Code push complete

[denise]

Tonight's code push is complete! Please report issues here. Again, if you try to post and get a message that you need to confirm your email address first, please see How do I confirm my email address? for instructions on how to confirm your email address and fix the problem.

Comments

[calliopes_pen]

Since the code push, Adguard has decided it doesn't like you as much, based on what I can tell. Each time I try to open anything on Dreamwidth (not my own journal, it's fine with that) in a new tab, the Adguard browser extension (in Firefox) blocks it.

Example of the message:
"Access Denied. This web page at dw-news.dreamwidth.org has been reported as a malware page and has been blocked based on your security preferences."

Clicking on More Information provides me with this page. Not sure how you got blacklisted. Clicking on Advanced instead, I can still proceed to the page, at least.

(Just thought I'd let you know.)

[denise]

Thanks! One of our volunteers reported that as well. We've never heard of Adguard and we can't tell what criteria they're using or whether they take into account the fact that we're a UGC site -- they seem to have blocked every single one of our subdomains for absolutely no reason. I would suggest reporting it to them as a false positive.

[zombieproof]

happened to me also, I just switched to Ad Blocker (which I had thought was what I was using, I have no idea where Adguard came from) and it immediately resolved. I reported it as a false positive before I switched, but considering dw is my most-visited site I couldn't tolerate that XD

[calliopes_pen]

I reported it yesterday evening, and received a prompt reply! They thanked me for bringing it to their attention, and it should all be taken care of now.

This morning, it seemed to still have all the subdomains blocked despite their fix. I finally had the idea to turn off the phishing and malware protection feature, and then turned it back on again. And with that, it is fixed for me (and hopefully, for others).

[denise]

Thanks for the info! They probably don't have us down in their system as being a UGC site, caught one of our perpetual spammers in the window before we suspended them, and blocklisted us instead of actually, you know, reporting the content to us and seeing whether or not we take action on harmful UGC before assuming that we wouldn't and leaping straight to adding us to the blocklist. It's a pretty common pattern for services like this to block small UGC sites instead of seeing whether or not they're responsive to reports of malicious content and actually act to remove them or not, and it's really annoying (as a small UGC site that is highly responsive to issues of malicious content) when we have to tell people that we have no control over whether or not we're added to lists like that, all we can do is what we do (namely, stay as on top of malicious content posted to the site as we humanly can).