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Issue URL (Ads)

https://www.imdb.com/

Comment

Banner ad beneath site search bar is not blocked by Adguard Username: @grwthomps

Screenshots

Screenshot 1


System configuration

Information	Value
AdGuard product:	AdGuard for Mac v2.13.0.1558 release
System version:	Sonoma 14.4 (23E214)
Browser:	Safari
License type:	paid
Stealth mode options:	Block Push API, Block Location API, Block Java, Hide your search queries, Send Do-Not-Track header, Hide your Referrer from third-parties, Hide your User-Agent, Remove X-Client-Data header from HTTP requests, Self-destructing third-party cookies (180), Block trackers
DNS filtering:	server: https://dns.adguard-dns.com/dns-query filters: https://filters.adtidy.org/mac_v2/filters/15.txt
Filters:	Ad Blocking: AdGuard Base Privacy: AdGuard Tracking Protection, EasyPrivacy Social Widgets: AdGuard Social Media Annoyances: AdGuard Popups, AdGuard Other Annoyances, AdGuard Widgets Other: AdGuard DNS
Userscripts:	AdGuard Extra (url: https://userscripts.adtidy.org/release/adguard-extra/1.0/adguard-extra.user.js)
Other extensions used:	1Password

[grwthomps]

@jellizaveta absolutely, do you mean using File > Save As... in Safari? It has 2 options for format: Page Source and Web Archive. Which option should I use?

[grwthomps]

Sent

[grwthomps]

Now it looks like this:

[grwthomps]

Still the same as the previous picture with the white rectangle. I tried with only imdb.com##.ipc-page-content-container > section.ipc-page-background:has(iframe[title="Advertisement"]) enabled and with both that and imdb.com###imdb-embeddable enabled, deleting imdb website data in between each attempt.

[AdamWr]

I see ads only if I disable AdGuard. I suppose that the problem might be that HTTPS filtering doesn't work on this website for some reason, but I'm just guessing.

@grwthomps Could you please add this rule:

imdb.com##body

to user rules. Whole content of this website should be hidden, it's just for test purpose to check if HTTPS filtering and element hiding rules work correctly.

[grwthomps]

So I can confirm that adblocking works with https filtering enabled and also no user rules are needed.

Sorry, I definitely should have stated that I had disabled https filtering a while back because of issues I was having with some apps not working with it enabled. I went back through the reporting prompts to make sure I didn't miss a question about https filtering but I didn't see one. Maybe this is a question that should be added to the report prompts asked before an issue is created? I feel like it could save a lot of trouble.

Regardless, thank you both for your help. Sorry again.

[grwthomps]

Following up, as a test I completely uninstalled adguard for mac and the adguard assistant extension for Safari. Then I installed just the adguard for safari browser extension without adguard for mac or adguard assistant. It seems to block ads within Safari better than adguard for mac with adguard assistant (with https filtering off that is).

Am I understanding correctly that the benefit of adguard for mac is that it blocks things outside of Safari, has dns filtering, and provides a little more blocking with https filtering enabled?

Since https filtering causes me some issues and I primarily care about blocking ads within Safari, I might just use the basic adguard for safari extension rather than turning https filtering on/off.