[ ijbswa-Actionsfile feedback-3430235 ] pages blocked due to three letter strings

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Actionsfile feedback item #3430235, was opened at 2011-10-29 17:49
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>Status: Pending
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: dan stahlke (dstahlke)
>Assigned to: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Summary: pages blocked due to three letter strings

Initial Comment:
The following pattern is perhaps a bit too loose since it can block based on three letter strings "ads" and "adv":
/(.*/)?ad(\?|/|s|v|_?(image|se?rv|box)|cycle|rotate|mentor|click|f[ra]m|script|stream|fetch|log|space)

For example, it blocks
http://www.scottaaronson.com/talks/advucsb.ppt
along with a few other false positives that I have seen so far.

Perhaps it would be better to require a word boundary after "ads".  I can't think of what "adv" is supposed to match, except for "advert" which could be spelled out explicitly.

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>Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2011-11-10 15:03

Message:
Thanks for the report. I'll look into this after the next release.

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