[Flashblock] Getting Flashblock to work together with Adblock

[Philip Chee]

On 05/01/06, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo at colitti.com> wrote:
> Philip Chee wrote:
>> danielfreitag at gmx.de wrote:

>>> It would be great if you could just block flash if it is not
>>> blocked by a tool like adblock before.

>> This request has certainly come up before, several times.

>>> I hope this is possible.

>> It's certainly possible. But none of us here have any idea how
>> to do it at present, and at the moment our priorities are
>> elsewhere - fixing existing bugs for example.

> I think the real reason is that none of us actually use adblock, so we
> don't really have any incentive in getting the two to work together.

Well that too. None of know how Adblock/AdblockPlus works except
in general.

> That said, if someone were to provide proof-of-concept code or even
> a finished patch, we'd be happy to look at it and possibly include
> it...

Somebody on one of the Adblock forums tried to hack Flashblock's
whitelist code to read Adblock's blacklist which appears to be a
comma delimited list - our whitelist is a space delimited list.
But he failed to get it going. I suspect that Adblock's list
contains general regexp but we don't know how to handle such tokens.

Perhaps this is enough of a hint to somebody reading this mailing
list who has too much free time (what's that?) on his hands to
start hacking :-).

Phil