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Review the alert message about adblocker preventing AQS requests
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At the moment, the message is "Your ad blocker is preventing Wikistats from reaching the server. Disable it to be able to see all metrics correctly."

That message is quite standard and uses the same semantic field as many websites that require to disable ad blockers to display the ads they need to finance their services. Wikimeida services are free of ads and people rely on that to be true all the time, si read that message is confusing.

I would advice you to change it for something more clear (including the reason - menton the scripts), like:

"Your ad blocker is preventing Wikistats' scripts from reaching the server. Disable it to be able to see all metrics correctly. As on all Wikimedia services, we will not display ads. :)"

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Change 398598 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nuria; owner: Nuria):
[analytics/wikistats2@master] Change addblocker text

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/398598

@Trizek-WMF I suggested some alternative language here, I think mentioning scripts is likely confusing for users. Let us know what you think: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/398598/1/src/App.vue

@Trizek-WMF I suggested some alternative language here, I think mentioning scripts is likely confusing for users. Let us know what you think: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/398598/1/src/App.vue

I think is is really less confusing. :)

@Trizek-WMF sorry I'm not sure if you mean your suggestion is still clearer. To make sure, I'll copy my suggestion here:

"Your ad blocker is preventing Wikistats from showing you metrics, because our API uses the word "pageview". There are no ads on any Wikimedia sites, but to see all metrics correctly you need to disable your ad blocker for this site."

What do you think?

Sorry I haven't been clear enough. Yours is perfectly fine, that is what I meant to say. :)

No problem! Thank you for the task, will update the patch now.

Change 398598 merged by jenkins-bot:
[analytics/wikistats2@master] Change addblocker text

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/398598