Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Could Adblock be built into the browser? · 2006-08-07 16:10 by Wladimir Palant
Daniel Goldman from Opera Watch wrote Why Opera wouldn’t include an AdBlock feature in the browser claiming that no browser vendor would ever include ad blocking functionality in their core browser. This claim looks a little strange given that Opera already added ad blocking functionality with the release of Opera 9. Also, ad blocking has been a built-in feature of Mozilla Suite and Firefox virtually forever even though it isn’t as powerful as Adblock (images can be blocked by domain).
"Don't mail us unless you are in the US" · 2006-08-06 21:23 by Wladimir Palant
I am back from my vacation and working through all the mail I got in the two weeks. Amongst others I found a funny email bounce for the forum’s confirmation message: “We are not aware of anyone in Germany needing to email us”.
Leaving for vacation · 2006-07-18 18:50 by Wladimir Palant
I am leaving for a vacation tomorrow, going to Lvov (Ukraine) with my girlfriend. So if I’m not answering mails — don’t be surprised. You shouldn’t expect an answer from me before the 7th of August, I’ll probably not be online during the whole vacation.
Ethics of blocking ads · 2006-06-27 04:55 by Wladimir Palant
I found one of the better blog posts on the topic of ethical implications of ad blocking today. Being on the pro-adblock side of the discussion, it doesn’t fall for the usual “I don’t care how they earn their money” kind of argument.
Site partially moved · 2006-06-26 20:45 by Wladimir Palant
I am finished moving the English part of the Adblock Plus site over to adblockplus.org. So far Textpattern looks like a great publishing plattform, the only annoyance being its formatting module – mixing Textile formatting with HTML often results in broken HTML. For code formatting I had to hack the Textile class, all other issues could be solved with plugins. We’ll see how it works now.
Mozilla developers about Adblock · 2006-06-22 20:25 by Wladimir Palant
<shaver> adblock is causing me so much heartburn right now <mcsmurf> adblock or adblock plus or adblock plus enhanced or adblock advanced? <luser> adblock eXtreme <gavin> adblock eXtreme sucks, I use adblock eXtreme ++Plus
Tu programa ha sido publicado · 2006-06-22 18:08 by Wladimir Palant
It is always fun to receive mails in a language you don’t understand, especially when the spam filter automatically sorts them out. Still, it seems that Adblock Plus has been listed on some Spanish site called uptodown.com and got recommended by their editors. Now I only need to know — is this a good thing? Does somebody know the site?
Object tabs running amok · 2006-06-19 22:18 by Wladimir Palant
Blog search sometimes turns up pretty weird hits for “Adblock” — blog entries that have nothing to do with Adblock but contain object tabs similar to those created by Adblock Plus when “Show tabs on Flash and Java” option is on. There is for example this entry that has 15 fake object tabs for the embedded movie.
Adblock security hole closed - but not by Adblock devs [updated] · 2006-06-18 22:46 by Wladimir Palant
A while back I mentioned two security holes I found in Adblock (bug 338114, access is restricted). Both are pretty stupid programming mistakes and can be fixed trivially. Luckily recent security improvements in Firefox prevent one of the bugs from being exploited. The other is wide open however and can potentially allow malicious web sites to gain control over your computer.
Improved handling of objects in Gecko · 2006-06-18 20:33 by Wladimir Palant
Another Gecko bug has been resolved, not quite so recently but still noteworthy: bug 315841. This fixes in particular the bad Java performance Adblock (Plus) users had to endure for years, the browser would always hang until JVM and the applet finished loading.