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"We have detected you are using an active AdBlock on your web browser. Please disable it. Do not worry, we will not bother you with ads. However, some parts of our website may not work properly or stop working, if your Adblocker is enabled."

That's a first. And a huge put-off from continuing to view your site.. I closed it.

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Eh, the warning is also easily dismissable (how often do you see that?) and they take no further action. Plus, they seem to be remembering the dismissal, and haven't showed me the warning since the first load. Definitely not an unreasonable message, although since their site works perfectly with my adblocker enabled, not sure if it's necessary.

I don't understand this mindset.

This site uses features some ad blockers block.

When you go to Google/Facebook/etc ad-management interface they too ask you to disable ad blockers because it directly interferes with the site functionality.

The two blocked files I see are track.min.js and js/ads.js! [Please turn off your adblocker so we can serve you ads and track you even if we say we won't.]

The level of items being blocked always depends on how the AdBlock is set up. As I wrote in my previous reply, it's just a warning, you can have AdBlock enabled but you might expect issues with social modules (like facebook, twitter and others).

Anyway, have you seen content of the files you mention? The first one is https://trackjs.com (tool for tracking client-side errors), second one serves just to detect AdBlock and show you the warning.

Patrik, Integromat team

Does this mean that your integrations run on the web browser rather than your servers?

Of course not, our servers do all the work :) We have a wide options for scheduling the runs.

Ondrej, Integromat Team

That makes since. Sorry for the premature conclusion.

We don't have any ads on the page. Reason for this warning is that AdBlock is limiting some functions of our page, and since we are focusing on providing high end service, we can't afford to have some parts of page blocked by adblockers. Hope you can understand that.

And you can always continue with AdBlocker on, since this is just a warning.

Patrik, Integromat team

Time for a better ad blocker then

Yeah I use Zapier and IFTTT with my AdBlocker on. So why would this break? Seems odd.

Here is possible to sort out email with more than one attachement.

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