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Not showing ads and not collecting them
I'm using the latest version of AdNauseam after replacing uBlock. When using this extension, all ads disappear, even though ad collection and click tracking are enabled.
I've tried disabling other extensions, but that doesn't work. When I disable AdNauseam, the ads reappear, but if I re-enable it, they don't appear and aren't collected; it always shows 0 detections.
On YouTube, video ads sometimes appear, but it doesn't detect them.
I'm using Brave with shields disabled.
My location is: Spanish (Spain) AdNauseam v3.26.2 Brave is up to date. Brave 1.84.132 (Official Build) (64-bit) Chromium: 142.0.7444.60
Same thing happens to me as well, it blocks the ads but it never collects or clicks them
Not sure if related, but it also does not seem to affect at least some cookie notices (for example on https://tinypng.com), although uBlock does block it as expected. Filters are the same, of course.
Same problem here. I only just tried it out for the first time today and thought maybe my DNS filters were affecting it or something. But after trying it on a fresh Firefox install with no other extensions, and ordinary unfiltered DNS, I find it blocks most ads, but only very rarely actually shows that it has detected or clicked any. I intentionally went to many high ad websites, and the blocking worked (saw no ads), but it still said it didn't filter or click any.
I also noticed that even when selecting the setting to block cookie notices, it also doesn't work.
It also blocks the ads for me, but does not detect them, I'm using Zen.
AdNauseam: 3.26.0
Firefox: 144
filterset (summary):
network: 934238
cosmetic: 183024
scriptlet: 52316
html: 2531
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
removed:
eff-dnt-whitelist: null
added:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/olegwukr/polish-privacy-filters/master/anti-adblock.txt: 1283-12, 2m
https://hole.cert.pl/domains/v2/domains_adblock.txt: 743975-0, 2m
adguard-generic: 88785-4331, 2m
adguard-cookies: 35819-77, 2m
ublock-cookies-adguard: 5220-77, 2m
fanboy-cookiemonster: 57871-15301, 2m
ublock-cookies-easylist: 5220-5220, 2m
easylist-annoyances: 5227-77, 2m
easylist-chat: 252-0, 2m
easylist-newsletters: 9128-50, 2m
easylist-notifications: 3407-174, 2m
plowe-0: 3464-972, 2m
[2 lists not shown]: [too many]
default:
user-filters: 7-0, never
adnauseam-filters: 554-2, 2m
ublock-filters: 41769-107, 2m
ublock-badware: 10713-57, 2m
ublock-privacy: 3540-2, 2m
ublock-unbreak: 2762-1, 2m
ublock-quick-fixes: 383-18, 2m
easylist: 83354-1164, 2m
easyprivacy: 54772-132, 2m
urlhaus-1: 31340-10, 2m
filterset (user): [array of 7 redacted]
trustedset:
added: [array of 15 redacted]
hostRuleset:
removed:
youtube.com * * strictBlock
funnyordie.com * * strictBlock
userSettings:
admap: [redacted]
firstInstall: false
hidingAds: true
clickingAds: true
blockingMalware: true
hiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats:
allReadyAfter: 2468 ms
maxAssetCacheWait: 34 ms
cacheBackend: indexedDB
Same, how do you get the log like that? i took off my nextdns because i thought thats why it wasnt working. and then it still didnt work....but somehow later worked after i put debug mode on.
