Uassets: Acronis.com - Weird anti-adblock issue

Created on 18 Jan 2019 · 13Comments · Source: uBlockOrigin/uAssets

Affected site:

https://www.acronis.com/

Issue:

The site seems to use some type of anti-adblock mechanism, which prevents certain elements from loading.

Example:

https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/contact-us/

Screenshot:

filterissue-acronis

Possible fix:

@@||acronis.com^$generichide

Other fixes (annoyances) of possible interest (UNRELATED):

acronis.com##.cookies-notification
acronis.com##.social
acronis.com##.social-icons-sticky
acronis.com###back-to-top
acronis.com###backtotop

OS/version: Windows 8.1 Pro (x64)
Browser/version: Pale Moon v28.3.0 (x64)
Adblock Extension/version: uBlock Origin v1.16.4.6 (XUL)

unable to reproduce

Source

THEtomaso

All 13 comments

I can't reproduce, with a default setup + adding
acronis.com##.cookies-notification acronis.com##.social acronis.com##.social-icons-sticky acronis.com###back-to-top acronis.com###backtotop

okiehsch on 18 Jan 2019

I gave it a try with 'SRWare Iron', and I couldn't reproduce either.
Seems like either Chromium browsers, or the WebExtensions version of uBlock Origin, is unaffected by this particular issue.

To reproduce, use Pale Moon + uBO Legacy.
You'll find portable builds of Pale Moon here (scroll down a bit):
http://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml

BTW; the rules that I posted under "Other fixes" are completely unrelated.
Those are just some unattended annoyances that I discovered when browsing the site.
I thought perhaps someone would be interested in adding them to their annoyances filter(s).
Sorry for the confusion.

THEtomaso on 18 Jan 2019

tested same versions Pale Moon + uBO Legacy (default setup), no issue here, closing.

mapx- on 18 Jan 2019

@mapx- + @okiehsch :

I've run further tests now, and after some messing around, I finally found the culprit..

The issue is caused by the following rule (found in the 'I don't care about cookies' filter):
###cookie:not(body):not(html):not([href*="cookieclicker"])

The reason why I didn't notice it before, is that this rule does NOT show up in uBO's logger, when using the Legacy version!
It's not the first time that I've encountered this problem.
Here's another example:
https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/issues/7/#issuecomment-421023471

Guess there's a bug in the Legacy version that needs to be addressed?

Also, why does @@||acronis.com^$generichide fix the problem?
Is it really ment to cancel out those type of cosmetic rules?

THEtomaso on 19 Jan 2019

###cookie:not(body):not(html):not([href*="cookieclicker"]) is a generic filter => $generichide will "kill" it

mapx- on 19 Jan 2019

👍1

If I add
##cookie:not(body):not(html):not([href*="cookieclicker"])
the site is broken using Chromiuim/Chrome, so this is not a bug in the Legacy version.

okiehsch on 19 Jan 2019

I'm talking about the fact that the rule doesn't show up in the Legacy version's logger.

THEtomaso on 19 Jan 2019

Sorry, I missed that part in your comment.
You can ask gorhill if he thinks that should be fixed in the legacy version, or hope that somebody using Pale Moon investigates and opens a pull request.

okiehsch on 19 Jan 2019

Report posted:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/385/

THEtomaso on 19 Jan 2019

I've already mailed him a report.

THEtomaso on 19 Jan 2019

🚀1

Thank you, the related rule will be removed from IDCAC in the next version.