Blocked Subdomain for reachlocal.com

[mark.leppke]

I'm a UX designer and front end dev working for Reachlocal.com

I use adblock and work with others who use it two. Our domain is blocked via a list on adblock, which make sense. We create paid per click ads for small businesses and adblock helps people not have intrusive adds.

I'm trying to figure out an issue related to our development teams and customers. We have a submdomain set up to serve assets for applications. For example bar.reachlocal.com. that serves some images, css, and javascript. When serving our own applications on localhost, adblock blocks access to the subdomain. Outside of telling adblock to not run on the page, is there a better way to make our developers lives easier?

Second question, and probably more important, if a customer comes to a reachlocal.com site and logs in, and that application uses foo.reachlocal.com and the CDN assets are on bar.reachlocal.com will our customers have that content blocked by adblock if they have adblock installed? Or does adblock allow content to be shared across the subdomain.

Any help or clarification would be awesome!

[Gingerbread Man]

This has nothing to do with either adblockplus.org or Adblock Plus translations. Moved to the Filters forum.

EasyList contains the following blocking filters:

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||ad.reachlocal.com^
||reachlocal.com^$third-party

The first means that ad.reachlocal.com is blocked everywhere.
The second means all of reachlocal.com is blocked on third-party sites only.
Therefore the site should work properly when accessed directly, but likely not when accessed via a local file, since that would still be a third-party connection.

Long story short, whitelist the site you're working on locally.

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@@||reachlocal.com^

If you need to add the whitelist filter to multiple user accounts, see the following post in the Large Scale Deployments forum:
forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=24598

[mark.leppke]

Thanks for the clarification!