Yahoo.com not being blocked about blockparty HOT 12 CLOSED

Ok. Typing ads.yahoo.com, beap-gc.yahoo.com in Safari returns about:blank, which is good.

But going to news.yahoo.com.hk and all ads from the above addresses aren't blocked.

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Thanks for finding this issue.

By the way, it is not ideal to block ads.yahoo.com, etc if the URL was typed directly in Safari. I will be pushing a fix which addresses this issue.

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It seems that no one (Freedom, ad-blocker, safari blocker, 1blocker, purify, just content, adblocker, crystal, adblocker) manage to block ads in news.yahoo.com.hk

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Impressive work by Yahoo! :)

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I see that ads are being blocked now on news.yahoo.com.hk. Feel free to re-open this issue if you are still seeing the ads.

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Those advertisements are not coming from a script, but more of a fancy web server proxy injection.

I recently discovered they're coming from "beap.gemini.yahoo.com". If you add this block rule, the advertisements will no longer be clickable. Unfortunately, blocking images will break the site.

I'm also impressed with their work.

{
 "trigger": {
 "url-filter": "beap.gemini.yahoo.com"
 },
 "action": {
 "type": "block"
 }
}

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Good find. Will you be able to submit a PR to the block list with this rule?

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You're gonna love this. It's the "load-type" : ["third-party"] that's allowing ads.

Adding first-party seems redundant. So, I completely removed load-type all together. Probably not the best decision, but she works!

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I added beap.gemini.yahoo.com into the block list and tried before I submit this ticket.

@krishkumar it's still showing ads....

@matrixfox I'll check your suggestion and recompile tonight and try again

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@matrixfox if it works we have a winner! Would we be able to beat yahoo on this ;-)

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Thanks @matrixfox. Yeah first-party blocking rules are not ideal. The original website will not load anymore and it confuses users and developers alike.

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@krishkumar Sites works file for me...

P.s. Ugh, @krishkumar you're right. I'm too busy going from A to Z, I forget theres 24 letters in between.

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