It appears that AdBlockPlus are doiung this through the 'URL Fixer' addon at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/url-fixer/, which they also use to make money off the typo-correction procedure (using affiliate links). There's more information at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/url-fixer/.
I'll drop them an email shortly.
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On 26 November 2012 10:11, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
I received the same error when I visited http://incubator.wikimedia.org/ , suggesting that I wanted to go to incubator.wikipedia.org , and asking if I wanted to block wikimedia.org
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 24 November 2012 16:41, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
AdBlock Plus has a facility to protect users from typosquatting (as in, typing "poopal.com" rather than "paypal.com")
Ouch.
Does someone want to work out how to complain to the relevant parties?
Is there no facility to report false positives on their website?
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