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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] managing chromium exceptions
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2017 14:42:20
Message-Id: aea6a1c2-0bfa-e6ac-7006-135a78faa2f1@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] managing chromium exceptions by Daniel Frey
1 On 06/04/2017 07:39 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
2 > On 06/04/2017 02:17 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
3 >> I just had the experience of visiting a linux-related site
4 >> (http://libv.livejournal.com/22968.html) and seeing a panel with ads
5 >> about house appliances (from a site I had actually visited before).
6 >> The panel actually blocks part of the page, and is impossible to
7 >> remove. This is caused by some javascript linked to some crap-factory
8 >> named criteo.com.
9 >> I'm using chromium, but I just checked that the same happens with
10 >> Firefox, so the fault lies with
11 >> http://libv.livejournal.com and not with Google (for once)
12 >>
13 >> Now, I tried to edit the settings of chromium to block javascript from
14 >> criteo.com. Guess what, the "manage exceptions..." dialog opens a
15 >> popup window with an example for the aptly named domain example.com,
16 >> and _doesn't allow any change at all_! No way to add an exception, nor
17 >> to remove it (not that there's much to remove)
18 >>
19 >> Ah, the state of browsers for linux!
20 >>
21 >> Please tell me I'm not the only one to whom such beautiful things happen.
22 >>
23 >> Jorge Almeida
24 >>
25 >
26 > Bad news...
27 >
28 > I have Chrome installed, and I went to the first linked website and
29 > added a Block exception for criteo.com no problem.
30 >
31 > Dan
32 >
33
34 Whoops! I realized you're using chromium, not Chrome itself. Nevermind...
35
36 I'll try building it and see.
37
38 Dan