Embedded Posts Triggering Adblock

[elliottsaray]

Hello,

I work as a web developer at a startup called Whichit based out of Central London, We're in the process of improving the embed process for our users.

Whichit is a social polling tool, our embed allows a user to embed their Whichit (an image-based poll) on their site.

Currently, our setup is composed of a blockquote object with a placeholder, an injector script and an iframe in the user's site.

The javascript and iframe mostly communicate with eachother passing postMessages to one another to handle resizing and respsonsiveness. We decided on this approach after measuring the success of Instagram's embed process on our own site.

Instagram's embed doesn't seem to be blocked by ABP, but ours at Whichit gets mangled and bound with dummy content, preventing it from loading.

I've noticed that our embed is not blocked by ABP if we have an Instagram embed on the same page.

I'm wondering if this is due to Instagram's cdn being whitelisted or if there's another approach we need to take.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

Thanks,
Elliott

[mapx]

You should provide an example page.
If you install ABP for firefox you can see what elements are blocked (click ABP icon, open blockable items list, you now can see in red the blocked elements and what filters are triggered ==> eventually if you dont provide ads you can rename those elements)