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MichaelIsGreat
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webmd.com blocks ABP users in Firefox but ...

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With FF46, on this page on "Shingles Vaccine: What You Need to Know" at http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and- ... es-vaccine
this site blocks ABP users! But when I disabled ABP, the page showed up but when ABP is on, the page disappears!!

But the strange thing is that on Internet Explorer with also ABP on, the page does not disappear even though I have ABP on but I do not have various subscription lists on Internet Explorer that I have on Firefox.

I have on FF46: EasyList, Malware Domains, Adblock Warning Removal list, EasyPrivacy, Prebake - Filter obstructive cookie notices, Peter Lowe's list.

Thanks for your feedback mapx.
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mapx
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Post by mapx »

I added all your lists, no issues here, I can see normally the page.
Are you using other blocking addons ?
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Post by MichaelIsGreat »

Hello mapx,

No, I do not use any other blocking addons.

I see the page too for 1 second and then it disappears when I use FF46 and when ABP is enabled.

It is strange that you cannot replicate my issue. I tried again the same link and it does the same again.

I only have the custom filters used for various things such as:
---promoted content from the web
---Forbes blockage
---CNN video blockage

That is it.
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Re: webmd.com blocks ABP users in Firefox but ...

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en/getting_started#false-negatives
Submit an ABP issue report and past the link here.
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mapx
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Re: webmd.com blocks ABP users in Firefox but ...

Post by mapx »

Try also disabling temporarily the filters for promoted content.
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Post by MichaelIsGreat »

Hello mapx,

Here are my custom filters:
---Promoted content from the web ads:
##[class$="_asi"]
##[class$="_image_holder"]
##[class$="_label_box"]
##[class*="mdeyheadline_"]
##[class$="_simule"]
##[class$="_box"] > A[target="_blank"][rel="nofollow"]
##DIV[cls*="_simule"]
##[cls*="_box"]
##[class$="revcontent"]
##[id^="rcjsload_"]
@@||samsung.com^$document
@@||http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/ ... |$document

---Forbes blockage:
@@||forbes.com^$generichide
@@||forbes.com^$genericblock
||moatads.com^$domain=forbes.com
||sharethrough.com^$domain=forbes.com
||amazon-adsystem.com^$domain=forbes.com
||tpc.googlesyndication.com^$domain=forbes.com
||googleads.g.doubleclick.net^$domain=forbes.com
||s0.2mdn.net^$domain=forbes.com
forbes.com##[id^="google_ads_iframe"]
forbes.com##[id^="top-ad"]
||securepubads.g.doubleclick.net^$domain=forbes.com
@@||securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?gdfp_req=1&correlator=$domain=forbes.com

---CNN video blockage:
@@||data.cnn.com^
@@||z.cdn.turner.com/analytics/cnnexpan/jsmd.min.js

---Taboola ads:
||taboola.com^
||images.taboola.com^
||taboolasyndication.com^$third-party

---Outbrain ads:
||outbrain.com^
||outbrain.com^$third-party

I disabled the custom filters for the Promoted content from the web ads and it did not change the issue on this webmd.com link.
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Post by mapx »

Disable all other addons, keep only ABP and submit an issue report:
en/getting_started#problems

Then post here the report link.
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Re: webmd.com blocks ABP users in Firefox but ...

Post by MichaelIsGreat »

Hello mapx,

For this problem, by unticking the Prebake- Filter Obtrusive Cookie Notices subscription filter, I could see the page fine even with my ABP on while all my other addons were disabled.

So I solved this problem this way. But the problem is that I do need this Prebake- Filter Obtrusive Cookie Notices subscription filter for other sites!
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Post by lewisje »

Consider an alternative, known as "Block the EU Cookie Shit List" (or maybe "I don't care about cookies").
There's a buzzin' in my brain I really can't explain; I think about it before they make me go to bed.
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Re: webmd.com blocks ABP users in Firefox but ...

Post by cmmc »

Not using the prebake list but pages still get blanked.
Filters applied in the page (from the filter lists, since the page is blank and there's no blocked content listed):

Ultimate

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||media.net^$third-party
||pagefair.net^$third-party
||postrelease.com^$third-party
||choices.truste.com^$third-party
||ls.webmd.com^
/b/ss/*&ndh=
||adobedtm.com^$third-party
||crwdcntrl.net^$third-party
||googleadservices.com^$third-party
||pagefair.com^$third-party
||scorecardresearch.com^$third-party
||tagsrvcs.com^$third-party
||webmd.com/pixel/
||preferences.truste.com^$third-party
||privacy-policy.truste.com^$third-party
||googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js$third-party
/newsletter-hover/*
##.cookie-consent
##.social-icons
##[title="Share on Facebook"]
##[title="Share on Twitter"]
##a[title="Share on Pinterest"]
||honcode.ch^$third-party
Shit list

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##.cookie-consent
Custom rules

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facebook.*^$third-party
/transparent.gif
||amazon-adsystem.com^
Submitted a report here: https://reports.adblockplus.org/8c38c46 ... 2d56348919

Incidentally, something to be improved in the report form: it usually complains about the number of active filter lists, but I could have all my filters in a single Humungous Filter List and it would be ok. In fact, Ultimate, with over 100k filters, is ok, but if I had 10 lists with a few hundreds/thousands filters each, it wouldn't.
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