What's up with this new internet thingy?

Ghostery has a pause blocking button.

http://i.imgur.com/SRTzokh.png

Try that and see if it helps.

Ghostery does break some sites. But I just tried and don’t get the login thing. However the video won’t play on weather.com. But I have a ton of privacy stuff installed so it is hard to figure what is blocking something.

If you are using Firefox I suggest installing this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/open-with/

It makes it so you can right click on a link and open the link in a different browser. http://i.imgur.com/VKaEAYg.png

I just open problematic things in Chrome. Or you can just whitelist the site in ghostery so it doesn’t block anything on that site. You lose some privacy but it is better than nothing.

Thanks. I use Chrome. Will try the other suggestions.

Pause blocking took care of it on both sites. Thanks Ryan!

That is really weird and I can’t reproduce it but Ghostery being at fault wouldn’t shock me.

I would suggest using the whitelist option over pausing. Pausing turns it off on all sites while whitelisting turns it off for the site you are on. For the most part you won’t notice Ghostery. It breaks about 2% of the sites I visit. And it is worth it for a minor inconvenience. Facebook doesn’t need to know about my lube shopping.

And what I do is play with the sliders on the list of tracking crap and reload the page until the site works. This is incredibly tedious but I really hate facebook and twitter that much.

Yeah – moi aussi. I clicked on a link to a lounge chair that someone was asking about on Fluther and next time I went to FB an ad for it popped up!

It gets even worse. I barely use facebook. I actually just got a account there about 18 months ago. I only have five friends on it. Scary part is it suggested people when I signed up and it was 90% accurate. I knew most of the people it suggested. Even people from Fluther.

Turns out that when people on their mobile phone sign up for Facebook with their app it scrapes their contacts. So if I was a contact on their phone facebook got my name and email and phone number. I basically had a account without ever signing up. Once they had my email they tied it all together. No fucking clue how they knew people I was friends with here. Maybe they had searched for me and they remembered it.

Oh yeah – forget privacy.

It sounds like some of the tracking cookies that Ghostery is “protecting” you from are responsible for logging you into sites that you want to be logged into. I have no experience with Ghostery, but I’d look at the settings to see if you can add exceptions.

@dappled_leaves Yes, that was the problem and @johnpowell showed me how to pause the blocking on a site.

In Australia, that’s just ’‘situation normal’ for our dodgy internet availability. Yet again, I couldn’t even stream the freaking news this morning. However, the new fraudband being touted by the Coalition government will resolve all our internet issues and we’ll have speedy access comparable to any available in other countries (in 1999).

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