Guest wrote:Alan Baxter wrote:...including breaking his web site until he capitulated.
Again: that was a false positive and it was never intended.
I tend to judge Ares2's intentions by his actions. The filters were overly broad and it was inevitable they'd cause site breakage. Adblock Plus was being reckless. Take a look at the filters if you disagree. They were still in place on Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:11 pm UTC.
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/flashgot.net/*$script,subdocument,xmlhttprequest
/hackademix.net/*$script
/noscript.net/*$script,subdocument,xmlhttprequest
/oss.informaction.com/*
informaction.com/*$script,subdocument,xmlhttprequest,domain=flashgot.net|noscript.net|software.informaction.com
flashgot.net#*(href*=informaction)(href*=com)(href*=%62)
flashgot.net#*(href*=informaction)(href*=com)(href*=flashgot)
flashgot.net#*(href*=oss)(href*=informaction)(href*=com)
flashgot.net#ul(class=tla)
noscript.net#*(href*=informaction)(href*=com)(href*=%62)
noscript.net#*(href*=informaction)(href*=com)(href*=noscript)
noscript.net#*(href*=oss)(href*=informaction)(href*=com)
As you can see, they pretty much disable everything, including any script, frame, or AJAX request, present or future, involving Giorgio's sites.
Then Ares2, the Adblock Plus filter list maintainer that Wladimir picked, came over to this forum to discuss his actions, and said in viewtopic.php?p=2802#p2802
Ares2 wrote:I know those filters are very restrictive but they were never meant to stay the way they are forever. Temporary they seem to work OK
Sounds like he was planning on keeping them in place, temporarily of course, until Giorgio fixed his web site to suit the Adblock Plus team. Adblock Plus and the EasyList filters continued to cause false positives on Giorgio's web sites until Thursday. Malicious? Your guess is as good as mine, but reckless disregard for sure.