Cnet blocked by Sidki's filters

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ProxRocks Wrote:the article is loading for me, no prob's at all, none, naughta, zip...

Not for me, it's totally broken using unmodified sidki 1/2/08 beta.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-100843...7-1_3-0-20

Here's the problem:

Code:

BlockList 1188: in AdComments, line 283
<Match: <!> Remove: Comment-Block Ads I     7.01.05 [sd] (d.2) >

Note that the actual list matching expression is on line 306:

Code:

|MAC ad - *- MAC \[ ?++{0,130}-- >$SET(2=CNET MAC)

My experience with cnet is that matching on "MAC ad" is not reliable.
Cnet sometimes fails to put in the closing comment tag, or puts it in at the wrong place.
When this happens, huge chunks of code can match, badly breaking the page.

Personally, I would edit the list to break the "MAC ad" match to prevent this.
"xMAC ad" should do the trick.

Another alternative would be to exclude the filter from matching on cnet.
Keyword a_adcomm1 will prevent the filter from matching.

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