Popups Blocked

  • Resolved streamworksaudio

    (@streamworksaudio)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    Are the popups actually just CSS windows (lightboxes)? If so, shouldn’t they not be subjected to popup blockers?

    An associated noticed that when he had AdBlock Plus extension installed he could not open any of the popups (which are triggered by a click).

    I installed the extension and can confirm that with the Fanboy’s Annoyance List enabled, non of my popups worked.

    Obviously somebody submitted my site to be included in the list, but I was under the impression that as the popups were not truly ‘popup windows’ and that they were just CSS lightboxes, that these popup blockers should not affect them.

    Anyway to avoid the blockers from preventing the popups from launching?

    Cheers

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  • Plugin Author Daniel Iser

    (@danieliser)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    @streamworksaudio – You are correct. I have not heard of PM popups being blocked yet though. I will install it and see what I can come up with.

    Adblock can work though by removing elements on the page with certain css classes & ids. That may be the case.

    Thread Starter streamworksaudio

    (@streamworksaudio)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks Daniel,

    I hope you and yours are safe and sound after the storm.

    The default lists installed with AdBlock do not stop the popups, but the Fanboy’s Annoyance List seems to be blocking the plugin based on the URL – so changing the class names I don’t think will work.

    https://easylist.to/easylist/fanboy-annoyance.txt

    You can see ‘/plugins/popup-maker/’ is in the list.

    If you install the extension then add the Fanboy’s Annoyance List then visit:

    https://streamworksaudio.com/swa-masterclass-cubase-8-5/

    Under ‘Episodes’ there are some images with a play button. Clicking on them should open a popup. But with the Fanboy’s Annoyance List, the lists block the popup from opening.

    Cheers

    waltmesser

    (@waltmesser)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    @streamworksaudio

    Not sure if there’s anything we can do about that, but I’ll have @danieliser take a look as soon as he is available.

    Plugin Author Daniel Iser

    (@danieliser)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    @streamworksaudio – Agree with @waltmesser. Based on the rule they list there though it should only be applying that to one domain specifically. Not sure what that is about, but seems that rule is applied globally instead.

    The only thing you could do is change the folder name for popup-maker so that our JS scripts don’t match their rule any more.

    Another possible option for you to do is to copy our site.min.js file to your theme folder and wp_deregister_script ours and reregister it from your themes copy. Basically anything you can do so that the scripts are not loaded from the exact folder /plugins/popup-maker/

    We can’t do that from our end though since it would break 60k + installs.

    Hope that helps.

    Thread Starter streamworksaudio

    (@streamworksaudio)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Yeah I was thinking that you guys wouldn’t be able to really do anything. I was more curious as to if this was something that you guys have heard about before.

    I agree that the rule should be only to the tracktion.com domain (which is really weird as Tracktion is a client of ours).

    It is kinda sad that somebody can simply add a rule to a list and bam, the site does not work anymore. I have contacted the list author by email, but I have not heard back.

    I think the best way to fix this would be, as you mention, to de-register the script and re-register it from a diff URL (from one of our CDN address).

    Cheers

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