Twitter ads not being blocked
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Hello,
The ad blocker works great on every website that I visit... except Twitter. Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin blocks ads on Twitter without any issues. I tried adding a variety of custom sources, but none of them have done the trick.
Any ideas what might be the issue?
By the way, I really like this browser for Android! It's excellent. Thanks to its creators for making it.
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Look at the filter lists you're using in uBlock Origin and add them to Vivaldi's blocker. UBO isn't doing anything special to choose what to block‡, unless you've created custom filters, that's all driven by the third-party filter lists you subscribed to. So simply add the same ones and they should block the same stuff.
‡ The exception is the few uBlock lists that are available. They're basically EasyList filters that have been optimized for uBO. You can still add the uBlock filter lists to Vivaldi's blocker, I have, but a few of the filters may not work exactly the same as uBO has extended the ABP filter syntax. However, those ads will likely be caught by EasyList for the most part.
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I appreciate the response.
If you are using Android Vivaldi, would you be so kind to open Twitter and see if ads are blocked for you? I've tried adding some uBlock Origin lists but no luck so far. If you are NOT seeing ads, maybe you could also let me know which ones you have currently?
Thanks in advance!
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@sergeyfeldman it wants me to login and I don't have an account. But if you're blocking ads with another setup, just make the lists the same.
Here's what I use:
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That is perfect, thank you!
I'll do some experiment and will report back.
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Well none of those worked. Thanks anyway!
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@sergeyfeldman Just use uBO to figure out what's blocking the ad, it will save you lots of time.
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Yeah it seems to be the "cosmetic" filtering part of uBO, which I don't know if Vivaldi can do. Do you know if those are also the kind that Vivaldi Android can import?
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@sergeyfeldman No, Vivaldi's blocker doesn't currently do cosmetic filtering. It's also important to understand that anything removed with cosmetic filtering is not blocked, it's hidden. The network request still goes out and connects to the server, the content is still downloaded to your machine, if that content or the network request is used for tracking purposes it is still tracking, if it contains malware it has been downloaded to your machine. The effect is only visual, it's "cosmetic" and not functionally protective.
But, you can load your custom filters from uBO in Vivaldi. You just need to export them, or copy & paste into a file, and then import that into Vivaldi. In realizing looking at my screenshot I forgot to do that with this instance of Vivaldi, I've only done it with the other one. I'll have to fix that.
I find it strange that the filter lists aren't blocking a legitimate ad on Twitter. If that's the case, you should probably report it to the filter list maintainers.
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Looks like Twitter ads have to be cosmetically blocked: "Twitter ads are usually removed using cosmetic filtering (filters in EasyList), because they are inlined. Cosmetic filtering can be disabled in a number of ways" (https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/aku0uo/cant_get_it_to_block_twitter_ads_promoted_tweets/)
I guess I'm out of luck!
Thanks for trying to help.
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The cosmetic filtering your talking about here is included in UBO's "Parse and enforce cosmetic filters" in the Filters Lists tab. There is no filter list for this. It's part of the UBO extension, reason why Vivaldi on Android is still another chrome browser, albeit, with the ability to add filter lists. The only solution I can think of at the moment is to use Firefox Nightly which allows adding practically any extension available on the desktop version. The most common adblockers and privacy, and cookie extensions work just fine. Personally, I have both Vivaldi and Firefox on my phone. Vivaldi for its' incredible speed and tab bar. Firefox for its' extensions, albeit, the browser is slow, but pages load beautifully when you have the right extensions installed.
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@miguelk The android version of Brave has cosmetic filtering as a Brave://flag and seems to work reasonably well . Its whats stopping me using Vivaldi on phone
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Hmm.... I will check it out...
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