AdBlock Plus and the Popups on the Frontpage

"VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely" (vajazzlemcdildertits) 09/25/2018 at 16:18 • Filed to: None

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Has anyone noticed recently that with AdBlock Plus on, the front page is now blocking 300+ pop ups just scrolling around? I don’t use any other extensions but that seems to have started recently. Anyone have an ideas why? 

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 09/25/2018 at 16:34

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no idea... i have ublock origin now coz nibbles told me to use it (i figures i must not anger the nibbles)

but anyhoo... its blocking 20

Aremmes > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 09/25/2018 at 16:35

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Probably from Kinja moving (more) assets to CDNs.

Urambo Tauro > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 09/25/2018 at 16:36

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Wow, i s it over 300? My counter (Disconnect, not ABP) maxes out at “99+”.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Aremmes 09/25/2018 at 16:40

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This actually makes hella sense. 

MarquetteLa > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 09/25/2018 at 16:41

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I was seeing a bug last week to where I would load a page and my AdBlock Plus extension kept racking up the count, about 100 per 30 seconds. The page’s performance was also quite bad, so once the ABP count reached 1,000 I closed the tab. I blame infinite scrolling.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Urambo Tauro 09/25/2018 at 16:42

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Check this shit out. Happens with the infinite scrolling at the bottom of a page.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > MarquetteLa 09/25/2018 at 16:42

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Yeah! I am basically seeing the same thing. 

Censored > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 09/25/2018 at 16:45

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ABP on FF and it is blocking about 50 on all the GMG websites.

user314 > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 09/25/2018 at 16:46

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Quality writing like you get on the FP isn’t free!

Urambo Tauro > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 09/25/2018 at 16:51

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Urambo Tauro > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 09/25/2018 at 16:51

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Oof.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Urambo Tauro 09/25/2018 at 16:55

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You’re the sparkle in my Kinja brand sparkling wine. 

404 - User No Longer Available > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 09/25/2018 at 16:58

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The number isn't a count of number of popups but the number of browser elements, e.g. images, scripts, etc. So one popup might count towards a few of those. Stuff like tracking scripts also count towards it.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > 404 - User No Longer Available 09/25/2018 at 17:02

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A variable I hadn’t considered. Good info. 

facw > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 09/25/2018 at 17:14

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Yep, I’ve seen it. I assume they (or just as likely some ad network) has a script that behaves poorly when assets are being blocked. I imagine it will be fixed eventually.

Rico > MarquetteLa 09/25/2018 at 18:44

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Seems like a new scheme to punish people who use pop up blockers by bringing the page performance down to a crawl.