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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: AndyBeez on March 14, 2023, 09:39:31 am ---FYI there is a domain squatter on "eevblog" using the ".co.uk" TLD. Do NOT click this

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No such site exists for me.
EDIT: I now own it  ;D

Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: magic on March 14, 2023, 07:45:39 am ---
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 14, 2023, 06:36:50 am ---    eevblog.com###text-49
    eevblog.com##[data-pagespeed-url-hash][onload^="pagespeed"]

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Do you happen to know what these lines mean?

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Yes, the filter syntax is documented here.

(Edit: I first thought I was responding to Dave, not magic.)

The first one blocks the element with id text-49, i.e. id="text-49".  It matches the affiliate program area at EEVBlog front page (https://www.eevblog.com/), the block where Dave has the ANENG AN8008 DMM right now.
I do not consider it an ad, because it is Dave's.  It explicitly says –– twice –– that "buy anything and Dave gets a commission!".

(If I don't want to see that image, I can always add a rule to block all images on eevblog.com pages loaded from alicdn.com, but even I am not that sensitive; the page is full of distractions already, and in my opinion the perfect place to have that.  It does not affect anything on the forum at all.)

(If Dave wants to make EasyList, with my filters, block only the DMM image but not the text, move the image from alicdn.com to eevblog.com/images/comm/. This should be acceptable even for 'fanboy', the EasyList maintainer.)

The second one blocks all elements that have an onload attribute containing "pagespeed".  It is a library, that SMF and others use, to ensure UI images (denoted "critical") are loaded first, and all other media after.  This increasing page load speeds, reducing the latency before the page is useful.  It makes no sense to block these either; it is definitely a bug in the list.  It is what blocks avatars and other images from loading here.

I can't decide whether these (at minimum the pagespeed one) are just errors, or if a blocked member or one of the SJWs has decided to try and annoy Dave and us via EasyList, it being the main ad-blocking list I am aware of.  Maybe I'm overly paranoid, though, and they were just caught using automated scanning or something.

m k:
Included is what I see, screen resolution is rolled back.
Things are also rolling up, including all ads.

Are your distractions constantly on screen?

FYI,
here banner ad is now missing but space is there.

AndyBeez:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 14, 2023, 10:04:33 am ---
--- Quote from: AndyBeez on March 14, 2023, 09:39:31 am ---FYI there is a domain squatter on "eevblog" using the ".co.uk" TLD. Do NOT click this

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No such site exists for me.
EDIT: I now own it  ;D

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Ripper  :-+

UPDATE: eevblog.co.uk is now a super safe domain that links to the REAL eevblog.com

Dates ranges for the previous eevblog.co.uk existence: Created 30-Nov-2021 - Updated 01-Oct-2022 - Expired 30-Nov-2022

I have had negative experiences with so called trusted domain parking services (mentioning no names in German). For example, a parked domain exhibited one of two behaviours:window's user agents linked to a normal links page. Android user agents started a redirect chain to an obscurated latin american server. This flashed a fake "Malware Detected" alert message, with the invite to download a .apk "repair" file. And it was all done with Javascript in the banner ads. Needless to say, this domain was removed from their domain parking lot.

Some other unregistered eevblog TLDs include:
co ltd online tv shop fyi social vip xyz live club site live space website me world io fun cloud today design app work tech cc biz

Now that's eevblog.fun  ;D

Nominal Animal:
See here for a 1918×11577 JPEG image (2,100,214 byte file) of what I see when viewing this thread.  This is with the modified easylist.txt, with the two offending rules commented out, and my own blocking rules (as I described above) enabled in my personal rules.

Edit: The JPEG is a bit blurred, so here is the same screenshot in PNG format, 4,179,616 bytes.

When I post, I often scroll the window down so that the animated emoticons don't bother me.

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