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[ghajini]

URL(s) where the issue occurs

1. https://khabar.ndtv.com/news/bollywood/total-dhamaal-box-office-collection-day-27-ajay-devgn-anil-kapoor-madhuri-dixit-blockbuster-record-2010671?pfrom=home-topstories

2. try news at these ndtv.com sports.ndtv.com gadgets.ndtv.com food.ndtv.com swirlster.ndtv.com

Describe the issue

1. what went wrong currently(with default settings) block of taboola.com hides some legit news stories at bottom of page

2 how the page should be there should be no hide of legit content provided by taboola....also there should be blockage of sponsored ads by taboola

3. what steps you have done in order to solve problem also in order to unbreak news content at bottom of page if i allow taboola.com it brings back sponsored ads as well alongwith unblocking news content

Screenshot(s)

1.

how the page looks with default settings https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20338483/54755250-76882400-4bdd-11e9-9855-5736288dfc7f.jpg

2. You need to allow taboola in order to see news content at bottom of page but this invites sponsored.ads as well https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20338483/54755360-b64f0b80-4bdd-11e9-81e0-629bfb65e672.png

Versions

• Browser/version: firefox android 66
• uBlock Origin version: 1.18.6

Settings

• uBO's default settings pls try indian ip if you can't reproduce....

  Notes

issue you can reproduce on mobile device only i.e. firefox android

@Alex-302 adguard browser extension for firefox android also suffers from this breakage @jspenguin2017 @okiehsch

[ghajini]

so it requires taboola to be unblocked...is it case of interest here https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/pull/10149

[mapx-]

taboola has many uses, a lot of legitimate ones, so needing to be unblocked but keep blocked the various logs / tracking / privacy stuff

[uBlock-user]

so it requires taboola to be unblocked...

A mere exception !== site unblocked

[ghajini]

same case here,bottom articles not loaded

https://ndtv.in/india-news/amid-hikes-corona-cases-in-bengal-after-durga-puja-center-warns-mamata-govt-2589078#pfrom=home-khabar_topstories

the one marked are stories https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20338483/138945640-229a8b83-67bb-4f30-8eb2-d514e9c01c7b.png

[uBlock-user]

Those are fake articles masquerading as site articles, clicking on the links leads you through taboola's link redirection crap and they're all under Taboola Feed category. Should stay blocked.

[mapx-]

test

@@||cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/ndtv-khabar/loader.js$script,domain=ndtv.in
@@||taboola.com/nr/ndtv-khabar/newsroom.js$script,domain=ndtv.in
@@||cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/impl.$script,domain=ndtv.in
@@||trc.taboola.com/ndtv-khabar/trc/*/json$xhr,domain=ndtv.in
ndtv.in##.add__txt
ndtv.in#@##taboola-below-article-thumbnails

[ghajini]

that worked but some stories eg https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20338483/138950759-2ec8e6d8-2219-4ffc-b7d2-7ab502af688c.png are legit to be unblocked....

@uBlock-user can you pinpoint a/c to you which are fake and legit?

we really need taboola to be blocked alongwith articles unblocked, do you have fix for such w/o privacy break?

[uBlock-user]

alongwith articles unblocked

The articles/stories you're mentioning are appearing under Taboola Feed category on the desktop, they're fake, not real. You're misled into believing that they're real, they're not site articles, neither provided by site itself. Taboola's known to insert article ads and fake articles for their customers. That's what you're seeing, click on the video you highlighted yourself and you will be send to Taboola's link redirection crap first.

[ghajini]

that i know, some url >clickthrough taboola > legit article this is how news site is serving the content but if we block taboola completely, can't access some legit news articles

[uBlock-user]

I have taboola blocked completely and I can see all the site's articles, so I don't know what you mean by legit news articles. Articles coming from taboola are NOT legit, period. Anyways, believe what you will.