[BUG] adblock: Can't block flash

[Hubird]

Your rule

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images/simple*.swf

does work, however I am a bit confused.


This is the address of the flash objects, try one to test.

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http://www.schoolforchampions.com/flash/images/simple1.swf

http://www.schoolforchampions.com/flash/images/simple2.swf

http://www.schoolforchampions.com/flash/images/simple4.swf


So I don't know why my rule

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*/flash/images/*

does not work.

[chromeplus]

Please be noticed the code is:

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src="images/simple1.swf"

as marked in with red pen. There's no "flash" prior to it.

[Hubird]

http://www.schoolforchampions.com/flash/simple.htm

As you can see in the above link the actual HTML page is located in a folder called flash

src="images/simple1.swf"

Is really the same as

src="/flash/images/simple1.swf"

Or

src="http://www.schoolforchampions.com/flash/images/simple1.swf"

and should be treated as such by your adblocker.

If it is not treated the same then you should not say you support Adblock plus rules because

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*/flash/images/*

works fine in Adblock Plus

[chromeplus]

Hi Hubird,

I don't think there could be any software can behave identically with another one, and even different versions of the same software.
According to the rules of Blocking rules, ABP should not support this as I mentioned above and I don't know when it is supported.
I must admit that there're differences between ChromePlus' ablock and ABP, and I haven't found anywhere that we stated "support Adblock plus rules".
Please see http://forum.chromeplus.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=534. We emphasized "The support of AdblockPlus rules is not complete in ChromePlus and we will make it better."
If you still think that is not OK, please tell us what do you suggest that I can declare to make things clearer?

[nnx]

Well I find it odd too that the filtering isnt done on the full url, else you will have a hard job to filter multible sites or many different elements thats partial alike.

To get a good common ground to be able do make efficient filters, we need full urls to filter on.