• ikidd@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      So this is part of a larger adblock checker, if the ad doesn’t load within 5 seconds, it fails and triggers the adblocker warning. Since the ad should load in 3, they’ve set it for 5. If you have ubo, you won’t see the warning that it then wants to pop up, it just seems (and is) a 5 second delay. Changing the UA probably removes this from Firefox because then the clientside scripts will attempt to use builtin Chrome functions that wouldn’t need this hacky script to detect the adblock. Since they don’t exist, it just carries on.

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        1 year ago

        I was wondering how badly out of context the above quote must be considering the UA isn’t checked in the function. Above poster is trying to construe it as a pure and simple permanent delay for Firefox.

        That being said, the solution is still bullshit.

        • Adalast@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          That is just the timeout function, not the call stack. It is likely called in a function that uses a UA check.

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        1 year ago

        The thing that gets me is they think no one will ever find this stuff. There are hundreds of thousands of people (maybe more) who are actively looking ways to block ads and get around this behavior. There’s no way it’ll ever go unnoticed.

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          1 year ago

          They could literally have used some variance in implementation, server side bandwidth limitations, etc, but THIS is just blatantly obvious

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            1 year ago

            I believe that Google is just trolling people real hard. There are much better ways to disable any adblocks, but they are not even trying.