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timmmay

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#278509 20-Oct-2020 13:03

Getting a massive banner on Geekzone that takes about the bottom 1/4 of the screen asking me to subscribe or allow ads. I'm a subscriber, and logged in. Comes back every page.

Seems like a bug. Site not really useable with this.

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#2588311 20-Oct-2020 13:04

Same here! Safari 14.0 on macOS.

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#2588312 20-Oct-2020 13:04

Me too.

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#2588313 20-Oct-2020 13:04

Was just about to post about this - same here!

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#2588314 20-Oct-2020 13:05

As a subscriber you can whitelist the site on your adblocker and then block the ads in your profile.

Because of the EU GDPR I had to make the code shown to everyone but will change somethings in the next few days.

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#2588316 20-Oct-2020 13:06

I have removed the adblocker message so it should not show now - although there is more code coming because of the EU GDPR.

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#2588321 20-Oct-2020 13:12

I use a network ad blocker, pi hole. Sure I could do that whitelist / for geekzone, but if every website wanted that kind of process it'd be annoying.

Seems resolved for now :)

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#2598119 5-Nov-2020 09:40

I have had this site whitelisted but still got the adblock banner, today I decided to see what else could be causing it......'Privacy Badger', so I disabled it for this site and the banner vanished......H'mmm, now why would be ??

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#2607265 19-Nov-2020 22:39

Just want to say that far from prompting me to subscribe, this banner popping up on every single page click has prompted me to stop visiting this website completely.

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#2607266 19-Nov-2020 22:43

@bmt:

Just want to say that far from prompting me to subscribe, this banner popping up on every single page click has prompted me to stop visiting this website completely.

I am sorry Geekzone was not providing you with value enough to justify either subscribing or unblocking ads.

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#2623255 17-Dec-2020 12:47

This seems to be back on some pages. Note that ads are being displayed (as expected).

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#2623258 17-Dec-2020 12:51

This looks like a false positive - perhaps some other script blocking something but not ads? Any more information you can provide, please?

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#2623260 17-Dec-2020 12:57

Firefox 84, Adblock Plus installed (GZ whitelisted). No other content/script etc. blockers installed. Intermittent, most page loads seem fine. I think it was this page I took the screenshot from

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#2623261 17-Dec-2020 13:00

Any of the Firefox tracking block options set?

RunningMan

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#2623272 17-Dec-2020 13:27

Yes, FF tracking content / crypto /fingerprinting are checked - had to double check these, but haven't made any changes to these. Murphy's law, haven't seen it again since posting, so perhaps something transient.

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