timesofindia.indiatimes.com

[NanoMeow]

Basic Information

Test link: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/2019-lok-sabha-elections-this-is-why-congresss-first-list-is-unique/articleshow/68336492.cms Category: ads Reported from: India Template version: 2

User Environment

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.67 Safari/537.36 Extension: Nano Defender 15.0.0.108

Additional Message

[ghajini]

@mapx-

A} Firefox android, ublock origin 1.18.4

1. From around the web ads

https://m.timesofindia.com/india/ambani-scion-akash-weds-shloka-mehta-in-glittering-celeb-filled-ceremony/articleshow/68337344.cms

2. Promoted stories ads

https://m.economictimes.com/industry/transportation/railways/jindal-rail-infra-poised-to-get-rs-18-35-crore-in-an-arbitration-case/articleshow/68322945.cms

3. New homepage ads in between articles

m.timesofindia.com STR: Directly going to m.timesofindia.com , you will not reproduce this issue.. for that Just go to homepage, Click any article, And then click on TOI thumbnail at top of page to return to homepage site you will see ads

B} Desktop browsers issue still persist on other toi network sites...

1. Ads https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/chinas-gdp-growth-pace-was-inflated-for-nine-years-study-finds/articleshow/68330636.cms

2. promoted stories over here

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/former-navy-chief-writes-to-election-commission-to-stop-misuse-of-armed-forces-in-polls-363444.html

3. Sometimes ads are in between articles

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/

see https://github.com/LiCybora/NanoDefenderFirefox/issues/113

[ghajini]

Commit https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/516ea7d12348595592ed47b7e770a5d7d2a52ab1 doesn't help https://github.com/NanoMeow/QuickReports/issues/782#issuecomment-471248583

all ads are columbia network ads😠😈 Its crap😥

[mapx-]

I cannot reproduce all the ads (I'm using a FF extension to simulate FF on mobile)

test these filters

m.economictimes.com##H2:has-text(/Promoted/) + DIV
m.economictimes.com##h2:has-text(/Promoted/)
||m.economictimes.com/mpetat/commons/images/rbc-red.png$image

economictimes.indiatimes.com##div h2:has(span:matches-css-before(content: /Sponsored/))
economictimes.indiatimes.com##div h2:has(span:matches-css-before(content: /Sponsored/)) + div

indiatimes.com##h2:has-text(/Promoted/) + div
indiatimes.com##h2:has-text(/Promoted/)
||media.indiatimes.in/idthat/commons/images/rbc-gray.png$image

indiatimes.com##[onclick] h5:has-text(/Ad/):xpath(../../..)

[ghajini]

Issue still persist at m.timesofindia.com Described at https://github.com/NanoMeow/QuickReports/issues/782#issuecomment-471248583

[mapx-]

as I said not all are reproducible, for m.times I fixed (test it) point 2

[mapx-]

I added the filters above

[ghajini]

May be someone with Firefox android device help us as issue is still reproducible at m.timesofindia.com (URL is never of domain indiatimes.com on Firefox android) Thanks for other fixes and your time... Btw,Why no one have android😋

[ghajini]

@mapx- see if this helps you Here is the way to reproduce regarding m.timesofindia.com 1. Install this extension on your firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher-revived/

2. Set user agent as android

3. Visit m.timesofindia.com and click any article you will see from around the web ads at bottom of article

4. Click on TOI thumbnail at top you will see homepage ads in between articles I shown at https://github.com/NanoMeow/QuickReports/issues/782#issuecomment-471248583

[mapx-]

I installed the addon but still ... like before => no from around the web section. Could I'm served other content (geo-based stuff ?)

[ghajini]

Video STR https://streamable.com/8z94n ANd yes you are true IP other than India will not reproduce ads

So try Indian IP with user agent android

[mapx-]

test: if you want to hide the whole from around the web section

m.timesofindia.com##.promobox

only the Ad: parts

m.timesofindia.com##.brand_ctn:has-text(/Ad:/):xpath(../..)

[ghajini]

1. m.timesofindia.com##.brand_ctn:has-text(/Ad:/):xpath(../..) will fix from around the web ads

2. What about homepage ads, STR- go to homepage, click any article then click TOI thumbnail at top left to return to homepage, you will see ads

[jspenguin2017]

I can reproduce ads on https://m.timesofindia.com/ and ads placeholders on https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/former-navy-chief-writes-to-election-commission-to-stop-misuse-of-armed-forces-in-polls-363444.html, but not the rest.

[mapx-]

@ghajini does this work m.timesofindia.com##span:has-text(/Ad:/):xpath(../..)

[ghajini]

It does hide very 1St ad top one but then when you scroll below you still see ads in between articles

[ghajini]

Can be considered fixed, thanks