Okay here's mine AdNauseam: 3.26.0 Firefox: 144 filterset (summary): network: 160373 cosmetic: 42652 scriptlet: 23985 html: 2523 listset (total-discarded, last-updated): default: user-filters: 0-0, never adnauseam-filters: 554-2, 9h.5m eff-dnt-whitelist: 324-0, 9h.5m ublock-filters: 41796-71, 3h.59m Δ ublock-badware: 10713-31, 3h.59m Δ ublock-privacy: 3540-2, 3h.59m Δ ublock-unbreak: 2762-1, 3h.59m Δ ublock-quick-fixes: 383-18, 3h.59m Δ easylist: 83647-168, 3h.59m Δ easyprivacy: 54772-45, 3h.59m Δ urlhaus-1: 31445-5, 9h.5m filterset (user): [empty] userSettings: admap: [redacted] firstInstall: false hidingAds: true clickingAds: true blockingMalware: true hiddenSettings: [none] supportStats: allReadyAfter: 243 ms (selfie) maxAssetCacheWait: 71 ms cacheBackend: indexedDB
And mine
AdNauseam: 3.26.2
Chromium: 140
filterset (summary):
network: 365881
cosmetic: 290067
scriptlet: 62503
html: 0
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
added:
adguard-generic: 88740-5419, 13h.44m
adguard-mobile: 11433-23, 13h.44m
adguard-spyware-url: 2301-16, 13h.43m
block-lan: 89-0, 13h.43m
curben-phishing: 137358-57, 1h.32m
adguard-cookies: 35816-79, 13h.43m
ublock-cookies-adguard: 5220-77, 13h.43m
fanboy-cookiemonster: 46510-3942, 13h.43m
ublock-cookies-easylist: 5220-5220, 13h.43m
adguard-social: 25019-52, 13h.43m
fanboy-social: 17509-854, 13h.43m
fanboy-thirdparty_social: 69-0, 13h.43m
[14 lists not shown]: [too many]
default:
user-filters: 0-0, never
adnauseam-filters: 554-2, 13h.45m
eff-dnt-whitelist: 324-0, 13h.46m
ublock-filters: 41594-88, 5h.46m Δ
ublock-badware: 10713-31, 5h.46m Δ
ublock-privacy: 3556-121, 5h.46m Δ
ublock-unbreak: 2700-2, 5h.46m Δ
ublock-quick-fixes: 375-0, 5h.46m Δ
easylist: 83647-540, 5h.46m Δ
easyprivacy: 54772-885, 5h.46m Δ
urlhaus-1: 31340-5, 1h.32m
filterset (user): [empty]
trustedset:
added: [array of 9 redacted]
userSettings:
admap: [redacted]
firstInstall: false
hidingAds: true
clickingAds: true
blockingMalware: true
disableClickingForDNT: true
blurCollectedAds: true
hideDeadAds: true
webrtcIPAddressHidden: true
hiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats:
allReadyAfter: 255 ms (selfie)
maxAssetCacheWait: 95 ms
cacheBackend: indexedDB
CachyOS, Floorp [email protected]. I just downloaded it today. Sorry if it was my fault.
The one and only collected ad was from Amazon, as mentioned in #1685, specifically in this comment.
AdNauseam: 3.26.0
Firefox: 144
filterset (summary):
network: 576149
cosmetic: 341374
scriptlet: 52205
html: 2796
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
added:
https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/ublock/filters/14.txt: 89191-268, 12h.46m
https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/ublock/filters/3.txt: 137011-265, 12h.46m
https://malware-filter.gitlab.io/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter-online.txt: 19684-0, 9m
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CrusheerPL/AlleBlockV2/master/AlleBlockV2.txt: 407-1, 12h.46m
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/Dandelion%20Sprout's%20Anti-Malware%20List.txt: 75185-223, 12h.45m
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FiltersHeroes/KAD/master/KAD.txt: 200644-75, 12h.46m
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FiltersHeroes/PolishAnnoyanceFilters/master/PPB.txt: 24168-649, 12h.46m
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FiltersHeroes/PolishAntiAnnoyingSpecialSupplement/master/polish_rss_filters.txt: 1364-18, 12h.46m
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LanikSJ/webannoyances/master/ultralist.txt: 44284-398, 12h.46m
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MajkiIT/polish-ads-filter/master/adblock_social_filters/adblock_social_list.txt: 17096-426, 12h.46m
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MajkiIT/polish-ads-filter/master/cookies_filters/adblock_cookies.txt: 11850-11850, 12h.46m
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/master/nocoin.txt: 472-0, 12h.46m
[7 lists not shown]: [too many]
default:
user-filters: 0-0, never
adnauseam-filters: 552-6, 12h.52m
eff-dnt-whitelist: 324-0, 12h.52m
ublock-filters: 41796-410, 11m Δ
ublock-badware: 10713-478, 11m Δ
ublock-privacy: 3540-483, 11m Δ
ublock-unbreak: 2762-78, 11m Δ
ublock-quick-fixes: 383-18, 11m Δ
easylist: 83701-1644, 8h.35m Δ
easyprivacy: 54772-28752, 9m Δ
urlhaus-1: 31340-19595, 9m
POL-0: 9010-277, 12h.53m
POL-3: 37528-36232, 9m
filterset (user): [empty]
trustedset:
added: [array of 1 redacted]
removed:
moz-extension-scheme
untrustedset:
added: [array of 3 redacted]
userSettings:
admap: [redacted]
firstInstall: false
hidingAds: true
clickingAds: true
blockingMalware: true
disableHidingForDNT: true
disableClickingForDNT: true
strictBlockingMode: true
hiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats:
allReadyAfter: 1948 ms
maxAssetCacheWait: 1404 ms
cacheBackend: indexedDB
Same issue, also CachyOS with Floorp just like HerrJacuch. Blocks all ads, interacts with none, even after disabling every Floorp privacy setting. No idea why that's the cause. Maybe a linux thing? Will try a Windows VM.
