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A lot of sites are broken with ad blockers. It's usually even not because of ads. It's because of tracking JS, which gets called from everywhere (because we nee
by smsm42 4y ago
A lot of sites are broken with ad blockers. It's usually even not because of ads. It's because of tracking JS, which gets called from everywhere (because we need metrics to track user behavior!) but the code around it assumes metrics never fail, so when metrics script gets cut by adblocker, everything fails. It could be pretty easy to avoid this, but nobody approves a budget to refactor the site to work with adblockers, and I am pretty sure nobody tests with adblockers. Also, as a bonus, if you break adblockers, people would disable them and give us our metrics we need to run A/B tests and generate nice reports, so it's a win-win, isn't it?
- tracker1 4y agoYeah... most large companies definitely need more testers running common adblockers like ublock or pihole with the default list. Of course, worse still is the clear misses on WCAG for visibly impaired... or people like me who max out text and content size on their phones... really pisses me off to no end when a modal + buttons are off screen with no ability to zoom or scroll the modal dialog. First two things I check when trying a new ui framework, is how does that modal interaction work, and what does the calendar/time interface look like.