Missing Scrollbar

[darkrats]

Installed 28.7.0 and right away noticed I was unable to scroll due to missing scroll bar at "www.skynews.com". Any thoughts?

[vannilla]

Try safe mode.
Try scrolling without the scroll bar.
Post your troubleshooting informations (see the stickies.)

[Moonchild]

The site seems to do some terrible js and css juggling; during load it will (temporarily) make page overflow hidden (effectively removing the scrollbar) and/or resize the document root to be smaller than the window, but reinstate it again later on. Not anything we can do something about on the browser side of things.

[Tomaso]

Seems to work just fine for me.

Missing scroll bars are often caused by GDPR filtering.
It occurs when a GDPR popup is blocked by a generic cosmetic rule.
..and indeed, such a popup IS present at news.sky.com!

You could either disable your adblocker, or try adding this rule (already used by AdGuard Annoyances filter):

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||sky.com/sourcepoint^

The rule will block Sky's GDPR scripts on a network level, and should thereby allow the pages to load properly (at least for now).

[Moonchild]

Ah, I'm not seeing that because IDCAC takes care of it and properly removes the offending code on my setup.

[Tomaso]

Are you sure?
IDCAC doesn't do anything at that site from my end.
But of course, I'm using the filter list version, which isn't always quite as effective as the extension.

[Moonchild]

The filter list can't deal with some dynamically-added things. This is a known limitation of the filter list version.
I'm using the extension.

[Tomaso]

The filter list can't deal with some dynamically-added things.

Actually, it can.
It simply requires rather advanced rules, which in most cases are highly site-specific. :)

[Moonchild]

The filter list can't deal with some dynamically-added things.

Actually, it can.
It simply requires rather advanced rules, which in most cases are highly site-specific.

No, it can't. The author has told me as much directly.

[Tomaso]

hmm..
Perhaps I've got a different perception of what "dynamically-added" means.

I wrote and posted a couple of rules here a few days ago:
viewtopic.php?f=57&t=22776#p173507
The last one specifically targets a dynamic object.
Basically, ^ means "starting with", so any ID with css- in front of it will be targeted, if the object also contains the sentence "We use cookies".
* can be used in the same way, which would mean "contains".

To unfreeze the page, the popup at news.sky.com seems to require a rule more advanced than I'm capable of writing myself, but I'm sure it can be done.

[billmcct]

Blocking JS fixes it.
In UBO blocking 3rd-party scripts also fixes it.

[Moonchild]

Perhaps I've got a different perception of what "dynamically-added" means.

Yes. Your definition of "dynamically added" is much more specific than mine

[Tomaso]

Blocking JS fixes it.

Yes, I've already pointed that out in my first post.
I'm just saying that the same result can be achieved by blocking elements instead.

[Tomaso]

Working "dynamic" fix:

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sky.com##div[class^="sp_veil"]
sky.com##div[id^="sp_message_panel_"]
sky.com#$#html.sp-message-open { position: static !important; overflow: auto !important; }

Credits to krystian3w, for that last rule:
https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfi ... -526773929
:)

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EDIT:
The "unfreeze" rule is supported by most adblockers, except for ABP-based ones, whose list of supported syntaxes has become extremely outdated at this point!