(no subject)

[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?

Comments

[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.