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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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