Topic: Adblock Plus censoring posts (Read 5857 times)
I browse the forum with NoScript, and never noticed any issues.
I used Adblock Lite with Fanboy's list and Adblock Edge with EasyList and never seen any problems. On top of that was Adblock Plus popup blocking add-on. And the ads were blocked for me 
If people intentionally install Adblock they don't want to see that advertising crap. Anti-Adblock technology is almost as wrong as DRM or remote killswitch for software.
If people intentionally install Adblock they don't want to see that advertising crap. Anti-Adblock technology is almost as wrong as DRM or remote killswitch for software.
Theymos turned on ad blockin within the forum, it is your profile page. So we don't have to read those stupid ads anymore!
Adblock (non-Plus) appears to be blocking advertisements without reporting it even being blocked.
AB on Chrome, only AB extension enabled - no advertisements.
Chrome, no extensions - advertisements.
ETA: Actually... some advertisements load under AB. Maybe I'm just being stupid.
ETA2: No, AB is definitely blocking ads. Anything with a background image, it seems, possibly more.
No clue if that helps at all. With AB, ~85-90% of ads are missing. Without AB, 0% of ads are missing. (Not a huge sample size. I'm not going to refresh and stare at ads forever, y'know?!)
If it helps, this is what I see when an ad is blocked (again, no notification in AB icon):
ETA: As mentioned above, this is a block by EasyList.
bitcointalk.org##a[class^="td_headerandpost"]
AB on Chrome, only AB extension enabled - no advertisements.
Chrome, no extensions - advertisements.
ETA: Actually... some advertisements load under AB. Maybe I'm just being stupid.
ETA2: No, AB is definitely blocking ads. Anything with a background image, it seems, possibly more.
No clue if that helps at all. With AB, ~85-90% of ads are missing. Without AB, 0% of ads are missing. (Not a huge sample size. I'm not going to refresh and stare at ads forever, y'know?!)
If it helps, this is what I see when an ad is blocked (again, no notification in AB icon):
ETA: As mentioned above, this is a block by EasyList.
bitcointalk.org##a[class^="td_headerandpost"]
Use normal AB + Noscript
Do the advertisers pay premium for the anti-ABP code?
Actually, ABP charges money to unblock ads. You have to be considered non intrusive AND pay em.Now they are just blocking this:
To disable:
Right click and do 'Disable on bitcointalk.org'
Didn't work? Do this:
Code:
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > .bfl
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > .bvc
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > a[style*="font-size: 16px;"]
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > a[style*="font-size:15px;"]
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > b + b + a[href^="https://bips.me/landing/"]
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > b + span[style*="font-size: 18px;"]
To disable:
Right click and do 'Disable on bitcointalk.org'
Didn't work? Do this:
Code:
1. Right click on the ABP logo.
2. Click 'Filter Preferences'
3. Click 'Custom Filters'
4. Right click and choose 'Show/Hide Filters'
5. Click Exception Rules and click 'Add filter'
6. Paste: @@||bitcointalk.org^$document
7. Save, and you are done!
Why would it block https://bips.me/landing/ ?
Very shady.
@MM
These updates were occurring daily/hourly, so, if you update only by weekly, you might have missed what the problem was. I think you might be getting this thread wrong, yes, ads were being blocked, new method came out anti-blocking easylists, resulted in new updates explained below V
It was a huge mess. Prior, easylists technique of blocking the ads was also blocking the links in posts = to censorship. The problem was fixed a while ago.
These updates were occurring daily/hourly, so, if you update only by weekly, you might have missed what the problem was. I think you might be getting this thread wrong, yes, ads were being blocked, new method came out anti-blocking easylists, resulted in new updates explained below V
It was a huge mess. Prior, easylists technique of blocking the ads was also blocking the links in posts = to censorship. The problem was fixed a while ago.
I used Adblock Lite with Fanboy's list and Adblock Edge with EasyList and never seen any problems. On top of that was Adblock Plus popup blocking add-on. And the ads were blocked for me
If people intentionally install Adblock they don't want to see that advertising crap. Anti-Adblock technology is almost as wrong as DRM or remote killswitch for software.
