Trying to let the leaf live

Puzzle pieces

I was browsing around leaflet.pub website and noticed things that made me curious.

Some publications were completely blank, just one solid color that was the same background color used by the theme set on that leaflet publication.

Turns out it was uBlock Origin blocking a request to https://{leaflet domain used for publication}/_vercel/insights/script.js

...Seriously ? No I don't really know ! But after noticing it and disabling uBlock I could finally see the publication.

Maybe that was an one-off issue with ungoogled chromium 146.0.7680.71 ?

Or maybe the web extension Decentraleyes that I have installed messed something up ?

Having so much uncertainty over the software I use is probably not good, but I guess you have to be at peace with that and leave little pockets of randomness in your life, to be explored later on. (coping)

Le nerf de la guerre

Wait why is this script from Vercel getting injected in the publication ?

Quick Kagi search brings up some blogs posts :

https://kai.bi/post/vercel-kill-adblock

https://stepanpavlov.com/writing/bypass-vercel-analytics-block-nextjs

https://dev.to/oneminch/how-to-bypass-ad-blockers-for-vercel-analytics-in-nuxt-o79

And this Vercel page : https://vercel.com/docs/analytics

Wow those analytics must really be important !

Is this what leaflet is selling as a subscription when they mention analytics ? Just asking, no undertones here.

I am not really familiar with Vercel, is it even possible to have isolated analytics for every subdomains on *.leaflet.pub and every custom domains registered by users that alias via CNAME records to Vercel-owned domains ? I guess so.

I am not a fan of Vercel so seeing it used by leaflet.pub kinda put me off. I wasn't expecting an open-source project to use their analytics solution.

When I grow up I want to be a root name server

When creating my first publication, I registered it to a subdomain of leaflet.pub, and then deleted the publication. Maybe that's stupid but I was trying to figure things out.

I tried registering the same subdomain but it is telling me that it is already taken.

That's interesting, if registration of the subdomain is automatic, why not the removal ? something something DNS propagation time ? I don't know !

Do I have to contact leaflet so they manually remove the record somewhere ? It seems like so.