Page 1 of 1

Blocking ads inside flash players

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:14 am
by OpenGG
Abp for Chrome can noway to block ads inside flash/java object since they are running in independent processes. So it rewrites the flashvars, blocking youtube ads in a unusual way, which should also works for some other flashvideo websites. Here is an ad-blocking extension focusing on Chinese flashvideo website, I read its code but haven't test it yet.

So would Abp for Chrome make these rewriting filters independent and subscribable, giving youtubes could change their HTML and inline-js every now and then?

Re: Blocking ads inside flash players

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:17 am
by OpenGG
The above-mentioned extension, blocking flash ads by rewriting flashvars.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/de ... ckllcifali

Re: Blocking ads inside flash players

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:26 pm
by Wladimir Palant
Having these rules served out via subscriptions doesn't sound like a great idea to me - it would probably be a security issue because it would allow subscription authors to do malicious things. So right now we have no choice but to use special solutions where it is worth it. I really hope that Google will fix the issue on their side.