Youtube ads are not being clicked/collected

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Youtube ads are not being clicked/collected #2465

Open dave90dave opened 7 months ago

dave90dave commented 7 months ago

What type of Ad is not being collected

Video
Mid-roll Video Ad

URL(s) where the ads appear.

www.youtube.com

Your location/country.

netherlands

Screenshot(s) of uncollected ads (disable AdNauseam if they are being correctly hidden)

none are being blocked

dhowe commented 7 months ago

ads are not being blocked, or not being clicked ?

dave90dave commented 7 months ago

Hi @dhowe It blocks the ads correctly, but it doesn't click them.

Also the ads on the side of the video are not being clicked. (but are correctly being blocked)

dave90dave commented 7 months ago

Here you see the result with the adnouseam clicker enabled, and adblockers disabled:

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It works fine on other websites.

dave90dave commented 7 months ago

And I have the same problem with Adsense ads on third party websites

dave90dave commented 7 months ago

This is google adsense on www.funda.nl Ad blocking works, but collecting and clicking doesn't.

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dave90dave commented 7 months ago

I use Brave web browser by the way.

mneunomne commented 7 months ago

Sadly it is very hard to collect ads from youtube, even if we implement the parser, it changes so often that it's almost impossible to keep up. Plus the fact that the method of ad blocking on youtube usually are not cosmetic, but rather by filtering requests, and overwriting functions with scriptlets.

mneunomne commented 7 months ago

This is google adsense on www.funda.nl

I'll take a look on this one.

dave90dave commented 7 months ago

Hi @mneunomne

I tried to reproduce it again, with version AdNauseam 3.19.0 (chromium package)

I found the following:

The extension is not working well in the Brave browser, when strict blocking in AdNauseam is enabled. Probably it somehow conflicts with the built in ad-blocker that can not be removed. But when active blocking in AdNauseam is enabled, it works fine.
When I use microsoft edge, it only clicks ads correctly when I enable 'Hide ads'. If I don't enable 'Hide ads' it will show the ads, but will not click them.

Maybe the strict blocking mode should be checked specifically, since it appears to break the extension in Brave browser.