"Privacy" URL filtering anomaly (SP 50)

Maurice Weitman owlist at mo.com
Thu Feb 28 10:17:24 PST 2002


Howdy,

I can't tell you how much I appreciate OW's URL filtering 
capabilities, among other cool features and designs.  Only once have 
I wanted to see something that was filtered/banned by the Privacy 
prefs.

This morning, though, I tried downloading an update to FruitMenu from 
VersionTracker and was erroneously blocked.

Here are my filters:

	<key>OWAddressesToFilter</key>
	<array>
		<string>/ads\..*\.net/</string>
		<string>/ads\..*\.com/</string>
		<string>/.*\.doubleclick\.net/</string>
		<string>transfer\.go\.com</string>
		<string>/ADSclicker.*</string>
		<string>/adfarm.*</string>
		<string>imglmb1\.com/</string>
		<string>/adclick.*</string>
		<string>/spinbox\..*</string>
		<string>/ads/</string>
		<string>image\.weather\.com/creatives/</string>
		<string>\ad\..*\.com</string>
	</array>

(I have neither of the "Don't automatically load images..." 
checkboxes checked.)

And here's the offending link:

 
http://versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/kind=1&db=macosx&id=12974/fruitmenu-152.sit

which was redirected to:

      http://download.unsanity.com/fruitmenu-152.sit

and produced the "Cannot Load Address - This address has been 
filtered by your privacy settings" message.

Am I missing something?

(Blue sky wishlist: It would be delightful if this type of incident 
would display the pertinent filter and offer an override.)

Thanks.

Regards,
Maurice



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