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The CatBlock website

Home Page: https://getcatblock.com

License: Other

JavaScript 7.41% HTML 54.24% CSS 14.26% Ruby 24.09%

catblock website

catblock.github.io's Introduction

CatBlock

Overview

CatBlock (previously known as "AdBlock with CatBlock") is like an ad blocking extension, but instead of blocking ads it shows you pictures of cats by default (configurable).

You can also disable replacing ads by cats, so CatBlock can work as a standard ad blocking extension (useful for when you're doing presentations anywhere!)

If you want to find out the history of this extension, you can check it out here.

Goals

This project aims at maintaining and improving the original CatBlock project by Michael Gundlach (the creator of AdBlock and CatBlock), which is built on top of the AdBlock code.

AdBlock has recently switched to the Adblock Plus codebase in version 3.0, but instead of importing those changes to CatBlock, we think it would be better to improve the original codebase.

Installation

CatBlock is available in Chrome Web Store, Opera Extensions Store and Firefox Addons Store.

Right now, CatBlock is not available in the Safari Extensions Store, or in the Windows Store, but we are looking into releasing CatBlock there as well!

If you can't wait for an official release of CatBlock on Windows Store, find out how to sideload CatBlock on Edge right now.

Supported browsers

CatBlock is compatible with following browsers:

Chrome: 49+
Opera: 35+
Safari: 6+
Firefox: 48+
Edge: Windows 10 Anniversary - version 1607

Tools we use

We use many different services to help keep CatBlock working! We use Travis to build new versions automatically for us.

We also have Travis connected to , to run a few automated unit tests for us. If "builds:passing" shows at the top of this README, then it's probably working fine, otherwise the current version of the code might not work so well.

Developers

How to build the extension or create a development environment?

The development guide will make your life easier if you need to build CatBlock or create an unpacked development environment and change the source code.

Do you want to contribute?

If you want to contribute any improvements to the code, please go ahead and send us a pull request from a fork of this repo!

If we see that you are a dedicated contributor, we may provide you with contributor permissions. The people to contact for this project are @kpeckett and @tomasko126.

Do you want to know more about our project?

If you want to keep an eye on CatBlock or even know more about it, check out our Wiki page, where you can find all important information.

Get in touch with us

We have a public Discord server! Ask for help, help out with development and just chat about stuff! Join the community at This link

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catblock.github.io's Issues

Inline install being phased out by EOY 2018

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/12/chrome_inline_installation/

Convert site to work with Jekyll template system

To simplify the code, let's use a Jekyll template for our site. This has the added benefit of letting us have a blog on GitHub Pages

HTACCESS not possible for GH Pages

GitHub Pages won't allow a .htaccess file for security reasons. We need to use Jekyll Redirects instead.

Full instructions are at https://help.github.com/articles/redirects-on-github-pages/

Links and other things point to old domain

Navbar links, JavaScript and CSS are still pointing to the old domain.

Move them to relative links to keep the code working all over.

Different implementations of Do Not Track in browsers

Some browsers have different implementation of Do Not Track feature according to Mozilla Dev site.

We should also adapt those changes in our code.

Safari Download not working

Hello all,

When trying to download CatBlock for Safari, an error appears.

Kind Regards,
Jérémy

Respect Do Not Track browser setting

More info can be found on Trello.

Update Privacy Policy

A few lines need changing:

We do use Google Analytics on this website, which includes data related to your interests and basic information, aspart of the "Demographics and Interest Reporting" feature.

There's a there's a missing space between "as" and "part".

We use the data collected from Google Analytics to find out ways to improve the website and our software, based on the types of data we see arriving to the website.

We could explain this better.

We use hosting services provided by SourceForge for file hosting, this website and issue tracking. Content posted there is stored by SourceForge, and will be handled by SourceForge in accordance with their policies, and by us with this policy.

We're looking to use GitHub for file hosting, and we already use GitHub for the website.

As we do not collect any contact information, we have no way of contacting you when this policy changes. You must check back either on this page (the "last updated" date will have changed) or the CatBlock blog regularly to check.

This can be worded better and have a link to the blog.

EU Cookie Law

We should really implement some form of cookie law compliance.

There's some JS plugins around, they might work. Alternatively we could write our own.

Edge recognised as Chrome

Edge is instructed to download the Chrome Web Store version, possibly due to its user-agent being:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10240

We should check against Edge and show the "not available" message.

P.S. There is even a "chrome" object in the JS console.

catblock.tk domain has been cancelled and now redirects to a advert page

It would be a good idea to change the links that point to catblock.tk. This is the result of whois catblock.tk:

Domain name:
CATBLOCK.TK

Organisation:
Freedom Registry, Inc.
2225 East Bayshore Road #290
Palo Alto CA 94303
United States
Phone: +1 650-681-4172
Fax: +1 650-681-4173

Domain Nameservers:
NS01.FREENOM.COM
NS02.FREENOM.COM
NS03.FREENOM.COM
NS04.FREENOM.COM

Your selected domain name is a domain name that has been
cancelled, suspended, refused or reserved at the Dot TK Registry

It may be available for re-registration at http://www.dot.tk

In the interim, the rights for this domain have been automatically
transferred to Freedom Registry, Inc.

Please be advised that the Dot TK Registry, Freenom and
Freedom Registry, Inc. cannot be held responsible for any content
that was previously available at this domain name.

Due to restrictions in Dot TK 's Privacy Statement personal information
about the previous registrants of the domain name cannot be released
to the general public.

Dot TK is proud to work with numerous governmental law enforcement
agencies to stop spam, fraud, phishing attempts, child pornography and
other illicit content on Dot TK websites. These agencies may contact the
Dot TK Registry directly with any enquiries they may have regarding the
usage of this domain by previous registrants.

Record maintained by: Dot TK Domain Registry

Create a basic website

To ease server load, we will reduce the amount we rely on WordPress by making a website in HTML, CSS & JS.