Ads not being blocked on Twitch

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toxicman007
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Ads not being blocked on Twitch

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I have never had problems with adblock plus before but just a few days ago ads on Twitch.tv were no longer being blocked. All ads show, not just on certain streams. I do not have Twitch whitelisted and never have.
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mapx
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Re: Ads not being blocked on Twitch

Post by mapx »

it seems some streams have the ads included in the stream itself, so ... there is nothing to do in this case.
hieronymusdesign
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Re: Ads not being blocked on Twitch

Post by hieronymusdesign »

Some findings about the new ad system twitch is using.

Scenario:

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https://www.twitch.tv/imaqtpie
Is a streamer using the latest ad injection used by twitch. (

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https://blog.twitch.tv/introducing-surestream-for-a-better-video-ad-experience-on-twitch-3ca5ce3287c#.j739qruqm
)

Scenario 1:
- Safari 10.0.3
- Adblock plus 1.12.4
- Filter list used EasyList
- No custom filters
- Using HTML 5 Player

Not seeing any ads. Looking in the console. Safari is blocking:
"XMLHttpRequest cannot load

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https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/empty-ads/empty_vast.xml
. Origin

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https://imasdk.googleapis.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin
."

Scenario2:
- Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit)
- Adblock plus 1.12.4
- Filter list used Easylist
- No custom filters

Not seeing ads at the start of the stream. But do see ads activated by the streamer.

Scenario2 not seeing anymore ads after adding these 4 custom filters.

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||spade.twitch.tv
||client-event-reporter.twitch.tv
||pubster.twitch.tv/publish
||api.mixpanel.com
Perhaps you can use these also ?

Regards Jerome
hieronymusdesign
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Re: Ads not being blocked on Twitch

Post by hieronymusdesign »

Update:

Now ads are also played through safari.
These filters don't work anymore mentioned above.

Back to the drawing table....

Regards Jerome
richwasheremore
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Re: Ads not being blocked on Twitch

Post by richwasheremore »

adblock does work on twitch you just cant use html5 check my vid for proof - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKfMpqFTzHc
ExplorerWhiz
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Re: Ads not being blocked on Twitch

Post by ExplorerWhiz »

Thank you it was very helpful.
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tirael44
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Re: Ads not being blocked on Twitch

Post by tirael44 »

Also sometimes here is problem with donation alerts, it blocks too in a many regions
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