I have the blue rectangle blues

[David Eisner]

I am using Disconnect 3.0.0 on Chrome.  See accompanying screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/8q0Es

I have started to notice occasional opaque blue rectangles obscuring portions of web pages.  I first noticed this on my 'goo.gl' page.  When I moused over the rectangle, the alt text said "Unblock Google."  When I unblocked Google in Disconnect, the rectangle went away.  This didn't seem like too much of an issue, since it's not unreasonable to let Google's URL shortening service talk to Google.

But I'm seeing it in Gmail, too, even when Disconnect says it's not blocking anything.  For example, the second screenshot shows me reading a Washington Post email in Gmail.  There's a big blue rectangle, and the mouse-over alt text says "Unblock DoubleClick."  This sounds like blackmail: "Those are some nice pixels you got there.  It would be ashame if anything happened to them.  So why don't you just unblock our ad network and we'll forget the whole thing."

Is anybody else having this problem? 

[Brian Kennish]

Thanks a lot for the report David.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:22 PM, David Eisner <dei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have started to notice occasional opaque blue rectangles obscuring
> portions of web pages.  I first noticed this on my 'goo.gl' page.  When I
> moused over the rectangle, the alt text said "Unblock Google."

I'll whitelist goo.gl (I hadn't considered that domain before).

> But I'm seeing it in Gmail, too, even when Disconnect says it's not blocking
> anything.  For example, the second screenshot shows me reading a Washington
> Post email in Gmail.  There's a big blue rectangle, and the mouse-over alt
> text says "Unblock DoubleClick."

Interesting, I didn't know Google was running DoubleClick ads on their
own properties. Let me think some more about what to do in this case.

[Timothy Brandt]

I'm having similar difficulties, primarily with Facebook's blocked content rectangles bleeding all over the screen/showing up in very strange places. I'm using 3.0.1. Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/uys7A#dcf8K

[Brian Kennish]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Timothy Brandt
<timothy....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having similar difficulties, primarily with Facebook's blocked content
> rectangles bleeding all over the screen/showing up in very strange places.

You can make the highlighted boxes go away -- bring up a context menu
on the "d" button, pick Options, then switch Highlight to Collapse or
Ignore.

I think the boxes work pretty well now and I'll shoot for better
compatibility with these and any other misaligned pages you send me,
but placing the boxes is an inexact science.

[Mark Sta Ana]

not sure if this is considered off topic, but i'm getting the same thing when i use feedly (an revamped UI to google reader). it seems to affect fav icons and if you have the twitter sidebar enabled also hides people's avatars. i'm using two stage authentication, wondering if this has contributed to the problems?

using 10.0.648.114 beta on osx

[Brian Kennish]

Thanks, I've gotten a few reports about feedly now and will see what's up.

[Gabriel Perren]

I'm having problems with Facebook too.

Sometimes I'll get oversized blue rectangles, sometimes it won't block Facebook at all.

I'm using Chrome 10.0.648.127 in Ubuntu 10.10

[Brian Kennish]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Gabriel Perren <gabrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having problems with Facebook too.
> Sometimes I'll get oversized blue rectangles, sometimes it won't block
> Facebook at all.

What URLs does this stuff happen on?