I deeply enjoy using AdBlock. I can’t stand all the blinking and distracting ads around the information I want or need to grasp.
Once in a while I have to face a phenomenon caused by one of the rules in one of the filtering lists used by AdBlock. And I can’t tell which one, because I am not able to track that down.
I am running a few WordPress blogs, and with their administrational interface I recently ran into trouble: some buttons did not work as they should. (The social network “sharing” buttons – you should be able to drag them to another panel, but that does not work … .) The Jetpack / WordPress guys sorted this problem for me, and the solution was to tell AdBlock to exempt these pages from AdBlocking. (There aren’t any ads on these pages anyway.) I started with:
- “Don’t run on pages on this domain“
and I moved the sliders a little, so that not the entire domain gets exempted. I asked the Jetpack / WordPress guys to help me find the filtering rule in question, but they sort of refused that – and I can understand that. They suggested sharing my experience in a WordPress online forum.