Tumblr Video Ads

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Tumblr Video Ads

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Today, I started having a problem with Adblock Plus (and it's the newest version). Apparently, when it blocks ads, they're technically still there; you just can't actually see them. Well, whenever Tumblr loads a video ad, what happens is that it autoplays, and because there's no player, I can't turn it off, and it repeats endlessly. Firefox does give me the option to mute the audio coming from that tab, but then I can't hear any videos I want to watch on my Dashboard, and if I have it turned off, then it's worthless, and I'd really rather not have to make an exception for Tumblr; I'd really rather go back to how it was before when I could leave it turned on for Tumblr and this never happened. I've had this version since it came out in late April, but this hasn't started happening until just now, so the only thing I could think of that would cause it is that Tumblr must've updated itself.

PS - I downloaded the new beta version to see if it fixed this, and it didn't.
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provide example page
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I can't really show you an example of audio playing from my headphones. Do you have a Tumblr account? If not, just sign up and then go to your dashboard...

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard

and scroll down. It doesn't happen every time, but you don't have to scroll that far down to see if it'll happen or not. If it doesn't, just refresh the page and try again.
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I tested already, no ad
anyway try this:
https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?p=98728#p98728
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I don't know what that is or how to implement it.
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add this filter as custom filter:

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||atlas.cdn.yimg.com$domain=tumblr.com
how to add:
forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42013

or add

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||yimg.com^$domain=tumblr.com
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Here's a video of it on Chrome. I also only started seeing this yesterday. Seems to be random:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRf2GVo9xBU
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did you try the filter above ?
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Post by animal »

I figured out how to block the ads with one filter. you have to block the source links and stop the videos themselves from playing. add

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http://c-
as a custom filter. I show a demo here for anyone who needs a visual aid.

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https://youtu.be/-wCShq0qaoE
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better limited to tumblr

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http://c-$domain=tumblr.com
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That filter displays this warning:

"This filter is either a regular expression or too short to be optimized. Too many of these filters might slow down your browsing."

What exactly does that mean?
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Regular-expression filters are slow, and ordinary filters that cannot have a keyword extracted from them (a sequence of at least three alphanumerical characters or percent signs that exists entirely inside the filter, so "_abc" and "_abc*_" wouldn't work, but "_abc_" and "_abc|" would) are converted to regular expressions instead of being passed through the faster filter-matching algorithm implemented in the fall of 2010: viewtopic.php?t=6118

There are a couple of references in the ABP blog, but the news became surprisingly hard to find now.

Now, to make that filter eligible for keyword-extraction, try

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|http://c-$domain=tumblr.com
The single | character, at the start or end of a URL pattern, means that the URL must, respectively, start or end there (otherwise, there is an implicit wildcard).
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Okay, sometimes it still happens, so these aren't stopping it 100% of the time.
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I'm getting the same issue… used all the above code and still the same looped audio from the ad - not as frequent now though. This is putting me off using tumblr at all.
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asullensky wrote:I'm getting the same issue… used all the above code and still the same looped audio from the ad - not as frequent now though. This is putting me off using tumblr at all.
I get youm it worked good for a bit, but now I am hearing the ads again and all I can do is mute the whole tab, sicne once the ad starts, it won't stop looping, which is awful
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