Warning: AdBlock Plus kills some functionality here

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Warning: AdBlock Plus kills some functionality here

With AdBlock Plus enabled for this site (Apple Support Communities), several key capabilities are not displayed, even though AdBlock Plus reports that there are 0 blocked elements. When I disabled AdBlock Plus, full site functionality was restored.

One example is the ability to "unfollow" a discussion that one had previously been following. There is a "Follow" box to the right of the discussion header, and it is either checked or not. With AdBlock Plus running, the entire box is invisible.

NOTE: This is with Safari. Google Chrome does show the "Follow" box, even with AdBlock Plus enabled on it (Chrome).

Mark

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 11, 2015 7:12 PM

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Answer 1

babowa

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Feb 11, 2015 8:13 PM in response to Mark92630

So it must be browser specific - no problems here with Firefox.

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etresoft

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Feb 12, 2015 4:28 AM in response to Mark92630

Perhaps Apple is refusing to pay the ransom: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-now-whitelisted-on-a dblock-plus-10-pay-to-play/

I suggest you try Adblock instead. It has nothing to do with Adblock Plus and doesn't allow ads in for a fee.

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ChitlinsCC

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Feb 12, 2015 8:13 AM in response to Mark92630

As many others do, I use Firefox and as you state there is no problems here employing AdBlockPlus with no pref setting. But does ABP for Safari not have this easy to use pull down menu?

Maybe I am oversimplifying?

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Mark92630 Author

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Feb 12, 2015 8:41 AM in response to ChitlinsCC

"Disable" - Yes, that's what I did, and now this site works perfectly on Safari.

What you are missing is that there's no way to discover whether you're missing something when ABP is enabled in Safari, without trying each web page you visit both ways (with ABP enabled and disabled). That makes web surfing take way too long.

And if you end up disabling it everywhere, or almost everywhere, what good does it do to have it in the first place?

Mark

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ChitlinsCC

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Feb 12, 2015 10:22 AM in response to Mark92630

Mark92630 wrote:

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What you are missing is that there's no way to discover whether you're missing something when ABP is enabled in Safari, ...SNIP

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Mark

Mark

Couldn't agree more... I find it odd that an Apple Flagship Product - Safari - has ASC's Tools Blocked by a very stable and in widespread use AdBlocker, yet other competing browser products are just fine. I use a speed test website that detects AdBlockers and pops up a warning to disable it for accurate results. I looked at the Source Code the other day and the JavaScript is about 20 lines, 3 of which are the alert text.

When i first saw your question, I tried to find the threads in which I had participated in past weeks, but ran out of time - but they all exist SINCE modifications made to the ASC SiteWare in early June.

I wonder if the main Apple.com marketing site is missing anything vital? unlikely.

Thanks for putting this in the form of a Thread Title - as all the others were buried in solutions to "How do I do ..." OR "Why can't I do ..." threads.

... curiouser and curiouser, said Alice.

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