407191 - Graphic for Microsoft Startup Center on M$ homepage identified and blocked as ad by Adblocker.

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Annoyance Blocking, defect)

Description

[Joshua Dimmack]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.11pre) Gecko/20071205 Camino/1.6a1pre (like Firefox/2.0.0.11pre)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.11pre) Gecko/20071205 Camino/1.6a1pre (like Firefox/2.0.0.11pre)

The adblocking feature seems to be blocking http://i.microsoft.com/global/988ed28e-a050-4af2-a06d-3664b02c88e2.jpg from showing up on the M$ homepage.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enable Adblocking
2.visit www.microsoft.com
3.Link to Microsoft Start Up Center is not displayed.
Actual Results:  
The page loads without the graphic for the link to the Microsoft Start Up Center.

Expected Results:  
The graphic seems to me like it should not be flagged as an AD.

If Ad blocking is disabled the page displays correctly.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

<div class="j3"><a href="http://clk.atdmt.com/HLL/go/mcrssmse0010001350hll/direct/01/" onclick="&#xA;WTID('03-00-082SUS2011');&#xA;  "><img src="http://i.microsoft.com/global/988ed28e-a050-4af2-a06d-3664b02c88e2.jpg" alt="Microsoft Startup Center" height="205" width="205"></a></div>

I see what Joshua reports -- the graphic is blocked -- but I'm not sure this is INVALID or if it's a legitimate false positive. I'm also not entirely sure why it's being blocked.

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

The rule involved is:
a:link[href*="atdmt.com"] img

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I don't think we can remove that without lettings tons of ads back in, and, frankly, the ads that appear there are, well, ads, even if they are Microsoft-on-Microsoft.

Comment 4

[Joshua Dimmack]

I noticed that once the graphic loaded the first time, even after I had cleared the camino cache, relaunched camino, and reapplied the adblocking when I went back to the Microsoft page it still loaded for me.

Comment 5

[Stuart Morgan]

Since this does seem to be ad-like, and since the rule is a reasonable one, I think this is WONTFIX as well.