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For several months now I’ve seen that when going to most of the IBM developerWorks articles, the main home page itself, and some other IBM sites like PartnerWorld, the CSS files don’t load and I end seeing plain Web pages without good navigation nor design (for obvious reasons).

I didn’t care too much for a while, but a month ago I decided to take a look and while seeing the Web page source code noticed that most of the CSS and .js files were being loaded from akamai.net. I remembered that there was a filter in Adblock Plus for Akamai content, went to check the Adblock Plus preferences and there it was, a filter blocking the files that some IBM sites need.

Want to say first that it surprised me that IBM was also using Akamai services in order to allow for faster load times of pages. You know, I think the service includes caching those static files to improve performance, etc.

I took a look to the Adblock Plus documentation and found the page that talks about filters, added the following exception rule and I’m now in business:
@@//a248.e.akamai.net/*/www.ibm.com/*

It was the easiest and quickest rule for what I wanted. Still I think it can be narrowed down even more for security purposes. If someone has any suggestion I’m all ears.