Getting pop up in Edge on Linux to allow ads. Neowin is white listed.

[cork1958]

Anyone have any idea why I keep getting this pop up when using Edge on Linux Mint on every page I go to? Neowin is white listed in ublock origin. Don't get the pop up when using Firefox or Chromium. Edge is current version.

[adrynalyne]

  On 25/01/2023 at 15:54, cork1958 said:

Anyone have any idea why I keep getting this pop up when using Edge on Linux Mint on every page I go to? Neowin is white listed in ublock origin. Don't get the pop up when using Firefox or Chromium. Edge is current version.

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Does it happen in incognito mode?

[Brandon H Supervisor]

I thought that was a piece of code that was removed several years ago

anything odd show in the F12 dev console?

any insight on this @Steven P. or @DaveLegg?

[cork1958]

  On 25/01/2023 at 15:58, adrynalyne said:

Does it happen in incognito mode?

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Yes

  On 25/01/2023 at 15:59, Brandon H said:

I thought that was a piece of code that was removed several years ago

anything odd show in the F12 dev console?

any insight on this @Steven P. or @DaveLegg?

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Showed some stuff that I'm not sure is safe to post? I'll post it anyway. What the heck!

[Intervention] Images loaded lazily and replaced with placeholders. Load events are deferred. See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2048113
5Tracking Prevention blocked a Script resource from loading <URL>.
cmp.quantcast.com/choice/SgN3NPpAChpt2/www.neowin.net/choice.js:1 
        
      
        
        
      
        
      
       
        
       Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT
root_library.js.gz?v=3fb6e90fbd1674616103:10 JQMIGRATE: Migrate is installed with logging active, version 3.3.0
root_library.js.gz?v=3fb6e90fbd1674616103:12 
        
       JQMIGRATE: jQuery.fn.bind() is deprecated
migrateWarn @ root_library.js.gz?v=3fb6e90fbd1674616103:12
root_library.js.gz?v=3fb6e90fbd1674616103:12 console.trace
migrateWarn @ root_library.js.gz?v=3fb6e90fbd1674616103:12
root_library.js.gz?v=3fb6e90fbd1674616103:12 
        
       JQMIGRATE: JQMIGRATE: jQuery.cssProps is deprecated
migrateWarn @ root_library.js.gz?v=3fb6e90fbd1674616103:12
root_library.js.gz?v=3fb6e90fbd1674616103:12 console.trace
migrateWarn @ root_library.js.gz?v=3fb6e90fbd1674616103:12
 

 

[adrynalyne]

  On 25/01/2023 at 16:11, cork1958 said:

Yes

Showed some stuff that I'm not sure is safe to post?

 

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Everything in the dev console should be safe to post. If not, thats indicative of a very serious issue.

[Steven P. Administrators]

If you have secure DNS enabled in Edge, that might be triggering the popup.. but I will report it to our advertiser.. anything  you can share like a MACE enabled DNS?

  On 25/01/2023 at 16:11, cork1958 said:

Yes

Showed some stuff that I'm not sure is safe to post? I'll post it anyway. What the heck!

[Intervention] Images loaded lazily and replaced with placeholders. Load events are deferred. See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2048113
5Tracking Prevention blocked a Script resource from loading <URL>.
cmp.quantcast.com/choice/SgN3NPpAChpt2/www.neowin.net/choice.js:1 

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This part looks like it is blocking the cookie consent, but that shouldn't need to run for you unless it is the checking if it should load part.

[Steven P. Administrators]

  On 25/01/2023 at 15:59, Brandon H said:

I thought that was a piece of code that was removed several years ago

anything odd show in the F12 dev console?

any insight on this @Steven P. or @DaveLegg?

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Our new advertiser has their own ad blocking tech checks. This sort of thing is only good against casual blockers anyway.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

  On 25/01/2023 at 17:13, Steven P. said:

Our new advertiser has their own ad blocking tech checks. This sort of thing is only good against casual blockers anyway.

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I was wondering if it might be something like that judging by the footer on that screenshot.

[cork1958]

  On 25/01/2023 at 17:05, Steven P. said:

If you have secure DNS enabled in Edge, that might be triggering the popup.. but I will report it to our advertiser.. anything  you can share like a MACE enabled DNS?

This part looks like it is blocking the cookie consent, but that shouldn't need to run for you unless it is the checking if it should load part.

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I do have secure DNS enabled, using OpenDNS, in Edge, which I also do in Firefox and Chromium and those 2 browsers aren't effected. No MACE enabled DNS.

  On 25/01/2023 at 17:13, Steven P. said:

Our new advertiser has their own ad blocking tech checks. This sort of thing is only good against casual blockers anyway.

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Again, this isn't happening in Firefox and Chromium which are pretty much set up the exact same way as Edge.

Edited January 25, 2023 by cork1958

[Steven P. Administrators]

  On 25/01/2023 at 17:30, cork1958 said:

I do have secure DNS enabled, using OpenDNS, in Edge, which I also do in Firefox and Chromium and those 2 browsers aren't effected. No MACE enabled DNS.

Again, this isn't happening in Firefox and Chromium which are pretty much set up the exact same way as Edge.

