Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimediauk-l] AdBlock Plus wants to protect you from a malicious website, namely Wikimedia UK
On 27 November 2012 21:58, rexx wrote: > The ability to turn this on or off for your browser is unfortunately hidden > away in a tab in the 'Filter preferences ...' of ABP. There's also an > individual whitelist there. It's probably worth reading the developer's blog > at http://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adblock-plus for a > good overview of how it all works. It looks like this feature is rather too enthusiastic. metlife.com->fetlife.com ... - d. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimediauk-l] AdBlock Plus wants to protect you from a malicious website, namely Wikimedia UK
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Andy Mabbett > wrote: > > On 24 November 2012 16:41, Tom Morris wrote: > >> Does someone want to work out how to complain to the relevant parties? > > > > Is there no facility to report false positives on their website? http://adblockplus.org/en/bugs There's a bunch of similar comments already in that forum, like ymail.com vs gmail.com etc. andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimediauk-l] AdBlock Plus wants to protect you from a malicious website, namely Wikimedia UK
I received the same error when I visited http://incubator.wikimedia.org/ , suggesting that I wanted to go to incubator.wikipedia.org , and asking if I wanted to block wikimedia.org On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 24 November 2012 16:41, Tom Morris wrote: > >> AdBlock Plus has a facility to protect users from typosquatting >> (as in, typing "poopal.com" rather than "paypal.com") >> >> http://cl.ly/image/0M1l1D0K1x0g > > Ouch. > >> Does someone want to work out how to complain to the relevant parties? > > Is there no facility to report false positives on their website? > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > ___ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
