hi! sorry for the random ask, but I'm sending this to you because of your comment with that PWA guide for Android users from a couple months ago? I followed the instructions and it worked like a charm this entire time, except for just now! I opened up tumblr thru my PWA and lo and behold, tumblr live is back at the top of my dash and I don't know how or why! do you know how to get rid of this new instance?
Sorry for the late response!! Glad to know that guide helped some people (it's here for anyone who hasn't seen it).
If you just want to know the fix then I'll add the line down at the bottom so you can copy/paste, but seeing as you did ask why it came back I'm going to hijack your ask for an educational opportunity.
Webpages are structured using HTML (HyperText Markup Language). Examples of HTML elements are <h1>, used for the main heading of a page, <p>, used for paragraphs, and <div>, used for separating content into sections. A very basic webpage might be written like:
<html>
<body>
<h1>My Webpage</h1>
<p>This is my webpage!</p>
<p>This is my very first webpage.</p>
<p>I hope you like it :)</p>
</body>
</html>
A webpage for sure, but a pretty ugly one, and it definitely doesn't have all sorts of cool funtionality like the tumblr site does. To make a webpage do cool stuff, we need to use JavaScript, and to make it look nice, we need to style it using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
Let's have a go at some CSS! For example, what if I wanted to make all my paragraphs (the <p> elements) red? Let's see:
Awesome! But what if I just wanted, say, my first paragraph to be red? How would I do that? Luckily, in my HTML, I could give that first paragraph an id, and then I could use that id in the CSS, like so:
<p id="subtitle">This is my webpage!</p>
#subtitle {
color: red;
}
(Using a # symbol in the CSS tells it to look for an element with the id of subtitle).
Ok, but now let's say that I wanted to color my other paragraphs green. I could do something like this:
<p id="para1">This is my very first webpage.</p>
<p id="para2">I hope you like it :)</p>
#para1, #para2 {
color: green;
}
And this would work! But it's pretty bulky to write, and that's only with 2 paragraphs! Imagine if I had 5, or 100!
Luckily, another feature we can use is classes. Classes work a bit like ids, but you can apply them to more than one element, so you can style a bunch of elements at once! Elements can also have more than one class, if they need to. Let's see:
<p class="green">This is my very first webpage.</p>
<p class="green">I hope you like it :)</p>
(Using a . symbol in the CSS tells it to look for elements with the class of green).
Ok, this is great and all, but what's it got to do with blocking the Tumblr live stuff? I'm now going to show you the line you need to add to your content blocker to remove the Tumblr Live element:
It looks a little different, but this is actually using CSS syntax! The first part tells our content blocker which site to apply the rule to, and the ## tells it that we're about to give a styling rule, but look at the bit after:
We know what the .s mean - it's just specifying classes! This line is telling our content blocker to block any elements that have the classes "KDMTE" and "wQ2Ma", which are the classes given to the <div> element that contains all the Tumblr Live stuff.
Cool! But why did these classes change from before? And who calls a class something like "wQ2Ma" anyway????
The answer is that a human didn't name a class "wQ2Ma", a computer did. With large sites like Tumblr, it's very common to design the site using something called a framework. I'm not a professional web developer and have never really used frameworks personally, but the way I understand them is that it provides a kind of interface between the programmer and the low-level HTML code, which can speed up development a lot. However, it does mean that class names get kind of randomly generated, so you end up with stuff like "wQ2Ma". This is also why the class names have changed from before - when the latest update to the user interface was deployed, all of these class names would have been generated again, meaning the old blocking rules wouldn't work anymore.
So there you go! That's why Tumblr Live came back! Here's the line you need to add to your content blocker if you didn't want to read my whole spiel (I don't blame you lol):
dededos
turnnoffyourmind
stormborns
blakekathryn
