emag.ro: ads

[Silveeny]

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URL(s) where the issue occurs.

https://www.emag.ro/

Description

This is one of the most famous retailers in Hungary/Romania/Bulgaria where Amazon has not expanded. As a new thing, when you search for stuff, it has items that are Promoted / Sponsored. These are internal ads by the website - but none the less, I think most people would appreciate if we could get rid of them. What bothers me is promoted items that appear in the search. They have almost never a purpose. They even have a category of Promoted items, which in general have no relevance to your search, but they slam them through the search results at random points. I checked the rules, but nothing was stated about this.

Other extensions used

none

Screenshot(s)

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Configuration

Details

```yaml uBlock Origin: 1.58.0 Firefox: 126 filterset (summary): network: 148590 cosmetic: 205509 scriptlet: 32984 html: 2085 listset (total-discarded, last-updated): added: adguard-social: 23118-47, 3d.2h.34m fanboy-cookiemonster: 51072-183, 6h.29m fanboy-social: 16100-732, 1d.7h.29m ublock-annoyances: 5850-63, 3h.29m Δ ROU-1: 1385-41, 1d.10h.51m ublock-quick-fixes: 163-72, 3h.29m Δ adguard-cookies: 29749-3763, 3d.2h.34m adguard-popup-overlays: 27489-1108, 3d.2h.34m adguard-mobile-app-banners: 5240-24, 3d.2h.34m adguard-other-annoyances: 14406-476, 3d.2h.34m adguard-widgets: 2512-14, 3d.2h.34m easylist-annoyances: 4638-305, 2d.6h.32m [5 lists not shown]: [too many] default: user-filters: 5-0, never ublock-filters: 38217-116, 3h.29m Δ ublock-badware: 8882-0, 3h.29m Δ ublock-privacy: 920-0, 3h.29m Δ ublock-unbreak: 2348-0, 3h.29m Δ easylist: 87299-165, 3h.29m Δ easyprivacy: 50983-64, 3h.29m Δ urlhaus-1: 13835-1, 8h.29m plowe-0: 3726-1159, 8d.11h.27m filterset (user): [array of 5 redacted] trustedset: added: [array of 63 redacted] userSettings: advancedUserEnabled: true hiddenSettings: [none] supportStats: allReadyAfter: 1884 ms maxAssetCacheWait: 1155 ms cacheBackend: indexedDB popupPanel: blocked: 22 network: bing.com: 1 creativecdn.com: 1 criteo.com: 1 doubleclick.net: 1 facebook.net: 1 google-analytics.com: 2 google.com: 1 googletagmanager.com: 2 onesignal.com: 2 pinimg.com: 1 profitshare.ro: 1 salesforce.com: 1 sc-static.net: 1 sentry.io: 5 tiktok.com: 1 extended: ##.ad-text ##.adSense ##.adBlock ##.adContent ##.gdpr-cookie-banner ##.js-gdpr-cookie-banner ##.ns-wrap-bottom-right ##body .gdpr-cookie-banner ##.widget-newsletter ##.grecaptcha-badge ##.grecaptcha-badge[data-style] ##+js(set-constant, rwt, noopFunc) ```

[stephenhawk8054]

||sapi.emag.ro/recommendations/$xhr,1p

@mapx- For Romanian list?

[mapx-]

testing the filter on home page => breakage

[stephenhawk8054]

Hmm... How about this?

||sapi.emag.ro/recommendations/*zones=adss$xhr,1p

[mapx-]

@Silveeny where can I see "a category of Promoted items" ? link ?

on a specific search, for example "masina de tuns" I see that the advertised items are correctly placed in that category

[mapx-]

@stephenhawk8054 it seems working on specific items search, here for example:

https://www.emag.ro/search/masina%20de%20tuns?ref=trending

[mapx-]

for Hungary is working too

||sapi.emag.*/recommendations/*zones=adss$xhr,1p

maybe we could add it to our annoyances list

[stephenhawk8054]

I think the last letter of adss means it's for search. For this link https://www.emag.ro/laptopuri/filter/tip-laptop-f7882,2in1-v-4670931/c?ref=subcat_0_fashion-grid_0 it's zones=adsl, so I think using zones=ads would cover better

/recommendations/*zones=ads$xhr,1p,to=sapi.emag.*

[mapx-]

did you get that section "Produse promovate" ?

[stephenhawk8054]

did you get that section "Produse promovate" ?

Hmm... I can't find that section. Which link did you see it?

[mapx-]

However, the promoted items are not really ads, you could find double items (a "normal" item and a promoted one which is the same) => annoyance

[mapx-]

I saw "Produse promovate" section in OP screenshot ("They even have a category of Promoted items")

[stephenhawk8054]

I saw "Produse promovate" section in OP screenshot ("They even have a category of Promoted items")

Ah I see. Looks like it occurs in each product page: https://www.emag.ro/husa-tip-carte-compatibila-cu-samsung-galaxy-a13-5g-a04s-model-smart-book-case-material-textil-negru-5903396133381/pd/D8G49QMBM/

This one works for me

emag.*##+js(json-prune-fetch-response, data, data.*.ads_ranker, propsToMatch, /recommendations/by-slot)

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However, the promoted items are not really ads, you could find double items (a "normal" item and a promoted one which is the same) => annoyance

Yeah, it happens with many online shops. Usually the ones with ads will come with UUID tracking paramters, for example

https://www.emag.ro/husa-pentru-samsung-galaxy-a54-tip-carte-skyddar-eco-view-leather-negru-kf2311456/pd/D26CB8MBM/?ref=sponsored_products_p_r_ov_5_1&provider=rec-ads&recid=recads_3_b8e2abe184e687d9c36ca8132a52c40128640a009c5ccda6222c6874cb9e33f1_1716798413&scenario_ID=3&aid=395f7a32-f1fa-11ee-a490-0229d980bfff&oid=118705452

I think if there's duplicated item (one with ads and one without ads), it's safer to remove than if that product only occurs once.

[mapx-]

instead of the json filter does this work for you ?

emag.*##.container:has([data-tracking-alias^="sponsored_products"])

[stephenhawk8054]

It works too