Users of adblockers might be having trouble with site scheme CSS

Sep 11, 2006 08:03


Lately there's been a spate of Support complaints about site CSS not loading, or the site looking plain or not having any styling, which is a result of the CSS not loading.

This is because AdBlock or other ad blocking software is blocking the CSS's URL because it contains the text "ad_base.css". (Kind of like how every now and again someone can't see anything on no_lj_ads because it has "ads" in the URL!)

ad_base.css seems to be showing up in Horizon and XColibur's CSS URL but not Dystopia's or Lynx's. (And these URLs are paid viewed--ad_base.css seems to be loaded even if the user is paid and has no use for the ad CSS.) The change in CSS URLs was done to simplify system code.

Examples of stylesheet hrefs with the problem bolded

Horizon:

http://stat.livejournal.com/??ad_base.css,horizon/screen.css,horizon/horizontal.css?v=1155850796

XColibur:

http://stat.livejournal.com/??lj_base.css,lj_settings.css,xc/basic.css,xc/menu-normal.css,xc/normal-fonts.css,ad_base.css,xc/extended.css?v=1154390211

Dystopia:

http://stat.livejournal.com/??lj_base.css,lj_settings.css?v=1154390211

Lynx:

http://stat.livejournal.com/??lj_base.css,lj_settings.css?v=1154390211

Solution: whitelist http://stat.livejournal.com. Ads don't come from there anyway. Or use Dystopia. Or hey, Lynx could use some love.

issues with ads, stylesheets, ad blocking techniques

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