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Re:German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking sof... by paulddraper on Sunday December 11, 2016 @02:04PM (#13152533)
AdBlock plus is intrusive. We had sporadic user complaints of our web SaaS not working. They had AdBlock and couldn't download files from S3 with certain keys.

They key was the hex encoding of the hash of the contents. f4/c0/34/ad/91/... Notice the ad

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Re:German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking sof... by alexpoulsen on Sunday December 11, 2016 @04:32PM (#13153411)
Lol That's funny At least whitelisting S3 is probably fine

I was QAing for a company. They had a link in an email go through a tracker as opposed to loading the tracker on another site. Obviously uBlock blocked it and confused me for a few minutes until I realized what it was blocking.

They didn't like my suggestion to have the tracker be loaded externally so if it was blocked, no big deal.

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