429608 - Adblocker: navigation menus of Spiegel Online are blocked

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Annoyance Blocking, defect)

Description

[CFV]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; de; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080409 Camino/1.6 (MultiLang) (like Firefox/2.0.0.14)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; de; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080409 Camino/1.6 (MultiLang) (like Firefox/2.0.0.14)

See summary. Spiegel Online is one of Germany's most important news sites.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn on adblocking
2. Visit www.spiegel.de

Actual Results:  
Top Menu is blocked

Expected Results:  
Show menus, still hide ads

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This seems to work OK for me; can you be more specific about the problem (or attach a screenshot)?

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

Yeah, I see that as well, but only with branch; trunk builds work. There is some background-flash ad at top and right. When blocked, it turns into a black rectangle.

Comment 3

[philippe (part-time)]

Got it with trunk builds as well.
The top ad I see is loaded into an absolute positioned div [1] with black background. That div is injected with javascript, then filled with flash stuff.
But that div is not blocker

There is also a webbug -inline img-, sized to the same height as that ad-div. The webbug is used to push the masthead down, and makes space for the ad at the top. The webbug is also blocked by ad-blocking.css (and doesn't push the masthead down). Thus, the mashead is covered.

All this courtesy of adserv.quality-channel.de


[1] <div id="flashlayer" style="padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; z-index: 1; height: 110px; width: 796px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">

Comment 4

[CFV]

philippe describes very well what I see. I just realized that it seems to be covered, not blocked, too, when I tried it again and the menu was visible for a fraction of a second. I can't technically describe what happens there, hopefully that's okay!

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

philippe sees this, so NEW.  From the description I'm not sure what we can do, but we need to try to do something.

Comment 6

[Tobias Stohr]

Attachment: Screenshots showing the problem

The attached screenshots show the described problem.
If you disable JavaScript the site displays just perfect.
Blocking scripting for adserv.quality-channel.de didn't work for me.

This ad seems to be very new, as I visit this site on a daily basis. Unfortunately spiegel.de is one of the German bookmarks in the news section. If we can't fix this, we should consider removing it in a future release of Camino or the ML build.

Comment 7

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Ah, I was looking for the wrong menu ;)

Blocking 

div[id="spColumnAd"]

seems to fix it for me.

Comment 8

[Tobias Stohr]

Works for me, too.

Comment 9

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

FIXED on trunk by checkin of bug 421850.