[LINK] SMH "comments"?

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Mon May 31 14:15:58 AEST 2010


On 2010/May/31, at 1:35 PM, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:

> On Mon, 31 May 2010, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>
>> Delving deeper still, Adblocker is the culprit for me: If I disable  
>> it, I can sign up or login and see the comments panel.
>
>
> Hi Ivan - this was the solution for me!   I don't recall refreshing  
> Adblocker recently though,
> so perhaps something changed on the SMH side?!

Adblocker updates itself.  Usually one of the first things it asks you  
is to choose a subscription.

> Thanks for the big help!   And here I was hoping for a nice juicy  
> conspiracy theory.

Happy to provide ;-)  It's in some ways a very clever solution for  
website owners' problem of adblocker users.  Make parts of the website  
fail if your client is blocking ads.

> Oh well,
> back to the real world......
>
>
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