TechnoBuffalo.com

[rhanajoy]

Hi, Rhana from AdBlock here. We've had a report, confirmed by us, that Technobuffalo.com now shows those bloody RevDefender ads (which also bring back the lovely Taboola ads, bless their evil hearts).

Example page:

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http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/07/14/new-moto-e-official-specs-price-release/

Screenshots:

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http://imgur.com/a/1mChH

[-Mark-]

It's establishing multiple websocket connections from bulletproofserving.com and pulling ads from adservers via the websocket connection, block it and you won't endure any more ads.

[intense]

Rhana, try these filters

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||taboola.com^

@@/^((?!.*\.(taboola.com|zzzz)\W?).)*$/$script,domain=technobuffalo.com

[rhanajoy]

Thanks, @intense. Unfortunately, no joy. Here's what I'm seeing with those filters:

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https://gyazo.com/b2528041b688f93f5f44287fae2eba5d

[intense]

@Rhana, adblock plus in the last dev build is blocking the websockets, so .. it's matter of time "your" AB will get the same functionality ;)
Test ABP last build: https://adblockplus.org/en/development- ... stallation

the last build fixed also the slickdeals.net issue (issue 4298)

[rhanajoy]

Ah, thanks very much, @intense!

[rhanajoy]

Hey guys, quick update: Those disgusting ads are still unblocked on Technobuffalo.com in Chrome with ABP Dev build 1.12.4.1685, either with @intense's filters above or without. Any suggestions?

Sample link:

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http://www.technobuffalo.com/

Screenshot:

[intense]

I cannot reproduce the issue, however try these classic filters

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@@||technobuffalo.com/*ad

@@||technobuffalo.com^$generichide

[smed79]

No ads for me http://i.imgur.com/xrFg8rO.png

[gotitbro]

No ads here either, tested with EasyList only (those ads are really nasty btw...)

[rhanajoy]

God, aren't they? So gross. And unfortunately, those filters aren't working, in AdBlock, ABP, or ABP dev, in Chrome, even after clearing cache/cookies and resetting settings. (No joy in Edge either.)

[intense]

using ABP dev, do you see in console something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/QNAV5P5.png

[rhanajoy]

I do indeed! What does that mean?

BTW, uBO 1.9.16 blocks those stupid ads without Tampermonkey, straight out of the box. Damn.

[intense]

Did you try ABP dev and disabling all other extensions ? (including tampermonkey)

[smed79]

I do indeed! What does that mean?

- https://vid.me/e/2AZu

- http://i.imgur.com/TWsKyho.png
- http://i.imgur.com/xq4VODY.png
- http://i.imgur.com/GwqxPTV.png

[rhanajoy]

@smed79: Thanks, but I meant to ask, "What does it mean that I see that in the console," not "What does it mean to look for something in the console." I appreciate the effort, though.

@intense: I swear I had only ABP dev enabled and only those filters. Aaaaaand, now they're working in ABP dev and ABP (separately, of course). Sheesh. I have no idea what changed between when they weren't working and now.

[intense]

[Kaos7heory]

Reporting site technobuffalo.com.

Was blocked without issue for the longest time, however about 2-3 months ago ads began appearing on the site. Because at the time I was not aware of this forum, I reported it on a subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comment ... ource=link) for Google Chrome thinking maybe I had set something incorrectly or who knows what else. A user there was able to determine the cause of the reappearance of ads and updated EasyList to resolve it. However as of a few days ago, ads have begun reappearing and I've done everything I know how to do to resolve it on my end (add/remove lists from uBlock Origin, clear UBO cache and redownload lists, clear Google Chrome cache).

I have no idea if the site is displayed without ads on Mozilla Firefox with uBlock Origin.

[LanikSJ]

Reporting site technobuffalo.com.

I merged your thread into an existing one: rules#forumsearch

Please review this thread carefully and try some of the suggested fixes.

[Kaos7heory]

Thanks Lanik. I ran through everything in this thread and I'm still seeing ads using Chrome (55.0.2883.87 m (64-bit)) and uBlock Origin (v1.10.4).

[LanikSJ]

You have a URL example? Same browser using uBO no ads on the home page.

[gorhill]

I see ads on the front page sometimes, these are of the click-bait kind, these ads are inside a sourceless iframe (technobuffalo.com##iframe:not[src]) hides them).

I believe the site may be using network request like https://cdn.video.playwire.com/1014786/videos/5271149/video-sd-107.ts to download ad data, but I can't confirm, as I can't get these ads consistently. There is a whole lots of such requests in that site.

[gorhill]

Ok I see, the site is using WebRTC, this can be seen when looking at chrome://webrtc-internals/.

[fanboy]

Does whitelisting "https://videos.pmi5media.com/ads/technobuffalo/technobuffalo/technobuffalo.html" makes things better?

[-Mark-]

It also opens a WebSocket connection to a.ujieva.com/wsp

[fanboy]

It also opens a WebSocket connection to a.ujieva.com/wsp

Already blocked ^

[gorhill]

Does whitelisting "https://videos.pmi5media.com/ads/techno ... ffalo.html" makes things better?

No, still get ads. The RTCDataChannel is opened in an inline script at the top of the page.

It also opens a WebSocket connection to a.ujieva.com/wsp

This should not happen and does not happen on my side, there is a filter in EasyList that prevent this: *$websocket,domain=technobuffalo.com. The only websocket I see is from Disqus -- which is legit.

[gorhill]

Reporting site technobuffalo.com.

Turns out the site is abusing WebRTC to work around blockers. I updated uBO-Extra to deal with this, I suggest to install if not done already, or update if so: https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra/releases/tag/2.3.

[Kaos7heory]

Excellent. Applied the 2.3 uBO Extra update to Chrome and the site is no longer displaying ads. Thanks again gorhill.

[-Mark-]

Why use uBO Extra for this? You can simply nip it in the bud with this filter gorhill - technobuffalo.com##script:inject(nowebrtc.js)

Just add that filter to uAssets and it's done.