Unable to block tricky ad

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michaeliv
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Unable to block tricky ad

Post by michaeliv »

Hello, I'm trying to block the ad that shows at the top of the page on http://www.extremetech.com/
I'm using Google Chrome on Windows 8 if it makes any difference.
Here is the one that I'm talking about http://i.imgur.com/DEcelqY.png
I've tried creating a rule that blocks 'extremetech.com###bannerad' and that works, the ad is blocked temporarily, but when I refresh the page the ad re-appears, with the same ID (extremetech.com###bannerad).
This seems to be specially designed to circumvent AdBlock Plus. It does not load at startup, there's a 1-2 second delay before it loads.

Can someone confirm, perhaps using other browsers ? Are there any solutions to block this, currently ?

Thanks!
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version365
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Re: Unable to block tricky ad

Post by version365 »

This is actually Chrome specific, because I am seeing no such banner in Firefox.

I have seen this same chrome-specific issue in some other sites like opensubtitles.org
michaeliv
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Re: Unable to block tricky ad

Post by michaeliv »

Thanks for your reply. Is there anywhere I can file a 'bug report' or similar, so that the developers would take a look at this and perhaps fix in future versions ?
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mapx
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Re: Unable to block tricky ad

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I already reported the issue on the bug tracker
https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/3699

feel free adding your own comments if you want
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