If people intentionally install Adblock they don't want to see that advertising crap. Anti-Adblock technology is almost as wrong as DRM or remote killswitch for software.
Now they are just blocking this:
Code:
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > .bfl
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > .bvc
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > a[style*="font-size: 16px;"]
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > a[style*="font-size:15px;"]
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > b + b + a[href^="https://bips.me/landing/"]
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > b + span[style*="font-size: 18px;"]
This above, fixes from censoring links in posts. Which was the point of this thread.
Update on easylist. Links inside post should no longer be censored. There might be many more updates. If those ads are still css inlined.
https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/76b3a40d78a1
https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/76b3a40d78a1
Now they are just blocking this:
To disable:
Right click and do 'Disable on bitcointalk.org'
Didn't work? Do this:
Code:
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > .bfl
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > .bvc
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > a[style*="font-size: 16px;"]
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > a[style*="font-size:15px;"]
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > b + b + a[href^="https://bips.me/landing/"]
bitcointalk.org##td[style="padding: 1px 1px 0 1px;"] > b + span[style*="font-size: 18px;"]
To disable:
Right click and do 'Disable on bitcointalk.org'
Didn't work? Do this:
Code:
1. Right click on the ABP logo.
2. Click 'Filter Preferences'
3. Click 'Custom Filters'
4. Right click and choose 'Show/Hide Filters'
5. Click Exception Rules and click 'Add filter'
6. Paste: @@||bitcointalk.org^$document
7. Save, and you are done!
Sorry, fixed in the latest EasyList.
I'm on Chrome, and the bug is still present using AdBlock Plus (which is now turned off).
What bug? Blocked links? Which links are blocked?
The links are still blocked - the first 2 in your original post's quoted posts I'm on Chrome, and the bug is still present using AdBlock Plus (which is now turned off).
What bug? Blocked links? Which links are blocked?
I do wish people would explain when making posts like this. It's very irritating, having to ask, what they are talking about. Most time, they just get iggied, in my mind they are trolling.
I'm on Chrome, and the bug is still present using AdBlock Plus (which is now turned off).
What bug? Blocked links? Which links are blocked?
I'm on Chrome, and the bug is still present using AdBlock Plus (which is now turned off).
Wow. This is amazing.
(Off topic: theymos, instead of putting (Forum warning: possible phishing link) near links, rather put (leads to (actual site here)))
(Off topic: theymos, instead of putting (Forum warning: possible phishing link) near links, rather put (leads to (actual site here)))
Thanks Theymos I was using Adblock on another computer and noticed the problem.
Someone mentioned before that css hiding (such as through the CSS element ABP extension) could be used to remove the bottom advertisement. Unfortunately only the title of the company is within that element, to hide the whole advertisement you have to hide an unnamed element with much wider parameters. I know that the people have little incentive to name the element, and thus make hiding the advertisement easier but I felt it should be noted in case that starts causing problems for people.
While it's not possible to hide it by id, you can hack it using adjacent sibling selector. Keep in mind that you risk hiding something different if the HTML code changes one day.
Code:
#bodyarea + div { display: none }
Not sure why would you even like to block this thing.
Code:
bitcointalk.org##DIV[style="text-align:center"]
I had it hidden because, easylist was hiding the links to it, and it was annoying just seeing
Code:
Sponsored by , a Bitcoin-accepting .
But this here is very acceptable after easylist was updated, as they are providing hosting for the forum, and isn't intrusive. I just pointed it out to theymos, as I guess it is JS inlined, and I was able to still block it with the above code, meaning, the ads might be able to be still blocked with ABP with noscript disabled here, if not read below.
How ever much theymos has got done with injecting JS inline ads, I think I will be learning how to write surrogates for noscript, not to sure about that though, learning to write it. http://hackademix.net/2011/09/29/script-surrogates-quick-reference/ then with a surrogate, java will be allowed and js inlined ads can be blocked with the correct surrogate and/or with the correct greasemonky script.
A lot of AB users also tend to use NoScript.
Yes, AB + Noscript is better than Ghostery (they collect your data). 
You guys should use the blackbox forum theme. It works better than ABP at hiding the ads. 
morons...
morons...
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