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PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:07 pm 
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Hi,

I desperately search for the BUY button on the site. I go to products, chose WinStep Extreme, click on Buy Now, but on the next page there is no BUY button, so I have no idea how I am supposed to buy it??

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 Post subject: Re: I can't locate the BUY button
PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:32 pm 
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DeadVoivod wrote:
Hi,

I desperately search for the BUY button on the site. I go to products, chose WinStep Extreme, click on Buy Now, but on the next page there is no BUY button, so I have no idea how I am supposed to buy it??

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Each of the options for different versions has an "Add to cart" button.

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 Post subject: Re: I can't locate the BUY button
PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:45 pm 
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I click this button:

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Then I get this page, but no BUY button or ADD TO CART

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 Post subject: Re: I can't locate the BUY button
PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 7:46 pm 
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Your ad-blocker is blocking the "Add to cart" button. It's doing that because the button takes you directly to another site (bmtmicro.com), so the ad-blocker generically thinks it could be an ad instead of a legitimate button.


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 Post subject: Re: I can't locate the BUY button
PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:44 pm 
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Indeed, it was the AdBlocker.

Thanks a lot.


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 Post subject: Re: I can't locate the BUY button
PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:47 pm 
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DesertDwarf wrote:
Your ad-blocker is blocking the "Add to cart" button. It's doing that because the button takes you directly to another site (bmtmicro.com), so the ad-blocker generically thinks it could be an ad instead of a legitimate button.


WOW. I would never have known this could be a thing.

What a stupid 'feature', if only because the user would only click the button if he wants to.

This said, I run AdBlocker under Firefox and it doesn't do that here.

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 Post subject: Re: I can't locate the BUY button
PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:22 am 
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I'm now running Brave (I wasn't when I wrote the reply above). By default, it's blocking your "Add to Cart" buttons, too.

When I wrote the reply, I was running Microsoft Edge with uBlock installed.


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 Post subject: Re: I can't locate the BUY button
PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:52 am 
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Ok, thanks for the heads up.

I added a blue "NOTE: please disable your ad-blocker if you cannot see the Add to Cart buttons below." line to the top of the Buy Now pages.

Hope that alleviates the issue since there is nothing I can do to actually fix it. This is REALLY REALLY stupid, buttons are not adverts.

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 Post subject: Re: I can't locate the BUY button
PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 5:09 am 
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winstep wrote:
buttons are not adverts.

Code:
<a href="https://secure.bmtmicro.com/servlets/Orders.ShoppingCart?CID=493&amp;PRODUCTID=4930001&amp;CLR" title="Add to cart Winstep Xtreme" class="button green">Add to Cart</a>

I thought maybe you meant form buttons, but they are just straight links. You realize that the most basic of advertisements looks just like this?

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<a href="https://some.other.site.that.is.not.this.site.com/shopping/cart/in/url">With an Add to Cart Text</a>


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 5:17 am 
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WWW = World Wide Web. If you kill all external links it's not a web anymore, much less worldwide. :D

Imagine if ad-blocks did the same to the Google Search engine lol All the text and none of the site links :lol:

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Oh, for Pete's sake, the would, of course, have Google whitelisted.

If you don't want ads blocked, don't use an ad-blocker. If you do want ads blocked, the user needs be willing to understand that some less-well-known sites may not already be whitelisted.

I was challenging your assertion that your standard links pointing to another site with sales-related verbiage does not look like an ad. To an ad-blocker, it looks like an ad.


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Ric, BMT Micro asked all vendors to change the links because of the issues with uBlock (and also a problem with Chrome).

Can you please check that the Buy Now buttons now appear correctly even with uBlock turned on, please?

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winstep wrote:
Ric, BMT Micro asked all vendors to change the links because of the issues with uBlock (and also a problem with Chrome).

Can you please check that the Buy Now buttons now appear correctly even with uBlock turned on, please?

Brave (all privacy features turned on as by default) and Microsoft Edge with uBlock look fine. Here's Edge with uBlock:

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 4:21 pm 
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Thank you, kind sir. :D

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