Nextcloud official web page is blank when ad-blocker enabled

If I open this page with uBlock Origin enabled: https://nextcloud.com/sharing/

Iā€™m getting a blank page, and this error message in the console:

Iā€™m sure itā€™s an overlook but for an organisation that champions user privacy, it doesnā€™t look good to serve blank pages just because the user has an ad-blocker.

@laurent Just to be sure, did you check the same page again later? Iā€™ve noticed the site going down for brief periods several times this year, so you may have been unlucky in timing.

Otherwise: I currently have no trouble accessing or displaying the page you linked. I have uBlock Origin, Firefoxā€™s built-in protection, EFFā€™s Privacy Badger, and DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials all enabled, with near-default settings. The only things blocked are cookies from YouTube and stats.nextcloud.com, which appears to be a Piwik analytics server hosted on the same IP block as www.nextcloud.com. Do you have any custom lists or settings enabled that might apply here?

For me it works without uBlock Origin but doesnā€™t with it (and still doesnā€™t). Iā€™ve checked and itā€™s due to the Annoyances filter which blocks cookie notices.

As far as I can see thereā€™s no issue with the filter, and itā€™s Nextcloud that should fail gracefully when this non-essential cookie popup script is not loaded.

See below for full details:

the website has a repository https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud.com

here they still use wordpress, some things might be difficult to change. There were plans to move to hugo: https://github.com/nextcloud/website

However, the website clearly has no ads. And they shouldnā€™t have any 3rd-party tracking, so if there are issues, please contact them directly through the bug tracker.

ref https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud.com/issues/1159

Iā€™d love to fix it, but Iā€™m simply clueless on how, sorry :cry: suggestions/pull requests welcome!

@laurent I cannot consent to your claim and would like to ask for more details.

As of today my browser has access and the full page is visible.

  • Firefox 68.2.0esr with add-on uBlock Origin v1.22.4
  • Annoyance filter is activated.
  • No whitelisting of nextcloud.com in my setup.

May I suggest the option you could check your setup and could seek to optimise your local filtering?


IMHO it could be sufficient to just whitelist the nextcloud.com website (see below).

Local workaround as a user:

Ref to the ā€œuBlock originā€ Wiki

  1. How to whitelist a web site
  2. Plain hostname
  • nextcloud.com: whitelist all pages from nextcloud.com or above (i.e. nextcloud.com, www.nextcloud.com, help.nextcloud.com).

Please note I have added this to the forum in addition to the a.m. issue for better visibility only. Thank you for your interest.