Ad Block Pop Up "Targeted messages"

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moonbow359
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Ad Block Pop Up "Targeted messages"

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All of a sudden, I get a pop-up from Ad Block Plus whenever I go to a new page. It tells me that this page has ads targeting Ad Block Plus users and do I want to allow or block. I can't get rid of this thing!
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mapx
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Re: Ad Block Pop Up

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Go into options, filter lists, disable this list: "Adblock Warning Removal List"
- eventually restart chrome and test again
BFG
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Re: Ad Block Pop Up

Post by BFG »

Getting the same problem with same message on multiple machines and multiple users, all using Chrome on Windows and Ubuntu. The solution above doesn't work.

In Options, Filter Lists:

Adblock Warning Removal List already has Enabled unchecked, but the setting is not respected.

Also if the pop-up is dismissed, it comes back for the same site on page refresh. E.g. when browsing gmail, shows on first page load. Dismiss. Click into an email to read, pop-up shows again.
For some users it re-occurs for every click on gmail

Definitely seems like a bug.

The only way to avoid is to disable adblock for that site.
UpAndAtEm
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Re: Ad Block Pop Up

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mapx wrote:Go into options, filter lists, disable this list: "Adblock Warning Removal List"
- eventually restart chrome and test again
I've had a look and the "Adblock Warning Removal List" is already disabled.
What about the "easy list"? Shall I disabled it?
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mapx
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No, easylist ...is the main list without it ABP = 0

Try removing completely (not only disabling) "Adblock Warning Removal List", restart chrome, see what happens

What's your chrome version ?
ABP stable or dev build ? (and what version)
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mapx
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Re: Ad Block Pop Up

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It was opened a ticket on the bug tracker
https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/6091

workaround ? install last dev build:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... ifjjdoepkn

and disable the current ABP
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mapx
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Re: Ad Block Pop Up "Targeted messages"

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Well, as you can see from the ticket, it was a wrtong rule in that special list. It was removed now and you can still use the stable build of ABP.
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