Closed Bug 407150 Opened 18 years ago Closed 17 years ago

An ad report system

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Annoyance Blocking, enhancement)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
Annoyance Blocking
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: contact, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; fr; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 Camino/1.5.4 (MultiLang) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; fr; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 Camino/1.5.4 (MultiLang) It would be good to have some page to send links in order to improve Camino's adblocking system. Or at least a personnal list of blocked adresses in the preferences pane. Reproducible: Always
The former is probably not something we want to do, for the same reasons we don't have a "Report a Bug" item in the menus anywhere. Namely, it would lead to lots of extra work for the development team -- which is already swamped enough trying to make a browser -- for very little gain. In the last year, I can count on two hands the number of "this ad isn't being blocked" bugs/forum postings/feedback e-mails we've gotten, which says to me that 1) we're doing a pretty good job overall as far as users are concerned and 2) there's not a great deal of stuff out there that we *can* block that we aren't already blocking. The latter -- a configurable ad-blocker in prefs -- is covered by bug 314046. cl
Hum, I see a lot of unblocked ads every day (especially on french sites). But ok, i'll send bugs.
(In reply to comment #1) > The former is probably not something we want to do, for the same reasons we > don't have a "Report a Bug" item in the menus anywhere. We may or may not want to do it, but it's definitely not for the same reasons we don't have a site problem reporter--that is for a few very specific reasons which don't apply at all to our ad-blocking.
Yes, please file bugs on specific ads that aren't being blocked. We know our ad-blocking is not as strong on non-English sites, so filing bugs (or, if you have large numbers of sites with unblocked ads that you want to report at once, a single bug with a list of all the URLs of pages showing ads) will help improve things. Our ad-blocking on German sites has gotten much better over the past year because a German user has filed a series of bugs on ads he's seen.
Based on comment 4 and additional experience since then, I think the pertinent question now is this: Do we want to provide a more user-friendly means than Bugzilla for reporting unblocked ads? And if so, what form should this system take? Integrated into Camino itself as a "helper", a web-based form on cb.o, or something else entirely? I personally think the traditional Bugzilla-based method is working out just fine, but if someone wants to set up a web-based reporting system on cb.o, you won't get any argument from me.
I'd prefer if we tracked ad-blocking issues in Bugzilla, so unless we're going to re-implement Bugzilla Helper on cbo, this should be WONTFIX. We could add something specific to ads on the Contact page, but that also seems like overkill.
WONTFIX per comment 6.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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