Webannoyances: nytimes.com

[rd-su]

URL(s) where the issue occurs

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/23/world/coronavirus-great-empty.html

Describe the issue

It just appear the image of Paris city. If you scroll down the images about the other cities didn't load.

Screenshot(s)

Versions

• Vivaldi 2.11.1811.49 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
• uBlock Origin 1.24.4

Settings

• default settings

Notes

I found that this rule block those images:
nytimes.com##html:style(overflow-x: hidden !important; overflow-y: auto !important; padding-right: 0 !important;)

from "Web Annoyances Ultralist - Modal Overlay Filters"

[yourduskquibbles]

@rdsu-pt Thanks for reporting, I think this was behaviour described is being caused by commit https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances/commit/93b4976988f368f4b6284e97c568a5b310a9a9dd which I have reverted.

Do you mind updating filters and letting me know if you still have issue? I removed the position: relative being set on ##.interactive-masthead and think that this fixes the issue you described.

[rd-su]

I forgot to mention that I only use:
Web Annoyances Ultralist - Ad Placeholder Filters​​​​​
Web Annoyances Ultralist - Modal Overlay Filters​​​​​
Web Annoyances Ultralist - Newsletter Subscription Filters

I still saw this in the logs:

When I disable this list, it works fine.

Thanks for your support!

[yourduskquibbles]

OK let me test with that setup and see what I can come up with. I'd like keep that filter in the modal list as I know that there are modal popups on nytimes.com that will take away the scroll behaviour but I may be able to find a better series of selectors or exclude this type of page from the html filter.

[yourduskquibbles]

I will deploy this filter nytimes.com##html:not(.nytapp-vi-interactive):style(overflow-x: hidden !important; overflow-y: auto !important; padding-right: 0 !important;) now to modal list which should solve your problem.

I will also personally test this filter for a few days and try to trigger a modal popup on one of their pages to verify users won't lose their scroll bar on other pages with no way to get it back with this filter.

[rd-su]

It's working now. Thanks!

[yourduskquibbles]

I've added some additional filters to the modal list in commit https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances/commit/3793b190f23bf7654bc6087afb172fb288223942 that should allow reading of coronavirus related articles without being forced to login. (This may help on other types of articles but I won't fully know until this madness is over with... and nytimes.com is back to their normal site behaviour) From my testing, this should help when not using other extensions such as bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean or bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean.

@rdsu-pt do you mind continued testing and letting me know if this is breaking anything for you with just your filter list subscriptions?

Some example tested links that this should remove various footer bars / login prompts and scroll jacking/overlays from:

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/world/asia/afghanistan-iran-coronavirus.html
2. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-by-country.html
3. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/smarter-living/virus-remaking-space-while-homebound.html
4. https://www.nytimes.com/programs/productivity-challenge
5. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/smarter-living/why-mundane-moments-matter.html

Cross-posting from: https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances/issues/146#issuecomment-604424366

[rd-su]

It seems good, I just have this footer bar:

[yourduskquibbles]

What article link are you seeing that on? Would like to remove that too if possible

[rd-su]

All of them, except here:
https://www.nytimes.com/programs/productivity-challenge

[yourduskquibbles]

Are you able to purge your filter list cache and update your modal filter list under Filter Lists section of uBO? i think these might be ones I've already fixed with previous commit https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances/commit/3793b190f23bf7654bc6087afb172fb288223942 but guessing you may not have the most up to date version of the list loaded.

To verify you have latest list, you can click on the modal list subscription from filter lists tab which will open up the raw list that is loaded by UBO in new browser tab and verify your last modified time on second line is showing as ! Last Modified: 10:24 2020-03-26?

Screenshots below:

[rd-su]

Works fine after update the filter list! :)

[yourduskquibbles]

Thanks for confirming!