uncool

I don't know what the hell is going on, but if I enter "g plus plus" (no quotes, no spaces, plus replaced with plus sign), followed by a space followed by anything, my own blog gives me a 403 permission denied error!

I'd lodge a bug report, but to whom? Drupal, which has a million layers which may or may not be responsible for this? The GeSHi plugin for Drupal? GeSHi itself? The old, outdated PHP 4 installation? I don't have the will to debug yet more web crap, so I'll just post "around" it, if that's even possible.

Incidentally, that's why I haven't posted in a while: this error in a long blog post fooled me into thinking I couldn't post to my own blog. I'll post something I've kept on the back-burner right away.

I hate to break the nice bout of silence here, but I can't stay silent on this. From the Adblock Plus blog:

For years, NoScript has been using a trick to prevent Adblock Plus from working on its domains.

[...] at some point I suggested that EasyList should be extended by a filter to block ads specifically on NoScript’s domains.

What followed was a small war — the website would add various tricks to prevent Adblock Plus with EasyList from blocking ads, EasyList kept adjusting filters. Then, a week ago a new NoScript version was released. A few days later I noticed first bug reports — apparently, Adblock Plus "glitches" were observed with this NoScript version, especially around NoScript's domains (but not only those). When I investigated this issue I couldn’t believe my eyes. NoScript was extended by a piece of obfuscated (!) code to specifically target Adblock Plus and disable parts of its functionality. The issues caused by this manipulation were declared as "compatibility issues" in the NoScript forum, even now I still didn't see any official admission of crippling Adblock Plus. Clearly, NoScript is moving from the gray area of adware into dark black area of scareware, making money at user's expense at any cost.