Separate *ad* related css with others to avoid usability issues regarding firefox with Adblock plus

Sep 13, 2006 09:34


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Separate *ad* related css with others to avoid usability issues regarding firefox with Adblock plus installed

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Currently css files comes within one style tag, and unfortunately it falls into Adblock+ filter rules.

Full description of the ideaFor several days all livejournal system pages becomes style-less, ( Read more... )

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kwokj September 29 2006, 04:59:24 UTC
even though this has already been rejected, do you mind clarifying what you were asking, just for my curiosity? I use firefox and adblock plus, and I didn't have to do anything out of the ordinary to block the ads, so I can't figure out what you're talking about.

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foxfirefey September 29 2006, 05:15:55 UTC
This and this might help explain the situation a bit. The suggestion is aiming to tweak the CSS URLs so that folks' ad blockers would be less likely to be tripped and block the CSS.

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kwokj September 29 2006, 05:22:55 UTC
interesting. I didn't encounter any of that because I block google ads, and block the iframes.

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foxfirefey September 29 2006, 05:24:21 UTC
Some people download or create filters that are rather, er, aggressive. You sound like you know everything that is on your filter list.

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kwokj September 29 2006, 05:26:03 UTC
haha, yeah. I chose not to download any filter packages (not that I even knew that was an option until the most recent update...) and just set them myself as I went along.

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