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Author Topic: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?  (Read 6693 times)

Bowdon

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Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« on: July 20, 2016, 10:57:57 AM »

I just went to the BT website and noticed the adblock was disabled. The icon was shaded out. So I went to the settings to see if I had previously selected to disable it on BT's website, and I hadn't.

So have BT found a way to disable adblock?

See if your adblock addon is disabled when you go to the BT website?
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Re: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2016, 11:17:46 AM »

Still shows red for me.
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Re: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2016, 11:28:37 AM »

More likely a side effect of the current major UK wide problem(s) than anything specific to Adblock ....
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Re: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2016, 11:29:55 AM »

I dont use adblock, but ublock. Adblock does I believe allowed paid sites to bypass its protection.

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Re: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2016, 11:46:42 AM »

It's weird. It's still showing disabled even though its not set to disabled in the options.

I dont think ive white listed the bt site.

I might try a re-install of it.
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Bowdon

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Re: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2016, 12:48:35 PM »

I noticed someone on the adblock forum having the exact same issue as me a few years ago.

He hit report the page and after me selected adblock wasnt blocking advertisements despite me having it enabled. It said adblock was disabled on this page and it was probably during to my configuration settings. It then give me an option to change the configuration settings and then to reload the webpage before I submitted the report.

So I selected to change the configuration settings (which it does without me having to do anything else), and then I selected to reload the page and now adblock is back working again.
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Re: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2016, 02:36:42 PM »

give me the url and I will test, no point testing if I dont know the "exact" page you visited.  BT's website will have several pages.
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Re: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2016, 04:58:29 PM »

Is this a Firefox add-in that you are referring to?

I use an iPad app with that name, or similar.
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Re: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2016, 07:50:13 PM »

It was http://home.bt.com

@Weaver It's probably the same addon. They have done it for a few devices and browsers.

The issue seems to be fixed by a configuration change. Though I'm not sure what it changed but it now works.
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Re: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2016, 07:58:52 PM »

Ublock for me shows some blocking on domains etc on this site, certainly nothing has been disabled.

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Re: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2016, 12:44:27 AM »

Showing red for me.
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Re: Anyone who uses adblock can you test something?
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2016, 01:47:49 AM »

is fine here.

Note my ublock is in advanced mode also.

It blocks all 3rd party scripts and 3rd party frames unless I whitelist them.

I only had to whitelist bt.com on that page for it to display properly and with no ad's.
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