Unable to order stuff at the USPS store...

[TsunamiZ]

https://store.usps.com/store/product/shipping-supplies/priority-mail-shipping-label-106-P_LABEL_106

Unable to order stuff at the USPS store. Example link above. The "add to cart" button doesn't show on the right side. As a workaround, we have to use a different browser. Please fix.

[bug reported VB-60120]

[Pathduck]

Did you try turning off your ad-blocker?

[Ornorm]

@Pathduck Tested with uBlock Origin :
On :

Off :

[Pathduck]

@Ornorm Yes, this is the culprit:

Filter			/metrics/metrics$domain=~spatineo.com
Filter list		EasyPrivacy 
Context			store.usps.com
Partyness		(1) usps.com ⇒ usps.com
Type			script
URL			https://store.usps.com/media/js/metrics/metrics.js

The reason it might work in other browsers is that EasyPrivacy is not enabled by default. And it seems that rule was recent. First it worked in Firefox with blocker ON, then I updated filters and the error occurred. The rule seems a bit catch-all but that's the price we pay for privacy

Blame this commit:
https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/77c638ab2bb2ef0f6ac406e34500086b968d78b7/easyprivacy/easyprivacy_general.txt#L2541

[TsunamiZ]

so which developer needs to fix it?

[lamarca]

@TsunamiZ said in BUG: Unable to order stuff at the USPS store...:

so which developer needs to fix it?

You can send the commit link to our Devs using the same e-email Vivaldi sent you.

[sgunhouse]

In the likely event you didn't save it, the email address should look like {your bug number}@bugs.vivaldi.com (I won't post the actual email address here to prevent spammers from harvesting it, but it is obvious.)

[lamarca]

Steve, you know the thread "What the status of my .... ?" They post VB-xxxxxx. Harvesting, nice one.

[sgunhouse]

Has happened before. Either here or at My Opera. They've had to close bugs because spammers got hold of the email address. The spammers don't know there's not actually a person at that address; they just know it's a valid address, And so the bug report gets posts added to it for ED medicine or Nigerian princesses or all the other spam you see ... and they actually have to close that bug because of the "noise". (Presumably they switch to a duplicate, but I'm not there to see what they actually do.)

[lamarca]

There are e-mail generator. It's war, competition. Who did the the work home? cstrep probably didn't.

[theark]

@TsunamiZ

Should try after some time.

[npro]

Can't you just allow it from inside ublock origin's overview panel?

[TsunamiZ]

@Gwen-Dragon said in BUG: Unable to order stuff at the USPS store...:

Could not reproduce it on 2.9.1705.41 Win 10 x64. Tested with a fresh profile and a used one.

did you test with uBlock Origin on?

[npro]

@TsunamiZ just whitelist it as in the screenshot above, no need for dramas.

[TsunamiZ]

@npro

this should get fixed by default, without needing users to do workarounds.

[npro]

@TsunamiZ said in BUG: Unable to order stuff at the USPS store...:

@npro

this should get fixed by default, without needing users to do workarounds.

You have chosen to block ads and scripts using an external program but you refuse to learn how it works and report falsely a bug that does not exist and demand from everyone else but you to not cause you problems.... If you don't want problems just stick to vanilla internet without blocking scripts, frames and others.

[LorenAmelang]

@npro I can sort-of see your point, but I don't remember seeking out Ublock Origin on my own. As I recall it was heavily promoted by Vivaldi and I just consented. And usually it causes no significant problems, so I've never dug into the cryptic dialog it shows if you click its icon - the one with the red and green bars that are meaningless to people with red-green color blindness.

What it doesn't do is communicate when it is causing a problem. For instance in the on - off screenshots above, it could outline the page elements it has blocked and put a little logo in them, so we know something is missing. Otherwise how do we know we're supposed to click that tiny icon thousands of pixels away in the screen corner, and try to figure out what the cryptic symbols mean?

[npro]

@LorenAmelang said in BUG: Unable to order stuff at the USPS store...:

@npro I can sort-of see your point, but I don't remember seeking out Ublock Origin on my own. As I recall it was heavily promoted by Vivaldi and I just consented. And usually it causes no significant problems, so I've never dug into the cryptic dialog it shows if you click its icon - the one with the red and green bars that are meaningless to people with red-green color blindness.

Hi, we don't live in the early 00's anymore and the web has significantly changed for the worse, nowadays even fonts are secret ads, so I suggest you to invest more time into privacy and blocking stuff. The official site here https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Quick-guide:-popup-user-interface contains what you need and is easy to understand with pictures etc.

Also if you take a look in the settings it got you already covered, there is a tickbox for color blindness.

What it doesn't do is communicate when it is causing a problem. For instance in the on - off screenshots above, it could outline the page elements it has blocked and put a little logo in them, so we know something is missing. Otherwise how do we know we're supposed to click that tiny icon thousands of pixels away in the screen corner, and try to figure out what the cryptic symbols mean?

You don't need that -though it exists in some extent in showing placeholders of blocked elements as outlines in ublock origin- when you think that a site is not working as intended the first thing you should do is try loading the webpage with adblocking temporarily disabled, like both users have done and asked for. From there you can further investigate. You can look for that feature you are asking for in other adblockers, maybe they have implemented it more accurately. But if it would show you all things blocked... you wouldn't be able to see the normal webpage "underneath"...

[Ornorm]

@LorenAmelang said in BUG: Unable to order stuff at the USPS store...:

heavily promoted by Vivaldi and I just consented

Do you mean Vivaldi kind of proposed uBlock Origin during the installation of Vivaldi? Weird. Not sure Vivaldi has that kind of agreement with uBlock. Can you please provide more details about your experience?
The suggestion you make is interesting but would be more a suggestion to make to uBlock Origin. I'm maybe wrong but I'm not sure Vivaldi team can do something about it.

[npro]

@Ornorm There was a blog article about how Google moving to Manifest v.3 would break ad blockers here https://vivaldi.com/blog/chromium-ad-blockers-choice/ , definitely not anything "heavily promoted", or I'm missing an older one.