Adbrite ads

[threepwood]

Hi, I've been getting some AdBrite ads since using Adthwart and more recently with ABP for Chrome. When I used ABP on Firefox it always blocked them.

Page is http://mumble.sourceforge.net





It's somewhat random, I'd say that the ad shows up about 60% or 70% of the time I visit the page. It also happened with another page (that I don't recall the address now) with the same AdBrite ads. Can't pickup the element in easy create filter mode btw.

[Wladimir Palant]

Which filter lists are you subscribed to? Also, which Chrome version?

I tried to reproduce this issue but this ad is blocked reliably for me.

[threepwood]

Sorry, forgot to mention it.

Chrome 8.0.552.224

Filters:

- EasyList
- Fanboy's Español/Português supplement
- Recommended filters for Google Chrome


In FF 3.6 I use Fanboy's Main List and Fanboy's Español/Português supplement and it blocks it everytime.

[Wladimir Palant]

Yes, but Adblock Plus for Chrome isn't anywhere near as efficient as Adblock Plus for Firefox yet.

It seems that the cause of your issue is a timing problem - when I load the same page from a local server the adbrite script is blocked by Adblock Plus but it runs anyway. Seems to be a WebKit bug.

Edit: And now I cannot reproduce it any longer

[Wladimir Palant]

Ok, I got confused, the issue is actually pretty simple. This script loads too early, Adblock Plus doesn't have its data yet and cannot block it.

[Wladimir Palant]

The following filter can be added as work-around:

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##iframe[name^="AdbriteFrame"]

Unfortunately, I'm not sure there is another solution - we are fighting Chrome's architecture here.

[threepwood]

ahhhh.. now I understand the randomness of it showing up.

Thanks for the input

[Michael]

Would the filter adbrite.com##html also remove the unwanted content?

[Wladimir Palant]

No, it is an about:blank frame, the script writes dynamically into it.

[Michael]

Added (https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/d63cdc63cab0)

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##iframe[name^="AdbriteFrame"]