Based on -tech IRC discussion, I'm summing this up @
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/20190404-Adblock-issue given WikiTech
is currently Account creation locked.
On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 21:17, RhinosF1 Wikipedia wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Thanks for the Clarification, From what I know, the issue wa
Hi Nick,
Thanks for the Clarification, From what I know, the issue was present for
about 10 hours. I'm not sure how widespread the impact was page wise. Is it
worth summarising what happened anywhere else?
Thanks,
RhinosF1
On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 21:15, Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
wrote:
> Hi RhinosF
Hi RhinosF1,
It was only a single webpage that was reported as being blocked by the
browser extension (although there were presumably other pages and wikis
affected that went unreported in the past), thus it is probably not of
great concern to our thousands of contributors who read the short Tech N
Hi,
Thanks to Nick for the PR.
As far as I understand, Easy list is some sort of ad blocking system that
multiple ad blockers use.
From what I can see, Wiktionary got caught up in a block on URLs ending in
/ads and /advert making some pages blank. It's best to read the Tech IRC
log from 4pm onwar
Easy List seems to be one of the component in various adblocker tools
(possibly enabled by default in some or all of them?). https://easylist.to/
E.g. the "uBlock Origin" extension's settings panel which lists it,
apparently enabled by default:
https://i.postimg.cc/yN217Tg5/Selection-001.jpg
I've s
On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 16:08 +0100, RhinosF1 Wikipedia wrote:
> Could someone please see if WMF wikis could be whitelisted as a follow up
> to
> https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/3188?
What does that mean? Whitelisting what exactly? Where? Please include
sufficient context to allow folks
Hi,
Could someone please see if WMF wikis could be whitelisted as a follow up
to
https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/3188?
Despite the short term distruption, Could it be placed on Tech News as
users were noticing that some pages were blocked?
Thanks,
RhinosF1
