brennyj1980 June 19, 2011 10:35

Advanced blocking option

I set Ghostery to block all bugs and cookies. One website which is visit is www.cineworld.co.uk to see what's on at my local cinema, on this webpage is a dropdown box to allow you to pick a cinema, and underneath is a button to select that cinema, however with all the bugs blocked the button doesn't appear, I've noticed that the thing causing the problem is WebTrends, when I don't block this one I see the button, so basically I have 2 options, either don't block WebTrends or add www.cineworld.co.uk to the exception list. I think it would be good if there was an advanced option that allowed combining these options so I can allow WebTrends for this site only, rather than allow WebTrends for all sites or allow all bugs on this site.
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    Eric P. Scott June 19, 2011 21:52
    The local river overflows its banks in years with unusually heavy rainfall. The townspeople declare that Something Must Be Done. Do they (a) stockpile sandbags in a central location, then leave everyone to fend for themselves when the water rises -or- (b) support a flood control project that eliminates the danger?

    I think there may be a better way to handle this particular situation.

    What's expected:



    What's observed:



    What Ghostery blocks: http://www.cineworld.co.uk/assets/js/specialist/webtrends.packed.js

    What broke: jQuery Ajax

    Recommendation: provide a surrogate for dcsMultiTrack()

    Technical information:

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    Felix Shnir June 20, 2011 03:04
    Hi brennyj1980, thanks for using Ghostery.

    What you are experiencing is a common issue. While per-site rules are a while off, in the next release of Ghostery, we will replace the blocked scripts with dummy versions on them (commonly known as surrogates). This version is not public yet, but a beta is available upon request from me: felix@evidon.com. It should fix this issue.
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