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heavyboots
Inspiring
August 30, 2012
Question

stats.adobe.com redirect breaks all links

  • August 30, 2012
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So, as part of my blackhole hosts file that automatically blocks ad & site tracking, I figured out that stats.adobe.com is linked to 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts file.

Is anyone in Adobe tech support aware that this breaks your entire forums site for both Chrome and Safari?

The two urls that kill all ability to click a link on the forums.adobe.com website are:

stats.adobe.com/b/ss/mxmacromedia/1/H.15.1/s81639209431596

stats.adobe.com/b/ss/mxchlprod/1/H.25T/s84986080005764

They appear to try and report back everything they possibly can about the browser, including what plugins, user screen size, browser window screen size, etc.

Apparently the FireFox javascript engine is a bit more flexible in how it deals with these URLs being broken, but this is really annoying and you guys might want to fix it.

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    John Hawkinson
    John Hawkinson
    Inspiring
    August 30, 2012

    'boots, you're on your own! If you block Adobe's web site, Adobe's web site isn't going to work. It's really that simple.

    Knocking out web sites by forcing their IP addresses to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) in your hosts file is not really a good idea.

    It is always an "at your own risk" kind of activity, and you should never be surprised that it breaks something.

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    heavybootsAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 30, 2012

    While I agree with you in part, it's pretty bad programming on somone at Adobe's part to assume the stats server will always be up.

    Everyone out there using Chrome or Safari is going to experience the same thing that I am if that ever stops responding. Which it will eventually. No web hosting is ever entirely successful.

    Plus, it's the only forum that this occurs on and it only started occurring recently—like as of the last update by Adobe, I think. It just took me a while to get annoyed enough by it to sit down and figure out what the cause was.

    So it's a bug report as much as it is an uncommon configuration.

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    heavybootsAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 15, 2013

    OK, I win. Add this to your AdBlock manual filters list. (And as a bonus, unbreak Apple's website too.)

    http://images.apple.com/metrics/scripts/s_code_h.js
    http://wwwimages.adobe.com/uber/js/omniture_s_code.js

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