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Mr Magoo
13 Oct 15 18:32
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Is anyone else having a problem viewing the exchange markets with ad blockers? I use the plugin 'Ghostery' and on Firefox & Safari, the markets have recently stopped loading.

In order to make the site work again, you have to allow the 'Google Tag Manager' to load on the site. Why on earth does Betfair's website depend upon a third party in order to work?
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Report Gin October 13, 2015 7:48 PM BST
I'm not using Ghostery but haven't had any problems with the markets whilst using Kaspersky's blocking (along with adblock plus).

I am though having problems with Purple's new site and have to revert to the classic site.
Report PeteTheBloke October 13, 2015 8:54 PM BST
Mr M, there was another thread about this somewhere. I found I had to whitelist BF on Ghostery. Same for Oddschecker.

Someone said that you only need to untick one of the blocked elements, but I don't want to do that. I'd rather whitelist
Betfair and have the cookies blocked anywhere else they might appear.
Report Mr Magoo October 14, 2015 1:36 PM BST
I've got the reverse problem to you, Gin. Purple site is working fine, it's just BF misbehaving. Might be due to a different adblocker (I'm using uBlock) I've grudgingly disabled some of the blocking to make Betfair usable again.

PeteTheBloke, on Ghostery you can whitelist 'Google Tag Manager' just for Betfair's site. Click on the ghostery icon, then click on the greyed-out tick next to its name. This is different from clicking on the adjacent slider toggle thingie, which would whitelist it for every site.

I'd also recommend the 'self-destructing cookies' add-on in Firefox - if you run into a crappy site like Betfair's that needs some of these tracking sites to work, it will delete their cookies after you close the tab or browse elsewhere.
Report Gin October 14, 2015 3:22 PM BST
I can't get into the purple classic site today but can use the new site Crazy
Report PeteTheBloke October 14, 2015 7:06 PM BST
Thanks Mr M. Good tip.

I don't trust cookies to self-destruct. I murder the hell out of them a few times a day. Being paranoid
is a pain at times, but it makes me happy to think of all the data they are not collecting about me.
Report longbridge October 15, 2015 10:47 AM BST
Thread in HR Forum was this one:

community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30594955/have-we-crashed-the-site
Report starship October 16, 2015 9:02 PM BST
i had problems with pop ups and my betfair would not greyhounds and the horse racing markets,
i noticed that a lot of pop ups were being sent by DNSunlocker,
went to you tube, followed this guy instrutions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRKBA5QGBJ4

oi oi, no more pop ups and betfair is working fine again
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