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Adblock and Amazon Modules

Screen shot 2012-11-14 at 8.16.18 AMWe’re aware that some of you have been experiencing problems with Adblock and your Amazon Modules. Our engineers are hard at work trying to figure out this issue but we need your help.

If you are unable to see an Amazon Module on a lens due to Adblock please file a bug report with: the URL of the lens,  the specific module that’s being affected, a screenshot of what you’re seeing, the browser you’re using and the version of Adblock that you’re using. Basically we need as much information as possible.

Thanks for your support while we work on this problem.

Bonnie Diczhazy (bdkz) is Editor of the SquidooHQ Blog and Head of Community here at Squidoo.com.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/LadyDuck LadyDuck

    For now I did not experience any problem. If I get something wrong I will immediately report to you. Thanks.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/MissMerFaery MissMerFaery

    I don’t use Chrome so can’t help, but hope that you manage to figure out the problem asap! :) Thanks for letting us know HQ are working on it Bonnie.

    • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Flynn_the_Cat Flynn_the_Cat

      It’s not just Chrome – AdBlock was originally a Firefox add on.

      • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/MissMerFaery MissMerFaery

        Ah okay – I use Firefox but don’t have AdBlock, so still no help! :)

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/tembrooke tembrooke

    Thanks so much for letting us know that you’re on it! I don’t use Adblock but I’ve read about the problem in some forum threads and it’s definitely worrying. From what I remember, it’s Chrome users that are being affected.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/campingman campingman

    It doesn’t seem like anyone at Squidoo is listening right now anyway, so I will just watch from the wings.

    • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/kab kab

      They are asking for input. The are actively listening.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/SerraBlogs SerraBlogs

    The problem isn’t specific to Squidoo, there are posts in the Amazon Associates Forum.

    http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=am-associhelp&msg=42303.1&ctx=0

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/StephenJParkin StephenJParkin

    I do not use Adblock so I am unable to help. Hope you get it resolved soon.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/WhiteIsland88 WhiteIsland88

    I use Chrome + Adblock, and my Amazon modules recently disappeared (so I was happy to see this – I freaked out, at first, thinking they’d been deleted, but my husband figured out that they must have been filtered by my ad blocker). I’ve submitted a bug report, per the request, with as much information as I could, but I did not see a way to attach a screenshot…?

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Morgannafay Morgannafay

    I’m experiencing the same issue with firefox’s addblock now. Not in the beginning when the woes started with chrome, but now I am. It’s as if those modules don’t exist. I’ll do another check to see if anything has changed. Note, this is with every lens that I have with an amazon module on it. The ebay and etsy modules show just fine. I’ll send you a report but, I don’t know if you want to sift through every lens that I have with an amazon on it.

    For the record, so far I’ve only used the amazon side widget, and the amazon spotlight. But, on other peoples lenses I can’t see any of their amazons either.

    Again, I don’t use chrome folks, I’m on an updated version of firefox.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/renagirl renagirl

    I could not add amazon module to my new lens yesterday i use firefox

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/toshia toshia

    i use Google and i have been having probs with amazon module i can’t add to my lenses and on lenses that i have already made i cant see the amazon modules.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Tipi Tipi

    I don;t use Adblock and would disable it if I did.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/DaveStone13 DaveStone13

    I don’t use Adblock and everything is working great for me. Maybe, you should all turn off Adblock until it’s fixed. Sounds more like an Adblock than a Squidoo problem to me.

    • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/lakeerieartists lakeerieartists

      The problem isn’t so much what we see although that is a problem. The problem is that our readers with adblock won’t see the entire lens.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/simoza01 simoza01

    Any latest development on this ?

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Deborah-Diane Deborah-Diane

    I use Firefox as my browser, and I haven’t noticed any problems with Adsense modules. However … I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I don’t become affected, too!

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/bestwebfinds bestwebfinds

    I am using Chrome. I disabled the Adblock and all modules are back.

    • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/campingman campingman

      It looks like the ‘Squids’ have found a way around the problem for Squidoo. Uuuh Rah

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/jeffryv jeffryv
    • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/MartArt4You MartArt4You

      Good.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/WriterJanis WriterJanis

    I sent in bug reports a week ago. I’ve never heard anything back. Sigh…………

    • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/campingman campingman

      Welcome to the club

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/lakeerieartists lakeerieartists

    Glad to see that you are looking into this problem.

  • http://squidutils.com/ thefluffanutta

    Gil, et al: AdBlock Plus is specifically targeting the CSS class named “amazon_spotlight”, which is used by every Amazon module. Change the name of your class to something else, and then it won’t be blocked.

    I would also suggest making the Sidebar modules use a different class name, as this is probably the ‘ads’ which triggered them to be blocked in the first place.

    thefluffanutta

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/manlalakbay manlalakbay

    Oh I haven’t encountered it yet. The bug I encounter is the watching of youtube videos here made my lens landed to welcome page and stated an error.. I think I already filed that error to Squidoo and still waiting for their feedback. Anyway, I hope this bug would be fixed as soon as possible.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/MartArt4You MartArt4You

    Or alternately people could stop using adblock. I have no sympathy with anyone who has problems due to intentionally using something which is killing websites.

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