The Adblock detection of SketchUcation seems faulty
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This is just a rather minor issue but it is somewhat annoying.
This board doesn't display links and images when an Adblocker is installed and active, which is reasonable, I don't have any problem with that either as the ads here are both relevant and unobtrusive.The faulty behaviour here however is the way it checks whether ads are blocked or not. For example I use Adblock Plus, but whether I turn off the blocker for http://sketchucation.com or not doesn't make a difference. Instead I have to either turn it off for all sites or deactivate it completely which doesn't make any sense, unless the intent behind that is specifically to support ads on other totally unrelated websites as well.
Would be cool if you could fix it so it only cares whether the ads on this site are blocked or not.
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Sounds like a fault at your end, I can turn adblocker plus on and off on sketchucation without affecting any other site.
Even though as a premium member I am able to turn them off, I don't, but every other site I visit is blocked. -
That's odd. This system uses Adblock Plus 2.6.3, and the normal Firefox [34.0.5], and I have not really modified anything either. I wouldn't know of anything that could be at fault on my end, any ideas?
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I sometimes get that too.
Adblock blocking everything but Sketchucation and some other domains. Most of the times I see the ads, but some days they disappear at random. Not sure why.I'll do some tests next time it happens.
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I just installed and tested it on Chrome with a non premium account, my wife's, and same thing there. Can block or not individually.
Perhaps your filters are different, might be related to where you are.
I often have to change the filter lists when I change countries. -
You seem to be right about it working properly in Chrome, I just tried it out since I have many browsers for webdesign testing at hand anyway.
So it probably is a Firefox specific issue. The filter lists don't seem to be at fault though, I've tried changing them.
ABP offers me 3 options in Firefox:
- Deavtivate on domain
- Deactivate on current site only
- Deactivate everywhere
The blocking check of SketchUcation doesn't notice the first 2 settings though, it only works with #3.
When I use #1 or #2 the ads are displayed properly, but the images and links are still being removed. -
Maybe the boys will have an answer for you. But for me it works fine in FF too.
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In a small percentage of the time our ad service provider (BSA) fails to deliver the ads. If that happens then even with adblock off the ads won't display. So if sometimes when adblock is off you see no ads this is because of that.
If you won't see ads all the time even with adblock off that might be a different issue on your end.
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Selective Adblock deactivation on sites like Sketchucation.com works fine for me FF [34.0.5 same version as OP], BUT I have Adblock Plus v2.6.6 - which is 3 steps newer than the OP's 2.6.3??
Get the latest Addin and try again.
If it continues something is wrong with your setup - try clearing all of your settings, then adding SketchUcation.com back to the deactivation list... -
I just realized what seems to cause the issue, though I'm not sure why. There are those specific ads on the top, above threads and under the board index. When I choose to unblock sketchucation they however are still blocked. Might be either an issue with weird linking, or ABP does something wrong.
I can't seem to add a working exception for them either. -
Indeed, it was a bug with the old version of ABP. Not sure why the update passed me though...
Thanks for the help!
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