Site blocking at fark.com

[WebWombat]

On opening www.fark.com/ this morning I got a largely blank web page even though I had "allow far.com" set. The top of has a bar with the message "Fark feeds our squirrel with revenue from ads, please whitelist us in adblock/noscript/your-ad-blocker-of-choice! (Read more) Or please consider joining TotalFark". So, it looks they have workedout how to do an "all or nothing" whereby your whitelist the site totally including all third party ads or content regardless of who they are or where they come with. You can't see the thrid party scripts ans decide on a one by one basis which you trust (temporarrily or permanently). Is there anything that can be done to work around this?

[Tom T.]

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www.fark.com

this morning I got a largely blank web page even though I had "allow far.com" set.

I assume that's a typo for "fark.com"?

The top of has a bar with the message "Fark feeds our squirrel with revenue from ads, please whitelist us in adblock/noscript/your-ad-blocker-of-choice! (Read more) Or please consider joining TotalFark". So, it looks they have workedout how to do an "all or nothing" whereby your whitelist the site totally including all third party ads or content regardless of who they are or where they come with. You can't see the thrid party scripts ans decide on a one by one basis which you trust (temporarrily or permanently). Is there anything that can be done to work around this?

With *nothing* allowed or temp-allowed, I got a fairly full page, although there was the common message

Turn on javascript (or enable it for Fark) for a better user experience.

I did then TA fark, and saw your squirrel message. Still no ads, thanks to not whitelisting the third parties, and not allowing requests in RequestPolicy, an add-on you might like to look at.

So I would suspect adblock+. Try disabling that, or whitelisting fark in it. If the page works, then you can ask this question at ABP forum.
Another common culprit is Ghostery.

By the way, between NS and RequestPolicy, I almost never see ads despite not using ABP.