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foxfirefey in no_lj_ads

New affiliate script location

Apr 22, 2010 15:34

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Comments 15

tresjolie9 April 23 2010, 00:42:50 UTC

Thanks for this, was having trouble with clicking on links before.

foxfirefey April 23 2010, 00:44:16 UTC

It's quite the unfortunate script in that way.

tresjolie9 April 23 2010, 00:47:06 UTC

Yes, getting links to work, or even viewing community comments off the F-list was requiring tinkering with noscript.

isiscolo April 23 2010, 19:38:35 UTC

How do you add this filter to ABP?

foxfirefey April 23 2010, 19:41:31 UTC

Click on the AdBlock Plus icon in the bottom. Click the "Add Filter" button, and copy paste this into it:

http://l-stat.livejournal.com/js/pagestats/DR*.js

Hit enter and voila!

isiscolo April 23 2010, 19:51:36 UTC

Thank you! (Hmm, it seems to also block the javascript for posting a comment in the same page?)

cordykitten April 23 2010, 21:38:44 UTC

I tried to add the link to my filter; hope I made it work.
Thank you!

Question for foxfirefey: marahmarie April 24 2010, 03:49:18 UTC

What about this? http://yvi.dreamwidth.org/135580.html

Does what that post says mean ad-blocking the script will break the site? Just want to be clear about it before I go ahead and do so... :)

Re: Question for foxfirefey: foxfirefey April 24 2010, 03:52:34 UTC

I don't think so, as I'm not having that problem, but you'll break the site if you let LJ run scripts without blocking the affiliate link script, but block scripts from other sites. And even if you don't block any scripts, having it run can slow down your clicking.

Re: Question for foxfirefey: marahmarie April 24 2010, 03:57:13 UTC

OK, my mistake re comment below: I had outboundlink blocked. I'll try those links again. Sorry for probably false alarm.

Re: Question for foxfirefey: foxfirefey April 24 2010, 04:00:57 UTC

Oh yeah, blocking one but not the other will totally screw things up like you describe. That's what I ran into myself.

Also (free account, so I can't edit): marahmarie April 24 2010, 03:54:47 UTC

Links are freezing on me on LJ without ad-blocking anything at all - in any part of any page in site-scheme within anything you might call "entry-content" or "comment-content". I have to right-click/open in new tab to get around it. I don't have NoScript installed, either. Could this be another issue related to the script?

Re: Also (free account, so I can't edit): foxfirefey April 24 2010, 03:57:41 UTC

I'd (very politely) open up a Support Request about it, just noting what problem you have. Make sure you note what browser you are using (with any plug ins), the effects you are experiencing, etc. You don't have to speculate on the cause. Don't expect an answer back right away--Support is really overwhelmed right now, but the more people do that, the greater the chance that things might get fixed.

It does sound like something that could be related to this, if you are not using the opt out. Before you go to another link, the script wants to check with a third party to see if it should replace that URL with an affiliate one, and that could cause lag.

Re: Also (free account, so I can't edit): marahmarie April 24 2010, 04:00:45 UTC

OK, one more time, sorry - I wish I could edit comments to keep this simpler: I had to unblock media6degrees.com *and* outboundlink to get link functionality back. Seriously, what are they doing that adblock breaks link functionality? That's just not right.

Re: Also (free account, so I can't edit): marahmarie April 24 2010, 04:05:52 UTC

What I can't figure out is why those sites were blocked by ABP; if they're on Rick's filter list or if I added them in myself; I can't recall adding them but anything's possible. But what's weird is first I unblocked outbound, but links I clicked in entry-content/comment-content areas still wouldn't work. So I kept outbound unblocked, unblocked media6degrees as well, and voila, links worked normally again. Is this deliberate on their part?