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[theweaselking]

So, anyone know why every livejournal page is now trying (and failing, natch) to run some script hosted on surfingbird.ru? Googling suggests it's some Russian equivalent of Google Analytics?

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[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

It's the word. You know, the bird. The bird. The bird is the word.

[squizzlzilla.livejournal.com]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184

[andrewducker]

Been having issues with LJ pages never finishing loading for a couple of weeks now.

(Firefox)

Also, when I look at the Console I get:
Given URL is not permitted by the application configuration.: One or more of the given URLs is not allowed by the App's settings. It must match the Website URL or Canvas URL, or the domain must be a subdomain of one of the App's domains.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Oh good, it's not just me. This machine is just a few months old, so it probably doesn't need to be reconfigured either yet.

[endotoxin.livejournal.com]

Google Safe Browsing diag: Suspicious domain.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Errm... "This site is not currently listed as suspicious. Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days." :)

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

As mentioned above, some people have been having the problem for several weeks now (I first saw it mentioned here almost a month ago, one of the few places you can still actually talk at an LJ person; sometimes they'll even reply!), but it's only just hit me in the past couple days. Adblocking surfingbird.ru doesn't do anything for me, unfortunately.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Sooo... after finally getting pissed off enough to do more than a cursory fucking with it, I found that the problem is not Livejournal directly (for once). The cause is Adblock, and the " /adfox. " filter, not the surfingbird one. Since they're an ad-pusher, this also gets blocked by the " ://ads. " filter, at least on my end. Disabling the first filter, and adding an " @@adfox " exception, stops the infinite loading.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

..... And what ads would I be whitelisting by allowing that?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Also: Nope, disabling the /adfox. filter and adding an @@adfox exception doesn't fix the loading.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Turns out: Disabling adblock entirely doesn't fix the loading problem, even if I allow adfox.ru and surfingbird.ru to run scripts. So.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I don't see any ads coming through. Yet.

Don't you use Noscript/Ghostery? I don't, but that might be blocking it too, unless that's what you meant by letting scripts through.

And LJ at least seems to be aware of it, and they claim it's an Adblock/Firefox thing. I don't use Chrome, but I assume it would be the same there.