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Beware of magic adblocker rules

Thomas Eisenbarth
September 08, 2012Software engineer at makandra GmbH

If a customer calls and tells you that she cannot see some content of her website beware of the following before starting tcpdump or other forensic debugging tools.

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Some ad blockers like Adblock Show archive.org snapshot are shipped with filters that remove (amongst others)

  • divs named 'sponsor'
  • images with a class "banner" or the filename "banner.png"
  • images from directories named 'sponsor*'
  • Image names or class names that begin with adv_....

Renaming the div to something more specific to your site and renaming the directory should fix the issue. Pardon me! It fixes the feature.

Posted by Thomas Eisenbarth to makandra dev (2012-09-08 15:20)