Same issue, also CachyOS with Floorp just like HerrJacuch. Blocks all ads, interacts with none, even after disabling every Floorp privacy setting. No idea why that's the cause. Maybe a linux thing? Will try a Windows VM.
Windows VM seems to have the same issue, Firefox or Chrome. Could be a problem with the host Linux OS itself (somehow?). Worth nothing ads also aren't clicked on two Android devices I have, across multiple browsers.
Thank you all for submitting this issue, but this can be somewhat expected behaviour in AdNauseam. We can't collect/click on all types of ads, for example video injected ads on youtube we can't click on them because there isn't a way to both HIDE and CLICK on them at the same time, and on this cases, we prefer to prioritize hiding.
There are some other cases with fancier ad display stretegies that we also can't collect. The advertising agencies are always creating new tricky ways to nest their images and links in the html of the ads so that it's harder to collect it.
And besides, there is location/profile specific context that is hard to reproduce. Sometimes google seems to 'notice' what is going on and stops display ads to that user for sometime, at least thats what I can assume happens.
But we try to keep it with it somehow, usually dealing with it case by case. So please feel free to share specific websites that no ads are being collected where you think it should.
But should not the counter of blocked ads increase, at least? for me it's always 0
huh... that's not necessarily obvious. perhaps it can, at least, be an option to show number of ads blocked?
But we try to keep it with it somehow, usually dealing with it case by case. So please feel free to share specific websites that no ads are being collected where you think it should.
Here's some examples I found where ads are blocked, but none are clicked. I agree it is a bit unclear, because it says Clicked 0 / 0 Ads detected. I assume it means 0 clickable ads detected then? arstechnica.com news.com.au theage.com.au telegraph.co.uk cnn.com nytimes.com
Is the cookie notice blocking problem just a related factor of it not being possible to do without breaking other functionality, or should that perhaps be made as a new Issue?
oh, also what about cookie notices filters not working? is that intentional, too, because they do not track by themselves?
On the Youtube Homepage, ads are being blocked but not clicked:
Without AdNauseam:
(Let me know if this should be a separate issue. Also if you missed it, Louis Rossmann just recommended the extension, so traffic will probably be up for a bit)
So just as I was about to provide some debug info, I realised that the reason why I'm not getting ads collected (or even ads visible despite "hide ads" being disabled) was because I had Proton VPN's Netshield enabled and it was blocking ads. Honestly surprised that it actually works.
So after disabling that I started getting ads on Firefox.
On Brave I had to disable Decentraleyes (I didn't think this would conflict with Adnauseam since it isn't an ad blocker, but I started getting ads collected once I disabled it). I enabled Safe Browsing and I'm still getting ads collected.
For anyone else, consider looking at whether your VPN settings are interfering.
I also have this issue. I am on MacOS, using Brave browser, I have disabled Trackers & ads blocking from brave shield. I also have Proton VPN but have both tried turning off netshield and the vpn altogether. I also tried to disable Safe Browsing but that didn't do it either. All ads are blocked except for twitch ads but none are collected.
EDIT: Tried it on my windows pc too with brave browser and no vpn, still does not work
Windows info:
AdNauseam: 3.26.2 Chromium: 142 filterset (summary): network: 160448 cosmetic: 42662 scriptlet: 26260 html: 0 listset (total-discarded, last-updated): default: user-filters: 0-0, never adnauseam-filters: 554-2, 22m eff-dnt-whitelist: 318-0, 22m ublock-filters: 41606-88, 22m ublock-badware: 10774-31, 22m ublock-privacy: 3557-3, 22m ublock-unbreak: 2701-1, 22m ublock-quick-fixes: 383-0, 22m easylist: 84206-169, 22m easyprivacy: 54780-60, 22m urlhaus-1: 30910-5, 22m filterset (user): [empty] userSettings: admap: [redacted] firstInstall: false hidingAds: true clickingAds: true blockingMalware: true disableHidingForDNT: true disableClickingForDNT: true hiddenSettings: [none] supportStats: allReadyAfter: 748 ms maxAssetCacheWait: 4 ms cacheBackend: indexedDB
Same for me with Zen Browser (W11 and Bazzite) (all Ads blocked, but nothing in Ad Vault™), will try on LibreWolf later. Unfortunately, was not bale to install in the latest version of Vivaldi.
