{"id":868,"date":"2017-08-25T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/?p=868"},"modified":"2020-03-03T22:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:02:41","slug":"ad-blocker-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/2017\/08\/25\/ad-blocker-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad-Blocker Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ad-blocking software&nbsp;<em>uBlock Origin<\/em>&nbsp;was recently installed on all of our staff workstations. It\u2019s come to our attention that this may randomly (though probably infrequently) block access to some of our licensed resources. In a recent incident, a link to a&nbsp;<em>ScienceDirect<\/em>&nbsp;article retrieved in an EDS search was resolving to a blank screen through the&nbsp;<em>GetIt<\/em>&nbsp;link because there was something in Elsevier&#8217;s code that caused it to be blocked by this software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently this type of thing may happen with any ad-blocking software or publisher platform, and you just need to be aware that, whenever you come across a blank screen, you should always check the&nbsp;<em>uBlock<\/em>&nbsp;icon in the top right corner of your browser window to see if there\u2019s an alert for the page that will allow you to unblock it.&nbsp;<em>uBlock<\/em>&nbsp;is not currently installed on any of our public workstations, however the use of this type of software is becoming more common so it&#8217;s possible that our users may occasionally experience related issues on their home computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ad-blocking software&nbsp;uBlock Origin&nbsp;was recently installed on all of our staff workstations. It\u2019s come to our attention that this may randomly (though probably infrequently) block access to some of our licensed resources. In a recent incident, a link to a&nbsp;ScienceDirect&nbsp;article retrieved in an EDS search was resolving to a blank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}