Hello,
i would like to tell you about something odd i experienced today. I have built a website with a frontpage that contains little images next to text. (www.ikob.be), which isn’t really a special thing.
But: somehow one image was always missing. In the inspector in Chrome i could see that it was in the code, but had an inline style that said: display: none
Now, i had not written that and it was unclear where it came from. In Firefox and Safari, it seemed fine (visible). To make a long (search-)story short: It was my adblocker, who was doing this.
After a little research, i found this:
Adblock will block images
with common ad dimensions in the file name, e.g. ‘myimage_720_90.png’ or ‘myimage_300x250.jpg’.
with common ad keywords in their path (and file name), e.g. banners, adv, ad.
maybe other filters that analyse CSS or HTML
my image happend to have a dimension that would be 300 x 250 px because i had thumbnails being made with a width of 300px.
i am not sure what to make of this, but it is a strange feeling that an adblocker potentially renders images invisible because their filename says: 300x250
my workaround this time was to cut a bit off, so now the filename is 300x249
for the future i guess its best to create thumbnails with odd numbers, like 299 instead of 300px…
