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One of my favorite websites recently implemented a new policy which displays a sentence or two of a news article, then has a short Google questionnaire which must be filled out in order to see the rest of the article. However the user comments postings are still viewable below the question box. One of the users suggested installing Ghostery to automatically bypass this and see the entire article without having to answer the question. So I installed Ghostery (IE 10, Win 7/64) and while it does show all the items it has blocked, the question is still there and keeps me from reading the article.
How do I configure Ghostery to keep the question from popping up so I can just read the article?
Thanks.
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How to bypass questionnaire which blocks content
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Hi Jim,
Thanks for downloading Ghostery!
Can you send me the URL so I can take a look? Also, which version of windows are you using?Comment -
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Thanks for your reply.
http://www2.kusports.com/news/mens_ba...
Click on any of the articles. When the new page opens, it has a few sentences then the obnoxious questionnaire. Thanks. -
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CHAMP
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Does it look like this?
That comes from this little gem:
<!-- new google Survey code -->
<script type="text/javascript"> (function() {
var ARTICLE_URL = window.location.href;
var CONTENT_ID = 'everything'; document.write(
'<scr'+'ipt '+ 'src="//survey.g.doubleclick.net/survey?site=66173232'+ '&url='+encodeURIComponent(ARTICLE_URL)+
(CONTENT_ID ? '&cid='+encodeURIComponent(CONTENT_ID) : '')+ '&random='+(new Date).getTime()+
'" type="text/javascript">'+'\x3C/scr'+'ipt>');
})(); </script>
<!-- /Google Survey code -->
» Set Ghostery to block DoubleClick, and it will go away.
[If we decide this is worth breaking out into its own line item, there are other variants — see busyteacher.org for an example.]
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Eric
Thanks for your help. It did work for the first day or so but now it continues to come up even when I set ghostery to block everything. Your thoughts? -
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Eric
Still doing it. Any thoughts yet as to how to avoid these annoying questions on every article?
Jim
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Yes or No: is Ghostery blocking
DoubleClick(displayed with a line running through it)?
If so, all I can really suggest is trying a different browser (not IE).
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Eric
DoubleClick doesn't even show up as something Ghostery has found.
Am I doing something wrong in my settings? I have everything set to be blocked. Thanks.
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I'm not sure we're on the same page here — literally. Can you post a URL where DoubleClick's absent but you're seeing the survey? (There might be another variant.)
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That's just like my earlier example: the survey is detected as DoubleClick (and blockable as such). I don't see Facebook Connect, Google +1, or Twitter Button — that's why I think we're looking at two different things.
Anyone else want to try to reproduce this? I'm out of ideas.
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Eric
I really appreciate your time on this and didn't mean to make a big deal about it. Could they have some kind of learning script on the site? Like I said, DoubleClick showed up when we first tried this and after I blocked it, the survey went away for a day or two. Now it doesn't show up for me at all, but it does for you, so I wonder if the site figured it out and did a work around for an address who had previously blocked DoubleClick. Just wondering....
Here's what that page looks like to me with Ghostery enabled.
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That's what I would expect if the survey script were served from some domain other than doubleclick.net. I seriously doubt the site has achieved sentience, but that doesn't rule out a simple explanation.
You'd need to view the HTML source of the page you're receiving to find out what's really going on. If it contains code that looks like the snippet I posted earlier (using survey.g.doubleclick.net), then you've probably encountered an IE-specific issue with Ghostery. If it's different, then they're doing something sneaky, and I'm curious what it is.
It's a good mystery, but I don't think I'm going to solve it. Someone else needs to jump in at this point.
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Eric
I looked at the source and found the survey.g.doubleclick.net code just like you said. So I downloaded and installed Chrome then installed Ghostery on Chrome. Low and behold, the site I gave you now shows DoubleClick with a strikethrough, just like it did in IE back when. It also bypasses the survey as I had hoped. Now we will see if it stays that way or not over time. Thanks again for your help.
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