Gravity Forms

[jayarr]

Hi there,

It was brought to my attention today that the Fanboy's Annoyance list is completely blocking embedded forms powered by the Gravity Forms WordPress plugin.

The specific site where this was observed is https://www.androidintel.net/, within the green box in the center of the screen (among other places), but I'd imagine the same sort of thing is happening in lots of other places as well. GF is a pretty popular plugin that's used for legitimate purposes, and as far as I'm aware, it doesn't even natively support auto-pop-ups or any other such annoyances.

Thank you!

[intense]

It's about

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##.newsletter-signup:not(html):not(body)

[fanboy]

Seems fine to block to be honest, its a newsletter block

[archon810]

The whole site's purpose is the newsletter though. This doesn't make much sense to block.

[jayarr]

The whole site's purpose is the newsletter though. This doesn't make much sense to block.

Right — it's a legitimate and reputable editorial newsletter, and people are coming to the site on their own with the explicit purpose of wanting to sign up.

No pop-ups and nothing at all invasive or unwanted going on. Having the form blocked just strips the core functionality and makes the site confusingly broken for anyone visiting.