed

. Blockable items list shows no items blocked.

Edit: If I disable ABP from the status bar icon, then the Flash video is displayed again.
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007090205 Minefield/3.0a8pre
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.1

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:44 pm

Looks like one for Wladimir. Doesn't seem to affect 2.0.0.6. Yet another reason to keep that option off.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:50 pm

rick752 wrote:Looks like one for Wladimir.

I'll add it to the official ABP bug list, if someone hasn't already.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:03 pm

I'm being presumptuous. You found it, fanboy. Do you want to file it in bugzilla? http://adblockplus.org/en/bugs

fanboy · Post by **fanboy** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:43 am

Alan wrote:I'm being presumptuous. You found it, fanboy. Do you want to file it in bugzilla? http://adblockplus.org/en/bugs

https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=17686