Ad blocker fail

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paul1149
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Ad blocker fail

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If you look at an item page on ebay, you will be presented with an ad on the right side. A typical ad url would be:

http://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safefr ... w.ebay.com

If I use the built-in ad blocker to hit the ad, it works only until the next page load. Then the ad is back. Even if I use a wildcard, the ad always returns:

http://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safeframe*

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a failure of the blocker?

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Re: Ad blocker fail

Post by 7bfb4bef »

I believe this is a limitation of the ad-blockers.

I have the SAME problems using any or all AD-BLOCKING add-on to Chrome or Firefox (Adblock Plus, Ghostery, or Abine's BLUR) separate or concurrently.

Even with uMatrix installed/running I can NOT get these pesky ads to go away.

Google wants their AD $$$.

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Re: Ad blocker fail

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Ublock Origin seems to nail it.

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Re: Ad blocker fail

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Mea culpa. I forgot that I had disabled the ad blocker on the ebay domain for some reason. Working now.

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