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Post by **eighty5cacao** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:52 pm

The filter

/cdn-cgi/pe/bag2?*google-analytics.com

blocks scripts on Orain wikis such as

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https://allthetropes.orain.org/cdn-cgi/pe/bag2?r[]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google-analytics.com%2Fanalytics.js

It appears that some other script does not correctly handle the error that results from the blocking of the above, causing other JavaScript-based features to fail, such as the search suggestions that normally appear when typing in the search box.

The example above was found on https://allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/For ... ug_Reports (also notice on that page that the formatting of the forum threads is messed up)

This also affects other Orain subdomains e.g. https://meta.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page. (In each case, the blocked URL comes from the same domain as the page itself, so here it has "meta" in place of "allthetropes")

(I haven't been here for a while, so I don't know whether policy prefers a domain exception or a whitelist for this case.)

Post by **fanboy** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 1:54 am

Fix: https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/12b82f982bce
More trackers: https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/84e65253fca9

Do test, hopefully it won't break anything..

Post by **eighty5cacao** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 4:18 am

Everything seems okay now with Orain wikis (it doesn't look like any of the "more trackers" are applicable there, unless I missed something...)

Post by **eighty5cacao** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 6:58 pm

Actually no, it's not okay anymore - the Google Analytics script was replaced with a Piwik version (URL and filter respectively):

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https://allthetropes.orain.org/cdn-cgi/pe/bag2?r[]=https%3A%2F%2Fpiwik.orain.org%2Fpiwik.js

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/cdn-cgi/pe/bag2?*piwik.js

which also needs to be whitelisted to avoid the same symptoms as I originally mentioned.

Post by **eighty5cacao** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 4:00 am

(sorry, the editing period expired on my previous post...?)

It looks like "piwik" mentioned above might not always be used, but the "geoiplookup" version of the cdn-cgi filter (e.g. [url]https://allthetropes.orain.org/cdn-cgi/pe/bag2?r[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbits.wikimedia.org%2Fgeoiplookup[/url] ) is also causing the issue.

Yeah, so basically I was wrong about the added filters not applying.

Post by **eighty5cacao** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 5:56 pm

This is still an issue, as described in the above post. What additional evidence, if any, do I need to provide to get the appropriate whitelist filters added?

For what it's worth, the script that loads these tracking scrips appears to be supplied by the CloudFlare CDN, and unlike most other scripts, it cannot be edited by Orain administrators to handle errors more gracefully.

(P.S. The incorrect parsing of the above post appears to be caused by the brackets in the URL.)

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