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Block new twitch ads #534

Closed extesy closed 6 years ago

extesy commented 8 years ago

According to https://www.reddit.com/r/ublock/comments/3cijxr/allowing_twitch_ads/ this new filter is needed to block new twitch ads:

||d2f8tie0ouoft.cloudfront.net$object,domain=www.twitch.tv

Betsy25 commented 8 years ago

Specs:

Firefox nightly 42 Win7 x64 latest Ublock Origin dev version.

Weird, I'm using the default lists, and watch twitch.tv almost daily, and I don't remember ever seeing any ad....

gorhill commented 8 years ago

According to https://www.reddit.com/r/ublock/comments/3cijxr/allowing_twitch_ads/ this new filter is needed to block new twitch ads

This should be brought up to EasyList maintainers: https://forums.lanik.us/viewforum.php?f=62.

But they will need a case to reproduce. I could not reproduce on my side. A reproducible case is required to add a filter, whether here or on EasyList forum.

lewisje commented 8 years ago

Let's make it more general when you do send your idea to EasyList:

||d2f8tie0ouoft.cloudfront.net^$object,domain=twitch.tv

extesy commented 8 years ago

I saw ads on twitch in the last few days, with many uBlock filters enabled, included all easylist ones. This custom filter from reddit helped remove them.

gorhill commented 8 years ago

Seen on Adblock Plus forum: "Twitch.tv's new HTML 5 player prevents ads from being block".

So apparently there is a new HTML5 player out there for TwitchTV, and this is where the issue would be. When I tried TwitchTV, there was no option for an HTML5 player, I was served with the message that I needed to install Flash to watch videos (Flash is disabled in my browser).

This new HTML5 player is likely the reason for those new ads appearing on TwitchTV. I don't know how to force TwitchTV to use this HTML5 player though.

extesy commented 8 years ago

Looks like twitch is a/b testing this new html5 player right now. I get it on one machine but not on another, using the same account. No idea how to force enable it.

gorhill commented 8 years ago

I still can't make the site use HTML5 player on my side.

bevan-philip commented 7 years ago

I can report that this issue is still occurring to me. https://www.twitch.tv/esl_csgo (The ads occur during timeouts during the stream).

I got an ad for an Amazon series, which could be useful seeing as how Amazon is the owner of Twitch, and therefore is a 1st party.

Hrxn commented 7 years ago

Wait a second.. You can't block ads that are part of the stream itself. Don't know why there should be an Amazon ad on the ESL channel, but I wouldn't rule that one out. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that ESL has ads in the stream.

Before we can proceed here, we need to distinguish between these two types of ads here.

bevan-philip commented 7 years ago

This is not an ad that is a part of a stream. This was a Twitch ad, the type that streamers can configure to occur during breaks or so. It isn't a part of the actual video stream (i.e. if you put the video stream through an extractor like livestreamer/streamlink, it will not contain the ads i'm talking about), and it is clickable (to re-direct to the link).

The ad I received was for an Amazon original series (and Amazon Originals have been the majority of any ads I've received), ergo my suspicion that it was a 1st party ad bypassing the filter. I think I'm right on this regard due to this post: https://blog.twitch.tv/introducing-surestream-for-a-better-video-ad-experience-on-twitch-3ca5ce3287c#.mhjbtvkfd

In any case, I've had luck based on a filter that a reddit user suggested, which was: www.twitch.tv##.player-ad-overlay.player-overlay

Hrxn commented 7 years ago

Yes, correct in this case. Just tried with an empty browser profile and saw those Amazon ads on some Twitch streams.