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Does Vivaldi allow so called Acceptable Ads?
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I noticed that Vivaldi's adblocker doesn't block ads on this site, no matter if I select ads+trackers. I wonder what's up with this? uBlock will correctly block ads. And for the record, to me these ads are not acceptable, because they are animated, I haven't got problems with static ads that of course don't try to track me.
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@RasheedHolland No, such Chrome feature is not implemented.
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@RasheedHolland No ads on that page for me, lots of ads blocked.
Tested in a clean profile of 5.6 Stable, default blocklists.
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@DoctorG said in Does Vivaldi allow so called Acceptable Ads?:
@RasheedHolland No, such Chrome feature is not implemented.
Not sure what you mean by this, it's about Vivaldi, not Chromium.
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@Pathduck said in Does Vivaldi allow so called Acceptable Ads?:
@RasheedHolland No ads on that page for me, lots of ads blocked.
Tested in a clean profile of 5.6 Stable, default blocklists.
Weird, I did disable uBlock of course. I wonder if there is perhaps some type of conflict with another extension, but this shouldn't be possible, hopefully. I got to see an ad from C&A which is a Dutch clothing company. And I also got to see the acceptable ads logo. I do know that AdBlock Plus may allow these type of ads, depending on your settings.
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@RasheedHolland Vivaldi has no allowlist for Acceptable Ads like
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@DoctorG Only thing Vivaldi has is the current partners exception list:
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/lists/vivaldi/partners-current.txtIf it's one of these V will not block ads:
@@$domain=startpage.com @@||startpage.com$document @@$domain=ecosia.org @@||ecosia.org$document @@$domain=bing.com @@||bing.com$document @@$domain=duckduckgo.com @@||duckduckgo.com$documentBut Yahoo is not there.
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@Pathduck Yes, but i think this is not the same as on Adblock-Plus or similar ad-blockers.
I thought Acceptable Ads is a list for advertisers paiing the extension developers to unblock. -
@RasheedHolland Ah, i found a Acceptable Ads list.
Addhttps://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.txt
Open Vivaldi Settings → Privacy → Tracker and Ad-Blocking → ad-blocker "Manage Sources"
Add with + button to list sources with the URL and Import.I can not test at this time.
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@DoctorG said in Does Vivaldi allow so called Acceptable Ads?:
@RasheedHolland Ah, i found a Acceptable Ads list.
Addhttps://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.txt
Open Vivaldi Settings → Privacy → Tracker and Ad-Blocking → ad-blocker "Manage Sources"
Add with + button to list sources with the URL and Import.I can not test at this time.
Thanks, I honestly forgot that you can actually select filterlists, so perhaps I should simply make Vivaldi's adblocker a bit more aggressive, because I keep getting to see those ads on Yahoo Finance, once I disable uBlocker. To clarify, normally I disable the built-in adblocker, but sometimes uBlock breaks stuff, so then it's handy to block ads and trackers with Vivaldi.
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@DoctorG said in Does Vivaldi allow so called Acceptable Ads?:
@Pathduck Yes, but i think this is not the same as on Adblock-Plus or similar ad-blockers.
I thought Acceptable Ads is a list for advertisers paiing the extension developers to unblock.Now I see that there is a list named ''Allow ads from our partners'', but even if it's disabled I still got to see the ads on Yahoo Finance. But now that I have enabled EasyList, I don't see them anymore.
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@RasheedHolland said in Does Vivaldi allow so called Acceptable Ads?:
Now I see that there is a list named ''Allow ads from our partners'', but even if it's disabled I still got to see the ads on Yahoo Finance.
But if you look at the list, Yahoo is not among the "partner" sites. So it does not matter if this list is enabled or not. Only Bing, Ecosia, DDG and Startpage are excepted from blocking.
But now that I have enabled EasyList, I don't see them anymore.
EasyList is one of the default enabled lists. So in that case you must've disabled it yourself. That would explain why you see ads on Yahoo.
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@Pathduck said in Does Vivaldi allow so called Acceptable Ads?:
But if you look at the list, Yahoo is not among the "partner" sites. So it does not matter if this list is enabled or not. Only Bing, Ecosia, DDG and Startpage are excepted from blocking. EasyList is one of the default enabled lists. So in that case you must've disabled it yourself. That would explain why you see ads on Yahoo.
OK I see, good to know that ads are only allowed on those search engines. And yes, perhaps I had disabled it. I would love to see a more advanced Vivaldi adblock GUI similar to uBlock though. At least for expert users, so it should be optional. This way I wouldn't even need uBlock or Ghostery anymore.
