Ad-Blocker

[aioeuser]

Firefox 50.1.0
Win XP Pro

Try to go to a webpage and it will not let me see stuff on the page
because it says I have an ad blocker.

I looked all through the Add-On and see no ad blocker.

What causes this?
Where do I look now?

Asking here because you are smarter than the Firefox newsgroup.

TIA

[[email protected]]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 20:15:40 -0800, AIOEUSER >
wrote:

>Firefox 50.1.0
>Win XP Pro
>
>Try to go to a webpage and it will not let me see stuff on the page
>because it says I have an ad blocker.
>
>I looked all through the Add-On and see no ad blocker.
>
>What causes this?
>Where do I look now?
>
>Asking here because you are smarter than the Firefox newsgroup.
>
>TIA

Are you blocking cookies?

[T]

On 12/22/2016 08:15 PM, AIOEUSER wrote:
> Firefox 50.1.0
> Win XP Pro
>
> Try to go to a webpage and it will not let me see stuff on the page
> because it says I have an ad blocker.
>
> I looked all through the Add-On and see no ad blocker.
>
> What causes this?
> Where do I look now?
>
> Asking here because you are smarter than the Firefox newsgroup.
>
> TIA

Hi TIA,

Go to the three line "hamburger", select Extensions. Clips
on Extensions again on in the left column.

At the top right type in "ublock orgin". It is bribeless.
The other guys take bribe to white list sites.

HTH,
-T

[VanguardLH[_2_]]

AIOEUSER > wrote:

> Firefox 50.1.0
> Win XP Pro
>
> Try to go to a webpage and it will not let me see stuff on the page
> because it says I have an ad blocker.
>
> I looked all through the Add-On and see no ad blocker.
>
> What causes this?
> Where do I look now?
>
> Asking here because you are smarter than the Firefox newsgroup.

Start Firefox in its safe mode and revisit the problematic web site.
Could be one of the extensions you installed is doing some blocking.

If that doesn't eliminate the problem, start Windows in its safe mode
and retest with Firefox at the problematic web site. Could be something
you installed as a startup program is doing some blocking.

Is it a secret web site? URL to site please so we can test if the
problem occurs in our setups.

Sorry, but I find the Firefox newsgroup (mozilla.support.firefox) on
Mozilla's NNTP server (news.mozilla.org, port 119) to have a better
grasp on problems with Firefox than a general OS newsgroup. Because
Mozilla's newsgroups are moderated, it can take 1 to 12 hours before
your post shows up there (until the moderator gets around to either
approving or rejecting your submission). Be sure to just ask a
question. If you express any negativity about Mozilla or Firefox, Ilias
(the moderator) will likely reject your submission. Be very neutral.

[Paul[_32_]]

AIOEUSER wrote:
> Firefox 50.1.0
> Win XP Pro
>
> Try to go to a webpage and it will not let me see stuff on the page
> because it says I have an ad blocker.
>
> I looked all through the Add-On and see no ad blocker.
>
> What causes this?
> Where do I look now?
>
> Asking here because you are smarter than the Firefox newsgroup.
>
> TIA

Think functionally.

The web page uses Javascript.
As well as regular cookie storage, the browser can
use DOM storage for persistence. So they can set a super-cookie,
even if regular cookies no longer interest them.

The web page needs to visit certain other sites. As verification
you've seen the advertising content. Maybe doubleclick.net.
It could be, that doubleclick.net is down or unreachable, which
might have caused the reaction on the client end. Maybe you block
doubleckick.net with your HOSTS file.

The user is expected to do more debugging, than
the web site developer ever did...

And Firefox is headed in the direction of not allowing
us to add stuff to it, so soon, you won't really be
able to meddle quite as much. And the list of questions
is going to be shorter.

And generally, a person in mozilla.* is going to ask for
at least one URL where the problem manifests itself. For
example, I can think of one site right now, that doesn't
work for anybody. But I can't tell you what that page is
because it is a secret.

Paul

[[email protected]]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 09:14:50 -0500, Paul >
wrote:

>AIOEUSER wrote:
>> Firefox 50.1.0
>> Win XP Pro
>>
>> Try to go to a webpage and it will not let me see stuff on the page
>> because it says I have an ad blocker.
>>
>> I looked all through the Add-On and see no ad blocker.
>>
>> What causes this?
>> Where do I look now?
>>
>> Asking here because you are smarter than the Firefox newsgroup.
>>
>> TIA
>
>Think functionally.
>
>The web page uses Javascript.
>As well as regular cookie storage, the browser can
>use DOM storage for persistence. So they can set a super-cookie,
>even if regular cookies no longer interest them.
>
>The web page needs to visit certain other sites. As verification
>you've seen the advertising content. Maybe doubleclick.net.
>It could be, that doubleclick.net is down or unreachable, which
>might have caused the reaction on the client end. Maybe you block
>doubleckick.net with your HOSTS file.
>
>The user is expected to do more debugging, than
>the web site developer ever did...
>
>And Firefox is headed in the direction of not allowing
>us to add stuff to it, so soon, you won't really be
>able to meddle quite as much. And the list of questions
>is going to be shorter.
>
>And generally, a person in mozilla.* is going to ask for
>at least one URL where the problem manifests itself. For
>example, I can think of one site right now, that doesn't
>work for anybody. But I can't tell you what that page is
>because it is a secret.
>
> Paul

I have mine set up to let me authorize cookies and sometimes it hangs
on double click or google analytics. If I immediately reload the page
after I have selected cookie handling (usually delete after close) it
comes right through.