Comments on: Ad Blockers can Ruin Your Legitimate Web App that Isn’t Even Serving Ads http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/11/21/ad-blockers-can-ruin-your-legitimate-web-app-that-isnt-even-serving-ads/ It's Just Links Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:47:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Brian http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/11/21/ad-blockers-can-ruin-your-legitimate-web-app-that-isnt-even-serving-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-44472 Brian Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:35:44 +0000 http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/11/21/ad-blockers-can-ruin-your-legitimate-web-app-that-isnt-even-serving-ads/#comment-44472 On my site, I always name my add/banner directories something other than ad and banners so that they won't get auto-blocked. good to know about the urls too though. On my site, I always name my add/banner directories something other than ad and banners so that they won’t get auto-blocked. good to know about the urls too though.

]]> By: Jeff Harrell http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/11/21/ad-blockers-can-ruin-your-legitimate-web-app-that-isnt-even-serving-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-41775 Jeff Harrell Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:19:37 +0000 http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/11/21/ad-blockers-can-ruin-your-legitimate-web-app-that-isnt-even-serving-ads/#comment-41775 I've got what I think is an even better tale of woe. A few weeks back, I wrote a blog post the headline of which included the phrase "and a bottle of Vicodin." When I hit "publish," my content-management system went completely apeshit. Requests for that page were being blocked at the Web server — not at the browser, not at the CMS, but at the Web server itself. It took some figuring it out (and a lot of my yelling like a lunatic at a faceless computer screen), but eventually I changed the URL of the page to read "and-a-bottle-of-medicine" instead, while letting the headline stay. Problem solved. Well, not so much "solved" as "run away from as fast as possible, hoping against hope that I never run into this situation again." I’ve got what I think is an even better tale of woe. A few weeks back, I wrote a blog post the headline of which included the phrase “and a bottle of Vicodin.” When I hit “publish,” my content-management system went completely apeshit. Requests for that page were being blocked at the Web server — not at the browser, not at the CMS, but at the Web server itself.

It took some figuring it out (and a lot of my yelling like a lunatic at a faceless computer screen), but eventually I changed the URL of the page to read “and-a-bottle-of-medicine” instead, while letting the headline stay. Problem solved.

Well, not so much “solved” as “run away from as fast as possible, hoping against hope that I never run into this situation again.”

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