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Consider selecting "hpHosts’s Ad and tracking servers" out of the box #17

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@gorhill

Author of this list is working to fix the over-zealousness.

That would be an extra over 19,000 new filters out of the box. I am currently using it, so far no problem, but I browse a limited amount of sites. If other users can try it and see if there are any issues -- i.e. we don't want the extension to break sites with out-of-the-box settings.

@gorhill

The list breaks http://news.yahoo.com/, so that would need to be fixed.

@gorhill

It blocks use.typekit.net, which is often used by sites to download web fonts. Need to create an exception filter for this one.

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@gorhill gorhill related to #17 8987452
@gorhill gorhill changed the title from Consider selecting " hpHosts’s Ad and tracking servers" out of the box as author is working to fix the overzealousness to Consider selecting "hpHosts’s Ad and tracking servers" out of the box as author is working to fix the overzealousness
@gorhill

This list blocks c.brightcove.com, and this breaks videos on meteomedia.com (and probably other sites).

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@gorhill gorhill to address #17 bf0bd42
@ledti

Noticed today that it blocks s.imwx.com, which breaks images at weather.com and wunderground.com.

Example: http://www.wunderground.com/news/china-cave-weather-20131002 (was a front-page post at reddit)

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@gorhill gorhill another one for #17 5ba6127
@gorhill

Thanks, fixed.

@ledti

It blocks extras.mnginteractive.com which is used for css and images at mercurynews.com.

@@||extras.mnginteractive.com^ fixed the layout for me.

Edit: Noticed that after scrolling through the article there is a popup in the bottom right corner which although it has a large X to close the popup, clicking that doesn't do anything.

There's also a small photo gallery which has multiple images, but clicking the number hyperlinks do not work as intended. Both of these issues don't seem to be related to extras.mnginteractive.com. It seems EasyPrivacy may be part of the cause but I don't know for sure.

There may be more issues.

@CODYQX4
@gorhill

Currently this is what I've added: @@||extras.mnginteractive.com^$domain=mercurynews.com,denverpost.com. I suspect there might be more news websites out there which need this one, so I might end up having to add @@||extras.mnginteractive.com^.

Ultimately, as said here, to block with 100% certainty is to use HTTPSB.

@gorhill gorhill changed the title from Consider selecting "hpHosts’s Ad and tracking servers" out of the box as author is working to fix the overzealousness to Consider selecting "hpHosts’s Ad and tracking servers" out of the box
@gorhill

Blocking adm.fwmrm.net/crossdomain.xml (adm.fwmrm.net is in hpHosts, MVPS, Dan Pollock's) causes the video at the bottom of http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/07/15/nathen-steffel-dead-daughter-photoshop_n_5589744.html to start to play on its own.

When allowing adm.fwmrm.net/crossdomain.xml, the video does not auto-play.

Creating an exception such as @@||adm.fwmrm.net/crossdomain.xml^ is not a good idea since there is already a filter ||adm.fwmrm.net/crossdomain.xml$domain=cc.com|mtv.com in EasyList. Will think more about this.

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@gorhill gorhill this fixes #409 2f3f845
@gorhill

Too many false positives, I give up. Use at your own risk, and if it breaks stuff, report to the list maintainer(s) (which is not me).

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