Log:
AdNauseam: 3.26.0
Firefox: 145
filterset (summary):
network: 366229
cosmetic: 293773
scriptlet: 59980
html: 2854
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
added:
adguard-generic: 88822-4275, 8m
adguard-mobile: 11440-58, 8m
adguard-spyware-url: 2302-135, 8m
block-lan: 89-0, 8m
curben-phishing: 136673-56, 8m
adguard-cookies: 35850-77, 8m
ublock-cookies-adguard: 5220-77, 8m
fanboy-cookiemonster: 57881-15303, 8m
ublock-cookies-easylist: 5221-5220, 8m
adguard-social: 25040-48, 8m
fanboy-social: 17509-839, 8m
fanboy-thirdparty_social: 69-18, 8m
[15 lists not shown]: [too many]
default:
user-filters: 0-0, never
adnauseam-filters: 554-2, 8m
eff-dnt-whitelist: 318-0, 12m
ublock-filters: 41812-71, 12m
ublock-badware: 10515-31, 12m
ublock-privacy: 3542-2, 12m
ublock-unbreak: 2763-1, 12m
ublock-quick-fixes: 391-18, 12m
easylist: 84263-1191, 12m
easyprivacy: 54784-144, 12m
urlhaus-1: 30910-5, 12m
filterset (user): [empty]
userSettings:
admap: [redacted]
firstInstall: false
hidingAds: true
clickingAds: true
blockingMalware: true
disableHidingForDNT: true
disableClickingForDNT: true
hiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats:
allReadyAfter: 1394 ms
maxAssetCacheWait: 39 ms
cacheBackend: indexedDB
W11
AdNauseam: 3.26.2 Firefox: 144 filterset (summary): network: 219702 cosmetic: 214665 scriptlet: 43716 html: 2855 listset (total-discarded, last-updated): added: adguard-cookies: 35863-93, 23m ublock-cookies-adguard: 5229-76, 23m fanboy-cookiemonster: 46519-3947, 23m ublock-cookies-easylist: 5229-5229, 23m adguard-popup-overlays: 28869-445, 23m adguard-mobile-app-banners: 6425-96, 23m adguard-other-annoyances: 15175-266, 23m adguard-widgets: 2985-32, 23m easylist-annoyances: 5227-450, 23m easylist-chat: 252-19, 23m easylist-newsletters: 9130-708, 23m easylist-notifications: 3408-1583, 23m [6 lists not shown]: [too many] default: user-filters: 1-1, never adnauseam-filters: 554-2, 25m eff-dnt-whitelist: 318-0, 25m ublock-filters: 41842-100, 25m ublock-badware: 10555-31, 25m ublock-privacy: 3543-3, 23m Δ ublock-unbreak: 2764-1, 23m Δ ublock-quick-fixes: 388-18, 23m Δ easylist: 84451-178, 25m easyprivacy: 54789-130, 25m urlhaus-1: 31020-5, 25m filterset (user): [array of 1 redacted] userSettings: admap: [redacted] firstInstall: false hidingAds: true clickingAds: true blockingMalware: true hiddenSettings: userResourcesLocation: [redacted] supportStats: allReadyAfter: 1030 ms (selfie) maxAssetCacheWait: 188 ms cacheBackend: indexedDB
Hello,
I was experiencing the same issue on Firefox. I tried disabling DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentails, and after that it is collecting ads.
I think that making the UI more explicit in that it only shows ads that were collected, rather than blocked would be more intuitive, especially moving from uBO, as many users likely are. It took me a while to figure out that areas that would normally show blocked counters were now only showing ones that were detected. Additionally, if one is using a network ad blocker like pi-hole, the stats are much less useful. I expected the menu to be the same as uBO when I first switched from uBO.
