dailycaller.com

[inspector]

I've been seeing ads on dailycaller.com for some time now, and began wondering why they never get zapped. I tracked them down, and realized they are not loaded by a regular javascript, they are loaded over websockets. Here is the ws URL responsible for loading these ads:

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ws://ws-gateway.com/

With these request headers:

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Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, sdch

Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8,sv;q=0.6,de;q=0.4,es;q=0.2

Cache-Control:no-cache

Connection:Upgrade

Host:ws-gateway.com

Origin:http://dailycaller.com

Pragma:no-cache

Sec-WebSocket-Extensions:permessage-deflate; client_max_window_bits

Sec-WebSocket-Key:LS+/r5d71cvYT0nTqXcT6A==

Sec-WebSocket-Version:13

Upgrade:websocket

User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.86 Safari/537.36

Then I found out that the Adblocker plugin I'm using doesn't actually support blocking websocket connections in Chrome (Adblock+). I haven't tried it, but its supposed to be possible to block websocket connections in Firefox.
uBlock Origin has created a workaround which allows that plugin to block websocket connections in Chrome anyway, and this brings me to suggest the following block be added to easylist:

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||ws-gateway.com^$script

This gets rid of these ads at least for those using uBlock, and presumably in Firefox with regular Adblockers as well! Hopefully the problem will be fixed in Chrome soon, for all the Chrome / AdBlock+ users out there!

[fanboy]

Apart from being a chrome/webkit limitation, there is little we can do atm.

[smed79]

ws-gateway.com already blocked by easylist.

[intense]

for dailycaller on chrome, even without ubo, add these filters:

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@@||dailycaller.com^$generichide

||outbrain.com^$domain=dailycaller.com

dailycaller.com##.OUTBRAIN

[gorhill]

The workaround fix for websocket can be implemented by any blocker. For example, AdGuard is implementing it -- and AdGuard devs contributed to improve the workaround fix[1]. Ideally all blockers would support it (the Chromium issue has been lingering for years, there is no reason to believe it will be fixed in the short term).

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/chromium-websocket-wrapper

[intense]

for ABP chrome, add:

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@@||brassyobedientcotangent.com^$script

[fanboy]

https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/1727#comment:18

[concerned]

I've recently seen several sites (no, not all. I'm fairly certain this is not the result of adware on my linux box) that have very persistant ads that I'm unable to get adblock to correctly block.

An example is: http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/05/new-study-shows-natural-causes-for-antarctic-sea-ice-growth/

The offending portions on this site are labeled

Sponsored by AdReclaim

but I'm not sure if that's been true of all of the sites I've seen with this behavior of late.

[concerned]

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@@||brassyobedientcotangent.com^$script

@@||dailycaller.com^$generichide

||outbrain.com^$domain=dailycaller.com

dailycaller.com##.OUTBRAIN

This blocked most of it. I then added the 3 lines from your post above and that got the rest.

Thank you!

[IsraeliAdblocker]

working for me, any idea about inserting this to main easylist?

[spikevega]

still seeing ads on chrome

i don't see a reason to insert it to the main list until fixed ...

[intense]

The filters above are working fine in chrome too (tested with ABP)
Disable all other blocking extensions, keep only 1 adblocker (disable ghostery, disconnect, other)

[smed79]

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@@||hitwastedgarden.com^$script

[rhanajoy]

Hi! I'm seeing these Trending Now ads on

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http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/08/cnn-will-trump-follow-drudges-lead-and-question-hillarys-health-video/

, in AdBlock 3.1, all lists updated today, Chrome current version, after trying all of the filters suggested above. Is there some combination of them that I'm getting wrong?

[intense]

in ABP for chrome (last dev build) it works now (websocket patch landed)

[awroyal]

dailycaller.com has numerous ads on the right side.

[intense]

if you are using AB it's due to websocket crap. ABP (last dev build) added websocket support.

[smed79]

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/cdn-cgi/pe/bag2?*nr-data.net

/cdn-cgi/pe/bag2?*adsnative.com

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@@||dailycaller.com^$generichide

@@||ad8k.com^$script,domain=dailycaller.com

/cdn-cgi/pe/bag2?*.outbrain.com$domain=dailycaller.com

dailycaller.com#@#a[onmousedown^="this.href='http://paid.outbrain.com/network/redir?"][target="_blank"]

[rhanajoy]

Those rules are working here, @smed79, thanks!