ABP is not blocking ads. "Block element" doesn't work.

[Paquito490]

Hello,

I'd appreciate if someone could help me figure out a potential bug with ABP in Chrome. I am currently using Chrome OS (version 61.0.3163.120). Prior to posting I read this article, forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=21766, and found need to make this post. As it seems, ads on this particular website (https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476125,00.asp) will load without a problem, even with Easylist enabled. There are no other extensions causing interference. As it appears, i cannot use the "block element" tool to manually remove the ads too because every time I use the tool, it will open but when once I click "Add" it does nothing. This used to work for me in the past, but it isn't doing anything now. Why is this tool not working and why is ABP having trouble blocking ads?

Thank you

[mapx]

There are new modern tricks the advertisers are using out there to inject their ads. Not all of them can be neutralized using the simple hiding filters but sometimes you need to kill the inline scripts used by those sites.
ABP has not implemented such measures / weapons, so in these cases you could give a try to some other adblockers (like uBo - ublock origin).

For the page you are talking about: I cannot reproduce those ads.

[nigerianmandingoman]

Does it here too (

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masteroverwatch com

) I'm beginning to think AdBlock will be useless pretty soon.

[utomo]

I believe ABP will work on this and imprve the product

[lewisje]

I haven't heard about ABP figuring out how to do some of the things that uBlock Origin does, like blocking inline scripts, or redirecting certain resources to neutralized versions that implement the same APIs.