I was surprised it was that hard to change a route on autotrader. The article kept mentioning hundreds of thousands of pages, like they had some person editing each page in textmate.
RewriteRule "^/+new_path/+(.+)$" /advert/$1 [L]
... but that's also something they could again fix with another RewriteRule, I guess?
RewriteRule "^(.*)/+new_path/+(.+)$" $1/advert/$2 [L]
If parts of your audience blocks ads then it's probably a good idea to test your web site with uBlock installed, just as you already test with Safari and MSIE.
It's specifically not a good idea to rely on the block list maintainers who will have a hard time separating earnest bug reports from all the bogus ones who think they've found a clever way to avoid blocklists.
Even so, you could fix everything with a one line Perl command.
Please.
list maintainers should be responsible regression test their lists for normal content and not do dumb things
this is also a problem with bad/unscrupulous spam listings which list domains based on unsubstantiated requests, etc
I am against advertising and marketing and yet spend a considerable amount of money online, and I’m confident most of HN does the same.