YouTube ads are back
YouTube ads are back
Hi! Rhana, AdBlock Community Manager, here. We're suddenly getting lots of reports that pre-roll and in-video ads are appearing in YouTube videos again. It may or may not be related to a recent Chrome upgrade. I searched the forums here and didn't find any other posts about this, so forgive me if I'm telling you something you already know.
Rhana
AdBlock Community Manager
Posting on behalf of AdBlock (not ABP), when users come to us first and we have some reason to get involved with the discussion. http://help.getadblock.com
AdBlock Community Manager
Posting on behalf of AdBlock (not ABP), when users come to us first and we have some reason to get involved with the discussion. http://help.getadblock.com
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Yeah, I noticed this today. They also play every 15min for longer videos. I got a 5 minute ad in the middle of a 30 min video game play. VERY frustrating. Help, please, Adblock masters! D:
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I'm having the same issue! Everything was working fine... and then ads started popping up!
Please, AdBlock! Save us! D:
Please, AdBlock! Save us! D:
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
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=25054
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=25053
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=25052
"If it ain't broke don't fix it."
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Could this have been caused by a recent update in Chrome? I'm not sure.
Here too I receive many complaints about Youtube ads from the store. Someone filed an issue a while ago with Chrome >44 (beta/dev) while it was still in beta: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/594#. I have not been able to reproduce ever. It does appear something changed in Chrome 45, as the user was not able to reproduce using Chrome 44, but was able to reproduce systematically using Chrome 46 -- and other users with Chrome 45.
No such issue with Firefox/Nightly.
No such issue with Firefox/Nightly.
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Are there any plans to fix this, or is this just something we'll have to deal with due to the new chrome?rhanajoy wrote:Hi! Rhana, AdBlock Community Manager, here. We're suddenly getting lots of reports that pre-roll and in-video ads are appearing in YouTube videos again. It may or may not be related to a recent Chrome upgrade. I searched the forums here and didn't find any other posts about this, so forgive me if I'm telling you something you already know.
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I tried the suggestions on the fourms (Minus reinstalling chrome, of course.)intense wrote:reports on adblock plus forum:
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=40250
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=40260
I'm still not sure why this is happening.
a user reported on ABP forum:
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic ... 70#p137870I manually added the filter "youtube.com##video[src="blob:https%3A//www.youtube.com/eac9235f-3159-4e72-946c-3c22db48290a"]" and that seem to work.
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intense wrote:a user reported on ABP forum:
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic ... 70#p137870I manually added the filter "youtube.com##video[src="blob:https%3A//www.youtube.com/eac9235f-3159-4e72-946c-3c22db48290a"]" and that seem to work.
I don't know how to make it work; it fails everytime for me.
CubanBoi, please see our Knowledge Base article for everything we know about this right now: http://support.getadblock.com/kb/recent ... -in-chrome. (NicoTheSuperior, that article also explains how to add the filter in AdBlock. I think it will work similarly in ABP or other ad blockers.)
This appears not to be exclusive to AdBlock but is happening with all ad blockers. That suggests Google has found a way around the EasyList filters, which aren't maintained by AdBlock.
This appears not to be exclusive to AdBlock but is happening with all ad blockers. That suggests Google has found a way around the EasyList filters, which aren't maintained by AdBlock.
Rhana
AdBlock Community Manager
Posting on behalf of AdBlock (not ABP), when users come to us first and we have some reason to get involved with the discussion. http://help.getadblock.com
AdBlock Community Manager
Posting on behalf of AdBlock (not ABP), when users come to us first and we have some reason to get involved with the discussion. http://help.getadblock.com
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does not work, try:
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youtube.com##video[src="blob:https%3A//www.youtube.com/eac9235f-3159-4e72-946c-3c22db48290a"]
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youtube.com##video[src^="blob:https"]
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The second filter just makes the video go all black.intense wrote:ifdoes not work, try:Code: Select all
youtube.com##video[src="blob:https%3A//www.youtube.com/eac9235f-3159-4e72-946c-3c22db48290a"]
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youtube.com##video[src^="blob:https"]
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blob:http%3A://www.youtube.com/eac9235f-3159-4e72-946c-3c22db48290a
please unlock this topic viewtopic.php?f=62&t=25052 it is an adware infection not Youtube ads.Lanik wrote: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
Thanks!
Med
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.
Somebody left a tip on my issue tracker:
I can't confirm this workaround myself, as I have never been able to reproduce the issue so far.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.
it seems to work removing YT app from chrome:
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic ... 67#p137967
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic ... 67#p137967
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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.
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.