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No worries and thanks for checking. My contact is going to reach out to Admiral who provides the popup, I will update if they need more info.

[shockz]

  On 25/01/2023 at 15:54, cork1958 said:

Anyone have any idea why I keep getting this pop up when using Edge on Linux Mint on every page I go to? Neowin is white listed in ublock origin. Don't get the pop up when using Firefox or Chromium. Edge is current version.

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Ugh. Really? We're doing this Neowin?

[Brandon H Supervisor]

  On 25/01/2023 at 18:51, shockz said:

Ugh. Really? We're doing this Neowin?

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if you read through the thread Steve confirmed it's not us but the new advertiser we recently switched to that's pushing the popup

 

  On 25/01/2023 at 17:13, Steven P. said:

Our new advertiser has their own ad blocking tech checks. This sort of thing is only good against casual blockers anyway.

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[cork1958]

  On 25/01/2023 at 19:05, Brandon H said:

if you read through the thread Steve confirmed it's not us but the new advertiser we recently switched to that's pushing the popup

 

 

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If that's totally the case, why only in Edge when other 2 browsers which are set up as close to exactly the same as they can be then?

I do appreciate the assistance! I'm out of here for the day.

[shockz]

  On 25/01/2023 at 19:05, Brandon H said:

if you read through the thread Steve confirmed it's not us but the new advertiser we recently switched to that's pushing the popup

 

 

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Maybe better validate your advertisers then? When it's the face of your website, sorry, it's you. At least it's not redirecting/malicious like past times.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

  On 25/01/2023 at 19:18, cork1958 said:

If that's totally the case, why only in Edge when other 2 browsers which are set up as close to exactly the same as they can be then?

I do appreciate the assistance! I'm out of here for the day.

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probably something to do with Microsoft's implementation of their IE like privacy settings in it if I had to guess.

this stuff:

  On 25/01/2023 at 19:32, shockz said:

Maybe better validate your advertisers then? When it's the face of your website, sorry, it's you. 

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or you know, it's a bug since it's only affecting 1 browser in 1 scenario

[cork1958]

  On 25/01/2023 at 19:33, Brandon H said:

probably something to do with Microsoft's implementation of their IE like privacy settings in it if I had to guess.

this stuff:

or you know, it's a bug since it's only affecting 1 browser in 1 scenario

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Make that 2 scenarios. Also doing this in Edge on Windows 10. I do have that section in tracking prevention set to strict though. I'll change it and see what happens.

Edit: Yep, that setting seems to fix the issue but I'm leaving it set to strict. Doesn't have any effect on any other site and never has here before either. Will just have to make sure I don't come here when using Edge, I guess.

Edited January 26, 2023 by cork1958

[Brandon H Supervisor]

  On 26/01/2023 at 14:24, cork1958 said:

Make that 2 scenarios. Also doing this in Edge on Windows 10. I do have that section in tracking prevention set to strict though. I'll change it and see what happens.

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let us know how that goes, if it works then you could just add neowin to the exception list there so you can keep the rest of the net on strict.

just got word that it's started affecting one of our writers too though so Steve said he's gonna report it up the chain with our provider and ask them to disable and review it

[cork1958]

  On 26/01/2023 at 14:31, Brandon H said:

let us know how that goes, if it works then you could just add neowin to the exception list there so you can keep the rest of the net on strict.

just got word that it's started affecting one of our writers too though so Steve said he's gonna report it up the chain with our provider and ask them to disable and review it

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Didn't work at first by adding Neowin to exception list. I had entered just neowin.net then. Had to change it to the full url, https://www.neowin.net/

[cork1958]

Hey @Brandon H

Don't you get that pop up with your Edge setting at balanced, or had you already added neowin as an exception? I still did.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

  On 26/01/2023 at 15:01, cork1958 said:

Hey @Brandon H

Don't you get that pop up with your Edge setting at balanced, or had you already added neowin as an exception? I still did.

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my badge doesn't reflect it since I'm a sup but I also subscribe so the ad blocks don't load for me

[cork1958]

  On 26/01/2023 at 14:31, Brandon H said:

let us know how that goes, if it works then you could just add neowin to the exception list there so you can keep the rest of the net on strict.

just got word that it's started affecting one of our writers too though so Steve said he's gonna report it up the chain with our provider and ask them to disable and review it

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Please do post what ever Steve or you find out about reporting it.

Thanks :)

[Steven P. Administrators]

Our contact has agreed to disable it until they can fix it. So that should be happening soon.

I will update them with the Edge strict settings, thanks for the updates!

[spaceelf]

  On 26/01/2023 at 16:56, Steven P. said:

Our contact has agreed to disable it until they can fix it. So that should be happening soon.

I will update them with the Edge strict settings, thanks for the updates!

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Thank you.  I've seen other sites insist I'm using an ad blocker and its irritating.

[Steven P. Administrators]

  On 26/01/2023 at 17:06, chaos mage said:

Thank you.  I've seen other sites insist I'm using an ad blocker and its irritating.

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Err you shouldn't be getting anything at all, you're a ad-free subscriber. We remove all the ad codes for users in that group.

Unless you are browsing while logged out?

[Steven P. Administrators]

My contact told me it is now disabled for Edge browser users.