Amazon UI interference

magnoliasouth · Post by **magnoliasouth** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:09 pm

This is important as I cannot see any shopping tabs at the top now. I do not want to allow ads to Amazon because I don't want to see any ads, naturally. The problem is that the majority of the normal UI is no longer visible.

I disabled only ABP to check to see if this was the culprit, and it is.

Please fix this right away because I do not like having to disable ABP at all.

magnoliasouth · Post by **magnoliasouth** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:32 pm

Just wanted to add that it also seems to interfere with NoScript. When Adblock is disabled, NoScript lists a couple of blocked scripts. When Adblock is enabled, NoScript appears to have no blocked scripts.

If I disable NoScript (with ABP enabled), the Amazon UI is still not fully visible. If I completely disable ABP, Amazon resumes working properly.

I uninstalled and reinstalled ABP, but the Amazon UI is still not fully visible with ABP enabled.

I'm not sure if this is helpful in identifying the bug, but I sure hope so. As it is, ABP must be disabled until a fix is made.

chewey · Post by **chewey** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:52 pm

Could you please not be so scarce on details?

What subscription are you using? Do you happen to have own rules added?

And, just for your information: there are dozens of different amazon sites all
over the world. You don't expect someone to check all possible combinations
to find the problem, do you?

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:54 pm

Link example please? What subscription(s) are you using. Adblock Plus blocks nothing on its own ... there is nothing to fix.

magnoliasouth · Post by **magnoliasouth** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:29 pm

chewey: Your sarcasm has killed any kind of polite response I might give you. I'm not a programmer and I don't what YOU need to know. I apologize if my psychic abilities are down these days. I thought these forums were to report what was wrong and for someone to respond kindly asking for more information, if I didn't provide enough or not the right information. Now if you want to ask nicely, I shall be happy to answer you. It's simple: amazon.com Tough, eh?

You know, I've always recommended AdblockPlus to new Firefox users, but if this is the kind of attitude new users will encounter when they try to report a problem, I'll save you the time from having to read them by no longer making the recommendation. Is this what you'd prefer?

rick752: Can you tell me what link example you're talking about? The main page at amazon.com is not visible. Is that the link you need?

Subscriptions:
EasyList
EasyElement
Fanboy's
Jamie
Jab

Should I turn those off one at a time to see if this is the culprit? How would I go about doing that?

chewey · Post by **chewey** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:45 pm

magnoliasouth wrote:chewey: Your sarcasm has killed any kind of polite response I might give you. I'm not a programmer and I don't what YOU need to know. I apologize if my psychic abilities are down these days.

I don't know where you found sarcasm in my comment. I admit I was deliberately not
as kind as I use to be. This wasn't because of your lack of psychic abilities however,
but because of your lack of reading comprehension skills.

We do have the "Problems? please read this." sticky for a reason.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:51 pm

magnoliasouth wrote: Should I turn those off one at a time to see if this is the culprit? How would I go about doing that?

Yes .. just click the green bullet next to the "Filter Subscription" name and say APPLY. Then reload the Amazon page.

The EasyList & EasyElement subscriptions should be fine (they work here). I would say that you are also using too many similar subscriptions.

IceDogg · Post by **IceDogg** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:56 pm

magnoliasouth, Yes, try disabling all but Rick's Easylist and easyelements, because I know they work I just checked. Check them off one at a time till you find the right list that is causing the problem. You might then re-enable that list and press control+shift+B to see which filter (exactly) is causing the problem and report it back here to the filter maker can fix the problem. Also I would recommend not using so many different list.

As for noscript, it's probably not interfering with Noscript directly, it's just blocking the scripts before Noscript can see them.

As to the "attitude", You have to have some thick skin at times to visit support forums for anything. First and foremost because what someone intends may not be how you read it. Light, joking comments can be seen as insults or maybe they didn't mean it as "sarcasm" at all. I've learn over the last couple of years not to take things on forums personal and not to judge a whole forum by a couple of post. Chewey is a good guy. He's probably just frustrated with lack of info to help people, we run into that here all the time. And he wasn't wrong in his reply, and used the word please. Don't read anything extra into it's just text, no way to know. And there is many many amazon main pages for different countries.

edit: Rick beat me to it.. took to long to type this up... thinking of what to say exactly.

magnoliasouth · Post by **magnoliasouth** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:39 pm

Thanks rick and ice. The offending subscription is jamieplucinski.com, which I have now disabled.

I really appreciate the help! Phew! I was worried, something awful, that I wouldn't be able to use ABP any longer. This is a relief to be sure.

As for the number of subscriptions; I've used them all, for about a year I think now, without an issue up to this moment. Do you mind my asking why the list should be pared? I'm just curious so I know what to tell others.

Again, many thanks.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:00 pm

magnoliasouth wrote: As for the number of subscriptions; I've used them all, for about a year I think now, without an issue up to this moment. Do you mind my asking why the list should be pared? I'm just curious so I know what to tell others.

There are a few reasons:
1. Many subscriptions are similar in what they block. Using a bunch of different ones to block a lot of the same things can become a real resource pig ... cause problems with similar filters being able to 'optimize' in ABP ... and simply just creating a lot of unnecessary redundancy. These will cause a slowdown in ABP.

2. You don't know who to direct a problem to (as this post attests to). ABP does not control the filters ... the list maintainers do.

3. Some strings in one maintainer's subscription could possibly cause a cause a conflict with another's subscription. There are some subscriptions that are specifically made to work with other ones. Those types are usually advertised as such.

@Jamie:
Ya got a problem to fix

magnoliasouth · Post by **magnoliasouth** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:08 pm

Thank you again. That's very helpful to know.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:23 pm

The best rule of thumb I can give you is to pick a subscription(s) that best defines your geographic region and language:
http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

jamieplucinski · Post by **jamieplucinski** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:22 am

Where are you posting from magnoliasouth? I just visited Amazon and I can't find any problems with it *at all*.

If possible could you provide a link to the page where the problem occurs so I can fix this?

Thanks.