Macrumors.com: whitespace is left

Gigabit · February 3, 2021, 9:26am

Description of the issue:

White space is left where the ad was.

Exact URL of the website in question:

Screenshot of the ad as it appears in Brave

(There is whitespace between the content at the top and the “Guides” section - on the right-hand side.)

Did the issue present with default Shields settings? (yes/no)

Yes

Does the site function as expected when Shields are turned off?

Yes

Is there a specific Shields configuration that causes the site to break? If so, tell us that configuration. (yes/no):

No

Does the site work as expected when using Chrome?

Yes

Brave version (check About Brave):

Version 1.19.88 Chromium: 88.0.4324.96 (Official Build) (arm64)

fanboynz · February 3, 2021, 9:59am

Fixed. Give it 24-48hrs.

Gigabit · February 5, 2021, 6:33pm

Hi @fanboynz,

Similar issue on their forums, https://forums.macrumors.com:

Mattches · February 5, 2021, 6:45pm

cc @fanboynz plz and thank you

fanboynz · February 5, 2021, 9:35pm

Give it 24-48hrs. Enable aggressive mode also.

Gigabit · February 9, 2021, 3:28pm

@fanboynz It has not applied on my side, is there a reason I need to use the aggressive mode for this?

fanboynz · February 10, 2021, 1:11am

Looking good here, just opened https://forums.macrumors.com/ and I don’t see the blank space. Aggressive mode will apply more cosmetics.

Gigabit · February 10, 2021, 10:02am

But I didn’t need to apply it to hide the space on the main site, so why does it need to be enabled to hide the space on the forums?

fanboynz · February 10, 2021, 10:39am

It applys to the entire site, www and forums

https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/gif/macrumors.gif(image larger than 4096KB)

No blank spaces (caused by ads) Only blank spaces will be seen when disabling shields now

Gigabit · February 10, 2021, 2:56pm

With Standard mode on, I don’t see any spaces on the main macrumors site:

But I still see spaces on the forums:

I’m just trying to understand the discrepancy?

markupived · February 11, 2021, 3:11pm

I also have the same problem but on iOS and not only on macrumors but also on 9to5mac

fanboynz · February 10, 2021, 11:59pm

In Ios, we have no cosmetic hiding. So blank spaces will remain

Gigabit · February 11, 2021, 2:01pm

Sadly the spaces are still visible on my side @fanboynz

Gigabit · February 15, 2021, 1:11pm

@fanboynz is there any update? I am still seeing the whitespace on the forums, the main site is looking okay.

fanboynz · February 15, 2021, 10:39pm

Re-tested in Brave release and Beta, Ad/Trackers = Aggressive. No white space on forums here.

Gigabit · February 16, 2021, 9:18am

@fanboynz Why do I need to use aggressive to hide the whitespace on the forums but not on the main site? Are you able to explain this as it seems like a bug to me?

fanboynz · February 16, 2021, 12:08pm

It was a different filter, a site specific/1st party filter, which is why we have Aggressive mode to get around this.

Gigabit · February 16, 2021, 6:41pm

So you can’t just add the same filter you added for the main site, for the forums and then we don’t need to use aggressive mode?