The Adblock Project

maiki · Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 4

Using FF1.0.3. Today I was looking at another forum, at http://www.misticriver.net/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=13

I could see the forum index fine, but if I click on a post to read that post nothing happens.

As an experiment, I pressed Ctrl-Shift-B to disable Adblock, then I clicked again on the post I wanted to read, and it opened.

Why did Adblock prevent posts from opening?

I have had similar problems on many sites lately, but this was the first time I thought of disabling Adblock. That might be the source of all such problems.

I notice that I have had the same version of Adblock for a LONG time--v.5, d2, *nightly 39. I frequently do the "update FF extensions" thing in Options, and even try right-clicking on Adblock and choosing "Update" in Tools, Extensions, but there are never any updates for it.

I just looked under "News" on this web site, and under "Latest News", the most recent news listed is dated 10/24/03, a year and a half ago.

Is Adblock compatible with FF 1.0.3? Why haven't there been updates to the extension for so long? Why am I having the problems like the one I mentioned?

Thank you for your input.

(P.S. I just clicked on "Submit", for this post, and nothing happened. Now I will disable Adblock, and see if the post is submitted. That is indeed interesting--if Adblock even prevents its own forum from working!

maiki · Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 4

kstahl · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 Post subject:

Adblock does not block anything on its own. Either you have hit upon a bug, or one of your filters is responsible. Since I haven't heard of such a bug, I'm betting on the latter.

Do you have a filter which starts something like this?

Org · Joined: 23 Oct 2003 Posts: 349

Adblock doesn't cause any problems with that forum here. I bet kstahl was right again (as usual).

Those forum links include long hexadecimal numbers. Given enough or long enough hex numbers you WILL encounter combination "ad". And if your Adblock filterlist is too aggressive with the word "ad", you will encounter false positives. Disabling Adblock for that site is poor solution. It's much better to do as suggested, and fix your broken filterlist.

ShunterAlhena · Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 40

As of development issues, the devs assure us that 0.6 is in the making. I'm skeptical and put up a few threads with the very same question, and the two main answers were "we're on it" and "hey you're not paying for this why do you expect anything?"
I hope /and believe/ that the first answer is true, and I agree with the second answer - though man was produced not to be patient forever, it's a design mistake.
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kstahl · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 Post subject:

I'm curious, what do you think rue and wonko could possibly gain by telling people 0.6 was on the way if it wasn't?

It's not like they are taking preorders...
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Guest · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 Post subject:

Interest? Noone likes a dead project. It would be an open invitation for someone to fork it, or build something to replace it.

Even though the project looks dead, appearances can be decieving. Smile

I know rue is not sitting on his butt twiddling his thumbs Wink

Algy · Guest

I had to reinstall my system, so I installed the newest Firefox (1.03) instead of the 1.02 I was using. I then started to download the extensions I had had previously, but when I got to AdBlock, I got a message saying that it was not compatible with the new version of Furefox.

Therefore, all the probs those earlier posters were having, were caused by that incompatibility.

I might go on to describe how updating to the new forefox, then deciding to delete AdBlock actually is what originally CAUSED me to have to totally reinstall my system, but that's another story Sad

maiki · Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 4

kstahl · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 Post subject:

Yes, your first filter there is the culprit.

maiki · Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 4

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gracefool · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 Post subject: Is AdBlock Plus the new AdBlock?

Perhaps this thread should be stickied for the "is AdBlock dead" part.

Is AdBlock replaced with [url="http://bene.sitesled.com/adblock.htm"]AdBlock Plus[/url]?

Suggestion to developers (if they're still alive): Make Obj-Tabs less intrusive, ie. by making smaller and more transparent (perhaps an icon instead of text).
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ShunterAlhena · Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 40

Officially Adblock Plus is to ease the strain on Adblock devs.
Now with all due respect, there hasn't been either byte of change in the webpage neither a new nightly or a screenshot for more than a year. What strain needs easing? * ironic laughter *
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"Look at you hacker
a petty creature of meat and bone
panting and sweating as you run through my corridors...
How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"
SHODAN, System Shock
best game ever - the only one I ever bought as well