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I just had the experience of visiting a linux-related site |
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(http://libv.livejournal.com/22968.html) and seeing a panel with ads |
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about house appliances (from a site I had actually visited before). |
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The panel actually blocks part of the page, and is impossible to |
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remove. This is caused by some javascript linked to some crap-factory |
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named criteo.com. |
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I'm using chromium, but I just checked that the same happens with |
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Firefox, so the fault lies with |
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http://libv.livejournal.com and not with Google (for once) |
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Now, I tried to edit the settings of chromium to block javascript from |
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criteo.com. Guess what, the "manage exceptions..." dialog opens a |
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popup window with an example for the aptly named domain example.com, |
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and _doesn't allow any change at all_! No way to add an exception, nor |
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to remove it (not that there's much to remove) |
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Ah, the state of browsers for linux! |
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Please tell me I'm not the only one to whom such beautiful things happen. |
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Jorge Almeida |