Yavli ads (promoted content from the web)

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Hahnchen

Yavli ads (promoted content from the web)

Post by Hahnchen »

Yavli.com are the worst advertisements on the web. They're similar to Outbrain and Taboola style "related links" at the bottom of articles, but worse. None of it is content, 100% ads, always irrelevant to the article. They're shilling get-rick-quick schemes, or diet pills, or penny auctions.

It's difficult blocking these ads, because each website running these ads seems to host the ads themselves on a custom domain name. When you access the domain name hosting the ads directly, you see the words, "Hi, I am your new HeroFW app!"

For example

http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/20/what- ... ck-n-roll/ hosts the ads at http://opner.co
http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/03/google ... lay-store/ hosts the ads at http://rlex.org

And here's a screenshot of the ads in question - http://imgur.com/NbXStQ5
Note how the testosterone supplement ad uses a totally unrelated image which is meant to pique your disgust and curiosity.

It'd be great if we could get some filters to work across all implementations of Yavli.
hahnchen

Re: Yavli filters

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stanmoor

Re: Yavli filters

Post by stanmoor »

How are these sites able to get around the filter, and who is providing the service? theladbible.com and uniladmag.com also have this - the ads are the exact same on every site. I think the DailyMail also has it too...
hahnchen

Re: Yavli filters

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spu0s

Re: Yavli filters

Post by spu0s »

They all share the same IP - 206.190.151.63
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YAVLI ads "Promoted Content From The Web" unblockable ads

Post by NobleUplift »

Over the past few months, I've noticed a string of ads that I kept blocking, but that I would see again and have to re-block. After about three I noticed what their plan was for keeping their ads immune from ad blockers—they cycle through different domain names. This is what the ads usually look like:

http://i.imgur.com/08lS8VZ.png

The standard format for their URLs is usually something like this:

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http://lunio.net/wc/226/2639/2513/2513,1509,1545,2597.html
Now I don't know if /wc/ can be blocked in a filter or if it might disrupt other websites using that path segment. What I've been doing is blocking each domain. So far I have quite a few:

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||frevi.net/
||exlpor.com/
||discvr.net/
||q3sift.com/
||qzsccm.com/
||zomri.net/
||akamai.net/
||lunio.net/
||contentr.net/
||topdi.net/
||hobri.net/
A couple of these are still up, whereas others seem to no longer serve a purpose for them (maybe blacklisted). Do these exist in any current filters, and if not can we create a new filter to blacklist all of these?
Last edited by NobleUplift on Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:04 pm, edited 5 times in total.
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Re: "Promoted Content From The Web" unblockable ads

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add
206.190.151.63

to a peerblock list (with http blocked)

http://www.peerblock.com/userguide/how_ ... atinglists
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Re: "Promoted Content From The Web" unblockable ads

Post by fanboy »

Force an update of Easylist, see if it helps
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Re: Yavli filters

Post by duskwuff »

I don't like CSS rules, but every instance of Yavli I've seen uses the same cryptic class name on the injected elements:

##DIV.gbqfwa
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