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Okay, I started using G, and have everything blocked because I don't enough of what to block or let through. I'd rather err on the blocked side.
So when I can't read much on a page due to blocked panels that I want to see, or the entire page is blanl due to blocking, how do I undo the block for individual panels? I see where I can stop blocking for that domain/page that I am on, but I don't know what panel is what URL to block??
For example, weather.com - a dozen blank panels and a list of blocked URLs -- so how do I know which belong to which? I would think one would be able to right-click and have a choice like Temp unblock (let's see what it is?) Unblock always and everywhere, unblock on this site, etc, etc.
Am I missing something? if so, and the answer is there, it sure doesn't seem to be intuitive.
Thanks,
Ken
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hi Ken,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
We are working on updates to the panel that will allow you to narrow down which tracker is causing disruption on the page. But for now.. its really somewhat of a guessing game. Weather.com is a tough one since there are about 30+ trackers on that page. I actually whitelist weather.com since I want it to function correctly.
As you use it more you'll notice a few common trackers..
a common video tracker is Brightcove
a common blog tracker is Disqus
Hope that helps!Comment -
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CHAMP
1weather.com does something fairly unusual (unusual for a web page, not so unusual in television graphics). Those blank panels are placeholders; that's what the page actually looks like — it's basically just a template. The content you're expecting to see gets added in later. That whole process might only take a fraction of a second, but it's getting interrupted before it gets a chance to begin, because one of their custom scripts erroneously fails if Brightcove doesn't load first.
Unblocking Brightcove, and reloading the page, makes everything appear — even stuff that has nothing to do with Brightcove. That's why your idea of trying to figure out what's associated with a specific panel won't work; you can't see what isn't there.
Could a surrogate fix this? Very likely. Is it worth doing? Probably not — unless someone can demonstrate that other sites would benefit as well. Given that the problem originates in code that's unique to this site, the better way is [for someone] to ask weather.com to add a simple test to handle this situation gracefully (especially since it isn't Ghostery-specific).
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Ahh very cool. I unblocked that and blocked everything else and voila' !!
Thanks! :
I have no idea what I am doing, why I should be blocking (or shouldn't be and the consequences), but.... at least I was on somewhat the right track.
Ken -
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