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3 10 January 1, 2023 at 01:56 PM
Links are not working for some stores (Home Depot, Target etc) on my computer. When I click on the link, nothing happens. Can anybody help? I have no idea how to fix it. Other sites (like Amazon) work fine.
Just cleaned out all the cookies, junk files.

TIA
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01-01-2023 at 02:20 PM.
01-01-2023 at 02:20 PM.
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. I notified the devs. You can try temporarily turning off your ad blocker to access the links until the issue is resolved.
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Blade2000
01-02-2023 at 12:47 PM.
01-02-2023 at 12:47 PM.
Same. Lowes and Home Depot no longer work.
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maxpower097
01-05-2023 at 06:14 AM.
01-05-2023 at 06:14 AM.
Quote from pgupt :
Links are not working for some stores (Home Depot, Target etc) on my computer. When I click on the link, nothing happens. Can anybody help? I have no idea how to fix it. Other sites (like Amazon) work fine.
Just cleaned out all the cookies, junk files.

TIA
Same with me a few days ago. Open link and it opens and closes immeditelly.
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TomI5144
01-05-2023 at 12:22 PM.
01-05-2023 at 12:22 PM.
It was Ad Block Plus killing the links. Disable temporarily, and links from HD, Target, Lowes, etc are working.
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theST0RM
01-08-2023 at 01:25 PM.
01-08-2023 at 01:25 PM.
Kohl's links are broke too.
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sup3rson1c
01-09-2023 at 05:02 AM.
01-09-2023 at 05:02 AM.
Quote from TomI5144 :
It was Ad Block Plus killing the links. Disable temporarily, and links from HD, Target, Lowes, etc are working.
I use ublock origin and seeing the same. We shouldn't have to disable though since it's been working for years.
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KMan
01-10-2023 at 11:17 AM.
01-10-2023 at 11:17 AM.
Same thing happening to me with HD links, but not on Edge. I use Adblock (the standard, not Plus version). Is there a way to disable it for HD links here but not anything else? I like being able to block ads (virtually none of which I ever click on).

I de-blocked this site and now the links are working. So I guess that's my solution, unless there's an even better one. But I don't really mind ads here, since site is all about products, vendors and companies, so long as they don't get out of hand and do popups and popovers and such.
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01-30-2023 at 11:27 AM.
01-30-2023 at 11:27 AM.
Same happens to me, but more recently it's the viglink affiliate. (Network wide block instead of a browser extension).

I wish there was an option to disable the affiliate link redirection for these cases. (as far as I know it's specifically the redirection that gets blocked).

My work blocks all viglink endpoints since they apparently have been used by bad actors to open affiliate links without user interaction.
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