[ ijbswa-Actionsfile feedback-1831923 ] from adds on www.macwindows.com come through

Actionsfile feedback item #1831923, was opened at 2007-11-14 09:31
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Category: filter: ad-not-blocked
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>Status: Pending
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Submitted By: Steven (smkolins)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: from adds on www.macwindows.com come through

Initial Comment:
Just unusual in that it came through at the top and the bottom... (long long page.)

Using Privoxy 3.06.

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Comment By: Lee (ler762)
Date: 2007-11-16 16:45

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3.0.7 doesn't catch much of anything there.  I don't think the ads on the
front page are all that bad, but if you do want to block them you can
filter them out

---- begin: add to user.filter ---
#################################################################################
#
# block-macwindows-ads: blocks "random image" ads on macwindows.com
#
# The ads are inserted via javascript:
#   document.write(' <a href=\"' +ranlink+ '\" target=\"_blank\">
#                    <img src=\"'+ranimage+'\" border="0"
alt=\"'+rantext+'\"></a> ');
#
FILTER: block-macwindows-ads

s@'\+ranimage\+'@http://config.privoxy.org/send-banner?type=auto@g
s@'\+rantext\+'@Privoxy blocked macwindows ad image@g

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----- begin: add to user.action --------
{ +filter{block-macwindows-ads} }
.macwindows.com/($|.*\.html?)

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.macwindows.com/ might be safer - I was trying to fix it so that Privoxy
wouldn't waste time filtering .css files.  You might also want to add

{ +block-as-image }
send.onenetworkdirect.net/

to your user.action file.

For other pages on that site, the default banners-by-size filter doesn't
block 728x90 banners. (see http://www.iab.net/standards/adunits.asp for a
list of standard ad sizes).  I've added this to my default.filter to catch
them

# 728*90
s@<img\s+(?:src\s*=\s*(['"]?)([^>\\\1\s]+)\1)?[^>]*?(width=(['"]?)728\4)[^>]*?(height=(['"]?)90\6)[^>]*?(?=/?>)@\
  <img src="http://config.privoxy.org/send-banner?type=auto" border="0"
title="Killed-$2-by-size" $3 $5@sig

but that requires enabling the banners-by-size filter to block them..

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Comment By: Hal Burgiss (hal9)
Date: 2007-11-16 16:35

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A default 3.0.7 installation does not stop it. That's because
banners-by-size is off in a default installation. You can always turn that
on globally, or just for this site in your user.action file. 

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Comment By: Steven (smkolins)
Date: 2007-11-16 05:51

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I'm sure you are more familiar with the syntax and options but I'll take a
look. Does 3.0.7 catch it? I've not built from cvs in a while and seen
alerts it's coming out.

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Comment By: Hal Burgiss (hal9)
Date: 2007-11-15 19:50

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Thanks for the report! Here's the dilemna: these are obnoxious enough I
think they qualify for blocking no question. But they are using rotating
banners with not an easily discernible pattern. Also, the other images on
the site (like menu buttons), use a similar path. So its hard to come up
with a *simple* blocking scheme. Any suggestions? The Banners-by-size
filter works just fine, but we have disabled filters for the default
installation so I am reluctant to start making exceptions.

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