YouTube ads are back

[smed79]

Bunch of reports of the same ads:

viewtopic.php?f=62&t=25054
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=25053
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=25052

please unlock this topic viewtopic.php?f=62&t=25052 it is an adware infection not Youtube ads.

Thanks!
Med

[gorhill]

Confirmed to be a Chrome 45+ issue: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issu ... =526413#c6

Confirmed that this happens with all adblockers [...] I think I've figured this out. It was a security fix tracked in bug 510802 which we can't make public yet, but it has the details.

[gorhill]

Somebody left a tip on my issue tracker:

This happens if you have youtube app in chrome, remove it and uBlock starts working.

The new webrequest filtering code treats those apps like extensions and filters the requests out.

I can't confirm this workaround myself, as I have never been able to reproduce the issue so far.

[intense]

it seems to work removing YT app from chrome:
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic ... 67#p137967

[InfiniteIce]

Confirmed Chrome bug, the youtube app is being treated as a full extension and therefore not being filtered by any ad-blocking service (ABP, ublock, etc).

Individual ads can still be blocked via page inspection of ad elements & manual filtering of these elements, but you will still see other ads after blocking these individually. So unless you want to block them all individually, each time they appear, you need to disable the youtube app in chrome.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issu ... ?id=526413

-Navigate to chrome://apps
-Right click the Youtube app, click remove.

You don't need the YouTube app to use youtube.com and this can safely be disabled either permanently or untilt he next Chrome update that fixes the underlying security vulnerability causing the app to be treated as a full browser extension.

[Zahndethus]

Removing YT app seems to have worked!