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edpalmer42:
What I don't understand is why refreshing the page will randomly pass/block the missing content in Firefox.

Red Squirrel:

--- Quote from: edpalmer42 on March 12, 2023, 11:44:04 pm ---What I don't understand is why refreshing the page will randomly pass/block the missing content in Firefox.

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That's what I find odd too.  I originally dismissed any possibility that it was ad blocker related because of that.  You'd think it would just be consistently not working.

Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 09, 2023, 12:40:15 pm ---Email sent, thanks.

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Better register and post it on the EasyList Forum – Report incorrectly removed content.

I can confirm that the erroneous rules, that hides user avatars and other images that are not ads, are
    eevblog.com###text-49
    eevblog.com##[data-pagespeed-url-hash][onload^="pagespeed"]

To actually block the ads on EEVBlog –– sorry Dave, but I have to, to be able to participate; I just cannot handle visible ads –– I do use
    ||www.eevblog.com/images/comm/*$image
    ||www.eevblog.com/forum/adseller/
so perhaps replacing the former with these two would be acceptable to EasyList maintainer (they're called fanboy on the above forum, and seem to monitor the forum actively).

Right now I'm running on a modified easylist.txt with the above changes.

I also have to block one animated avatar,
    ||www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=38498;type=avatar$image
as it too is just too distracting to me.


--- Quote from: edpalmer42 on March 12, 2023, 11:44:04 pm ---What I don't understand is why refreshing the page will randomly pass/block the missing content in Firefox.

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Firefox-Ublock Origin has some kind of bug that causes Ublock to turn off occasionally.  Explicitly turning Ublock off, reloading the offending tab, and turning Ublock back on, and reloading the offending tab again –– both times with Shiftl+Reload –– fixes the issue.

As to individual images, like a specific avatar but not all avatars, especially when seen for the first time, I've noticed that rarely, at high congestion, somebody) inserts RST packets to my HTTPS connections.  For images, that just causes them to stop loading.  It is not supposed to happen, and ISPs here promise they don't do that to connections involving HTTP or HTTPS ports, but RST injection is how they "combat torrents and other file sharing from overusing the network".

magic:

--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 14, 2023, 06:36:50 am ---    eevblog.com###text-49
    eevblog.com##[data-pagespeed-url-hash][onload^="pagespeed"]

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Do you happen to know what these lines mean?

AndyBeez:
FYI there edit:WAS is a domain squatter on "eevblog" using the ".co.uk" TLD. Do NOT click this See later post:

I once accidentally keyed this domain into my browser which then started a redirect sequence. A sequence that tried to send the browser to one of those sites that are all numbers and trace route stops responding somewhere in the south China sea. The squatter may have 'innocently' been moneterizing their spare domain via a trusty parking service [ like Sedo ]. But the advert redirdects where not from a trustworthy source.

I reported these redirect domains to Google using their alert service:
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/

On my LAN the rogue site is also blocked. Other rogue squatters with redirects may exist.

So similarily, someone, somewhere (a bot) may have been trying to do the right thing. But identified the wrong TLD.
* @eevblog Regarding an 'unauthorised' use of the intellectual property of a registerd trademark in the UK domain space, see:
https://www.nominet.uk/domain-support/uk-domain-disputes/

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