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So funny thing about #kbin. I post a photo thread. I go to my profile and see the thread. I click on the image preview icon. I immediately get sent to https://kbin.social/u/undefined. Not only is Mr. Undefined a real user, hello @undefined, but somehow my image now directs to his profile.

As I dig into Firefox dev tools to find out why, I see that uBlock Origin has blocked the request for my image. But that's odd, I have no specific blocking rules for kbin, and kbin.social doesn't run ads. What's up?

So it turns out my image got uploaded to the following URL: https://media.kbin.social/media/ad/b2/adb203028331eada7f99f2b4547cbc0a7efc0ba4e203a71d9d193c02d38aa4f1.jpg

.../media/ad/... That's what uBlock was upset about. So by blocking that request, the target of the AJAX fetch is... undefined. Hence my trip to a random user's profile. XD

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[โ€“] Teppic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@HarkMahlberg
I think a bug report to ublock would be more sensible. I guess ultimately this creates a question about at what point kbin should code around a somebody else's bug (which may only be temporary)... I don't know the answer to that one.

[โ€“] e569668@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

@Teppic
@HarkMahlberg

I don't disagree that could be tried, but I just doubt they would change that rule just for kbin, compared to kbin changing it from /media/ to anything else like /media/hash/ and avoiding the problem. I have to imagine most users of the fediverse use ublock and use the default lists