BUG: Vivaldi's ad blocker fail to block text ads at the top of the Yahoo Mail inbox...
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Vivaldi's ad blocker fail to block text ads at the top of the Yahoo Mail inbox. These text ads are especially annoying and distracting because they try to look like new mail, and try to confuse the user into clicking them. Please fix.
[bug reported VB-70689]
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but Vivaldi's ad blocker was blocking those ads fine, until recently.
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Hi,
That would be related to recent changes from Yahoo but pending to update on AdBlock lists used on V.
Those lists are maintained by 3rd Party.You can test on a Clean Profile to know whether is related to that or to any new Setting/Extension on your Profile.
New Vivaldi's Profile
:- "Right side" |
Rename it as Tests or something related, and use it as a Clean Profile, to test without custom configurations that can alter the original operation.
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@TsunamiZ
Hi, my Yahoo mail client looks different and has no adds at all, with or without Vivaldi blocker.
I have check settings for "New design" or something but cant find.
Cheers, mib
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but you do have an ad--it is the gray bar with the bold text above your email.
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@TsunamiZ
Ah, now I understand what you meant.
uBlock origin block the text but it leave a grey line.
Therefor I use a e-mail client and wait for M3, no idea if this is a bug.Cheers, mib
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if ublock origin can block those ads, so should vivaldi.
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vivaldi was blocking the ads fine by itself, until recently, in which it stopped working. i haven't changed anything.
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@TsunamiZ said in BUG: Vivaldi's ad blocker is not blocking text ads in Yahoo Mail...:
vivaldi was blocking the ads fine by itself, until recently, in which it stopped working. i haven't changed anything.
You haven't changed something, but maybe Yahoo Mail or the ad provider did in order to prevent ad blockers from blocking those ads. If uBlock Origin still blocks the ads they might have updated their lists while Vivaldi's lists might not have been updated to block these "new" ads yet.
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that is why i reported it so the devs can check the problem.
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i got an email reply from a vivaldi dev saying that vivaldi allows ads for email providers. so email providers can pay vivaldi to not block their ads? i don't like that, and it makes me want to use a different ad blocker instead of vivaldi's.
Hi, Thank you for reaching out to us. While your description about this behaviour is correct, this is expected behaviour as our blocker is supposed to block ads on webpages only, but not ads on email providers. As this is the intended behaviour and we do not see it as a bug in Vivaldi, we are closing this report. Should you require any other support from us, please feel free to contact us. Thank you for your time and for using Vivaldi! Best, -- Akira Hojo Team Vivaldi -
@TsunamiZ Email providers don't pay Vivaldi anything. Vivaldi simply doesn't intrude into email content. It's none of their business.
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And the adblocker lists are not made by Vivaldi but come from 3rd parties.
If the chosen lists don't provide a way to block a specific item, is not a vivaldi ad-blocker fault.
By the way, I don't see ads on my yahoo webmail (26 ads blocked).
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i'm just using the default ad blocker lists that vivaldi uses.
here are the screenshots again, showing the ad in the gray bar with bold text, above the email list of the inbox...
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but vivaldi's blocker was blocking it fine, until recently. so it must be fixable.
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@TsunamiZ Web sites are a moving target. Perhaps, after realising that their ads (on which they rely for income) are being blocked, they change their code so that they are no longer blocked?
It is not safe to assume that because something changed recently that it was a change in a Vivaldi update that caused it. Often it is, but sometimes the reason lies elsewhere: updates to Chrome, to Windows, to the web site, or to an anti-virus product that you are using.
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well, this problem most likely needs to be fixed via vivaldi's blocker or blocking lists. so the dev's reply saying that it is normal behavior, and closing the bug report, is not helping to get this fixed.
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i report the problem to vivaldi, and they are supposed to figure out what needs to be done to fix it. perhaps, in this case, it includes forwarding the problem to the makers of the lists. so the vivaldi dev's reply saying that it is normal behavior, and closing the bug report, is not helping to get this fixed.
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updated first post
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this is done
