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dictoresno

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Apr 30, 2012
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All of a sudden in the past week, one of the forums I frequent began loading quickly and appearing normally, then load to a blank page. Its one of the sub forums within the main forum, and its the only forum on that whole website that had the issue. Tried deleting all cache and rebooting, didn't work. Figured it was one of the macOS betas I was running, but it was also occurring on my iPhone. Loading the mobile site worked fine, but trying to use the desktop version loaded to a blank page. Realized after some searching, that the issue was possibly due to a content blocker. I am using AdBlock Plus on my computer and AdGuard on the phone. I disabled the ad blockers on both and sure enough, the website worked. Now is this an iOS/macos issue and how safari deals with the adblocking apps, strictly an issue with the different Adblock apps themselves or an issue with the forum software.

I was able to whitelist the forum on my phone and enable safari content blocking on the AdBlock Plus settings and now theres no issues. Due to it happening on two different platforms, with two different content blockers, would this point to the website being the issue?
 
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