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

[bbbush]

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

Short, concise description of the idea
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,

Comments

[ex_uniquewo]

Yep. Had a 0_o moment before I understood what the problem was.

[ruakh]

Maybe instead of separating out the CSS, the ad-CSS should just have a less obvious filename?

[asciident]

This suggestion has at this time been rejected by site employees. It will be reconsidered at a later date.

[What does this mean?]

[zorkfox]

Wow. That was probably the fastest rejection I ever saw, at 2.5 days. Or is there a previous record of which I'm unaware?

Has a suggestion ever actually been reconsidered? If so, I'd love to know which one, when it was suggested, how long it took before it was reconsidered, and whether or not it was actually implemented. As far as I can tell, when you guys reject something, you just let it rot in the archives of this "community" and never look at it again. As good as: $ rm suggestion.txt except you can point to it and say, "Look! It's still, technically, in the archive! Really!"

I think you guys should realize that people are going to use ad-blocking software, legitimately, and that this fact should not result in those users seeing a garbled and demolished site layout: especially if they're paying for the service with cash. At the very least you should consider ruakh's suggestion: "Maybe instead of separating out the CSS, the ad-CSS should just have a less obvious filename?"

Please re-open this suggestion for consideration right

[anotherdream]

It is not a website's responsibility to work around its users' over-eager adblocking, or the filters and extensions that some of them happen to use. I personally see it as something like overly paranoid firewall settings: if the users insist on using such, then it is not the website's responsibility to make sure these settings do not interfere. It is the users' own responsibility to see that their extensions, settings and filtering fo not interfere with their use of the Internet. Especially as there is an easy way to solve this on the user's side.

Also, you know, asciident as the maintainer of this community is just the messenger. She doesn't call the shots on suggestions, she just delivers them to devs and then tells users what the devs said. It is of no use to demand her to do anything about a suggestion, as it's not in her power to do so. Her reply was also a very standard one, and not "rude" in any special way.

[ex_uniquewo]

Over-eager? You kidding right? I use the extension and the filterset that I don't know how many people are using. That's it. Or are you saying that "ad-blocking" itself is the issue here?

Could we have an answer about the second paragraph, please? The one about suggestions being reconsidered?

[zorkfox]

I think this is an awesome suggestion. I glared at the screen for three days before I figured out what the heck was wrong with the site. I kept thinking: . o O ( There must be a hundred support tickets about this by now. I won't add to their woes by making one of my own. They know something's wrong. They'll fix it. ) ...Except they didn't, and if asciident's rejection comment above is any indication, they're not going to fix it. How rude.

[kwokj]

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.

[foxfirefey]

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.

[kwokj]

interesting. I didn't encounter any of that because I block google ads, and block the iframes.

[foxfirefey]

Some people download or create filters that are rather, er, aggressive. You sound like you know everything that is on your filter list.