Grey Box ONLY on Games?

[ska6487]

Iv'e tried lot of things, but specifically the flash games don't work? I always get a grey square, my flash is up-to-date, I cleared my cache, nothing seems to be working. And it's only the games that are affected, everything else flash based works fine like games and shops and everything else. Just the games page. And I have it set as allow, I'm not sure what's wrong?

[GillyTook]

I've been having the same problem lately Really bites because a few times I've actually had some time to play and haven't been able to.

[Scoobert_Doo]

Which ad block plugin are you using? The issue seems to be ad block related. If you disable your ad blocker, the games will load, but the ads almost make them unplayable. I was using Ad Block Plus, with Firefox. I switched to uBlock Origin, and the games load fine, and the ads are still blocked. If you look on the "Games" and "Help" Neoboards, there should be posts about creating special filters/allow lists for "Playwire", which will, then, allow the games to load.

Here is a link to a Neopets petpage, explaining how: http://www.neopets.com/~Urbitin#flash

And here is another:
http://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=fedorahead

(It's in the top, left corner of the page).

[GillyTook]

That fixed it.  Any idea if it is a neopets thing (they got irritated that people are using blockers, sort of like yahoo mail's nagging) or if it's an adblock plus thing?  

[Hayley]

You have to enable playwire on your ad blockers.  I literally just fixed this problem for my mom's account, haha.

Here's the tutorials I used to fix it (they're different for uBlock and adBlock)

 

[rafamartins6]

Maybe you have to desactivate Adblocker, some browser came with them, and for some reason stop the game. Maybe with the html5 will be all right. Let's hope for this 

[Scoobert_Doo]

On 11/28/2020 at 7:07 AM, GillyTook said:

That fixed it.  Any idea if it is a neopets thing (they got irritated that people are using blockers, sort of like yahoo mail's nagging) or if it's an adblock plus thing?  

It doesn't seem to be a "Neopets thing". I "heard", on the Neoboards, that, it appears "Easy List" updated their filters, and the filters now block "Playwire". Playwire is an ad provider Neopets uses.

[GillyTook]

That's. . .  weird.  I wonder why it blocks the game itself versus just the ad.  It seems to manage everywhere else.  *grumbles about how she was born in the wrong century with her understanding of how technology works*  I swear, by my technological ability you'd think I was like 90 or something.