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Yandex Image Search showing ads among search results.

Open BD9Max opened this issue 7 months ago β€’ 4 comments

How to block the annoying?

This is on Android chromium browser mobile display not desktop.

When using Yandex search it connects (DNS) to:

yastatic.net favicon.yandex.net avatars.mds.yandex.net

That are not blocked by HOSTS file(s).

Edit: Connects also to

yandex.ru (despite using yandex.com) yandex-images.clstorage.net

I have tried all but blocking yandex.ru to get rid of ads :|

BD9Max avatar May 08 '25 05:05 BD9Max

Hello! Thank you for opening your first issue in this repo. It’s people like you who make these host files better!

welcome[bot] avatar May 08 '25 05:05 welcome[bot]

Thank you for this @DB9-max.

Can you please re-write the above ⬆️ so it's clear what you think should be blocked?

Because presently, that's not clear.

StevenBlack avatar May 08 '25 14:05 StevenBlack

Block ads in Yandex (.com) Image Search results.

Ads appear 1) between results and when clicking 2) open a result info panel.

(Ads appear when using mobile page view in a browser. But most likely Yandex shows ads in desktop view too.)

BD9Max avatar May 08 '25 15:05 BD9Max

@DB9-max I'm sorry I may have been unclear. I don't care where the ads appear on Yandex πŸ˜„

The text in the first panel above ⬆️ is unstructured, unclear, and can be interpreted in many different ways. It makes no sense.

Tell me exactly which domain(s) you suggest we block, and why you think that. I don't want a rambling narrative about "it connects (DNS)" β€” EVERYTHING goes through DNS.

Just keep it simple.

StevenBlack avatar May 08 '25 20:05 StevenBlack