tag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:/discussions/suggestions/822-various-improvements-in-adblocks-handling-of-safaris-webarchive-to-maintaining-a-unified-user-experienceAdBlock: Discussion 2018-10-19T09:06:57Ztag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/357520242015-01-12T07:39:48Z2015-01-12T07:39:49Zvarious improvements in adblock's handling of Safari's webarchive to maintaining a unified user experience<div><p>I like to keep certain web pages for future reference and I
would save them in .webarchive bundles in my hard drives. When they
were live content fed from the internet, naturally I would be
browsing them with Safari on my mac with adblock enabled, and
everything is perfectly ad-free. Then to keep the pages, I would
click "save as" and select the "webarchive" format. Then if I go to
Finder to select the newly generated file, and click space to
preview the webpage via QuickView, which I will see the ads have
gleefully returned. I understand QuickView is completely something
else, so it's fine. Now press space again to exit QuickView, then
double click the file to open it. Then Safari will launch and
display the page from locally saved data for the most part, the ads
may appear sometimes, or sometimes just a black space or shaded
shape like a placeholder or something, would appear. (I'm guessing
it's because the codes in the html source maybe outdated--depending
how long the webarchive has been sitting in my HD collecting
dust--and thus unable to properly communicate with relevant servers
to fetch the ad contents? I'm not sure to be honest.) Nonetheless
it will obscure the appearance of the page--one might argue that
without any adblocking, that was the originally intended appearance
of the page, but I would would reason that since the users can
customize the ad filtering, so presumably the user has done so
until the appearance is acceptable according to his/her personal
preference. And only until that moment, the user would choose to
save the page. However the page is not preserved the way it was
appearing at the time of saving. I think adblock is only hiding
certain elements as per the list of filter it was given, but was
not removed. It would be great to be able to remove them as per the
filter list at the time of saving. I am sure there are many others
who may not like this feature, so I would suggest that this could
be into an advanced option that allows this feature with the
flexibility of user's preferences.</p>
<p>I also noticed there are no adblock capabilities when the web
page is generated in a safari browser from local storage as opposed
to internet fed data. Is there a reason why this is not possible?
Because when I right click on the page, the popup menu where I
would normally see the option to "Block this ad" does not appear.
And clicking the adblock button up on the tool bar only pops up a
menu but also missing the "Block this ad" option. Sorry if I'm
asking the obvious but my tech knowhow is limited. If there is an
inevitable reason why it is not possible, and also while the option
as suggested in the last paragraph is not possible, then may I
suggest to put a shaded message in the popup menus (appearing like
just a very short line of text in the popup menus but the text
colour appears greyed out), saying to the effect of "adblock is not
applicable here" or "adblock features disabled in webarchives",
something like that? It took me 40 mins to google it to figure out
this is intended and not a bug, by which time I was already halfway
thru submitting a bug report filling out the 1. 2. 3. 4...</p>
<p>Just my 2 cents and honest feedback of my experience while using
adblock. Hope everyone at adblock a great 2015!</p></div>Kidd Tan