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On 06/04/2017 07:39 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 06/04/2017 02:17 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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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 |
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> Bad news... |
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> I have Chrome installed, and I went to the first linked website and |
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> added a Block exception for criteo.com no problem. |
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> Dan |
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Whoops! I realized you're using chromium, not Chrome itself. Nevermind... |
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I'll try building it and see. |
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Dan |