image blocked by Adblock Plus

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Michael Kress	Monday 26 March 2007 11:46:25 am Hi, I've got an image being blocked by Firefox Plugin Adblock Plus, because of this: * page-url: /add_ons * image for an "Article": the one that is going to be blocked * The "guilty" filter rule: /[\W_]ad[^=&](banner\|click\|flow\|frame\|ima?ge?\|log\|serv(er\|e)?\|stream\|type\|view\|vert(ising\|isement)?\|v\|js\|trix\|xchange\|wrapper)?s?[\W\d_]/ * When rendering the page, the image is being renamed to something like this: /var/ ... /add_ons/845-2-ger-DE/add_ons_medium.png The problem with the image is that it's name is mandatory and unchangeable. Ok, I could update the page url, but that's not what I wanted. What else can I do? Take the image and put it in the article text? Then I've got the problem that I can't get exactly the alignment than the other pages. Thanks for any advice Michael
Wladimir Palant	Monday 26 March 2007 4:39:38 pm Adblock Plus doesn't block anything by itself, in only obeys the filters you have in your list. I am not sure where you got this filter from but first for filter subscriptions on http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions certainly don't have it.
Michael Kress	Monday 26 March 2007 10:42:52 pm Hi, that's not the problem, I know how I can prevent Adblock Plus doing this. The point is, what can I do on the server side to improve this? I can't put instructions on my pages telling users how to adjust their Adblock Plus settings in order to view certain graphics on my page. ;-) Nobody would follow these. Meanwhile I actually changed my mind and changed the url from add-ons to Extras. Grace to the search tool I found all the pages containing the word "Add". :) Regards, Michael
Wladimir Palant	Tuesday 27 March 2007 8:52:22 pm I don't think anybody but you uses this crappy filter. I don't know where it came from but no recommended filter subscription for Adblock Plus has it. So I don't think this is an issue. Otherwise - authors of filter subscriptions are quite responsive, if you report the false positive they will usually fix the problem in the filter list.