dhowe
Detect text-based ads on Youtube
Describe the issue
AdNauseam don't detect ads on youtube. But the ads are block. Disable AdNauseam display ads, activate AdNauseam block ads as expect. But it will show "No Ads collected on this page (showing recent)" Other websites work properly, only noticed this on youtube.
One or more specific URLs where the issue occurs
https://www.youtube.com/
Screenshot in which the issue can be seen
Steps for anyone to reproduce the issue
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Your settings
- OS/version: Manjaro KDE 17.1.8 stable
- Browser/version: Firefox 59.0.2 (64-bit)
- AdNauseam version: AdNauseam v3.5.101 uBlock Originv1.14.14
- Other extensions you have installed: uGet integration, Trackmenot, Stylish, KeepassXC-Browser.
Your location/country
(If the issue is website specific, knowing your approximate location will help us to reproduce it) Thailand.
Did you mean ads that pop inside the video or also besides the video.
What I mean by beside the video is this https://imgur.com/3YQSBxH
Just to be clear ads inside and beside video are both block, just wondering if "beside video ads" are collected.
If it is by design, what is the reasoning for this choice of not collecting video ads? Just curious.
Would love for it to collect ads on videos if possible. 75% of my web usage is Youtube
I would like to add to this request and I would like to support YouTubers too when I block their ads. I watch a lot of youtube as well. Is this technically possible? If needed, I can contribute too. Point me to the relevant direction, please.
@cqx931 we should be able to block ads beside videos (see below) on youtube pages, yes?
@dhowe For me, all video sites including YouTube works. The static ads on the side, preroll ads, in-frame ads (e.g. when you pause a video) and animated ads are all blocked. However, none of them are "Detected" or "Clicked", which I hope AdNauseam can.
@WoodpeckerBaby Could you please provide more screenshots as well as links when you see each kind of ads? I don't think we can do much with video ads. But if they exist in a certain format with images and text, we can create youtube specific parsers.
Currently I can only find the ad that @dhowe sees on youtube home page, which adnauseam currently only hides but not collects.
Another example of a similar ad format that promotes youtube channels. Found on the side.
As Youtube represents a vast ad market, I think we should indeed create a custom parser for such ads (not mid-video ads, but those on the side) so that we can can successfully collect them.
@dhowe I have worked on it for a bit and its quite tricky. As it currently is, the ads are not being rendered so we can't collect them. I try to come up with the combination of exception so they can be rendered, and then we can collect&hide, but then the Video ads start showing up... I will keep trying but in the case of youtube is hard to separate Make the banner ads get rendered AND hide the video ads at the same time.
Okay, after a lot of tries seems that it is working, needs more testing to see if some ads wont go through after this.
Some youtube ads now are being collected yes. But it will not work on everycase, I have implemented only for the case of youtube banner ads on the side:
Ads that are displayed between videos are not possible for us to collect/click from my understanding.
Seems like it stoped collecting again... The tricky thing about this parser is that the div structure of the big websites like facebook/youtube/google changes quite often, I'll try to adapt it yet again.
Ideally these specific parsers should somehow also be able to be in the filters/adnauseam.txt so that this could be updated faster.
Ideally these specific parsers should somehow also be able to be in the filters/adnauseam.txt so that this could be updated faster.
Indeed, or a similar file that can be updated without a release -- would be a great feature, but not easy, and potentially insecure
Youtube ads are being collected, not as many as we probably can, but still are being collected.
I'll move this issue from milestone 3.15 to ongoing.