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santiagomarti
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Instacart Search broken

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Hi

I’m an engineer at Instacart. I’m reaching out due to some recent changes in your product (outlined below) which completely disable key (non-ads) features on our website for Ads Blocker Plus users, and not just removed ads, which will hurt the non-ads experience for your users. I’m hoping you can help stop future changes that break the non-ads experience.

These rules seem to target the banner that can be found in the top of each retailer home (https://www.instacart.com/store/safeway/storefront or https://www.instacart.com/store/costco/storefront for example). However, we also show this same banner in search results (https://www.instacart.com/store/costco/search/bacon for example). And when that happens, this rule remove the whole search grid container. Meaning users see no items, no banners, just an empty blank space (see screenshot below).

We understand your product and what ad blockers do, but want to flag that these rules will seriously degrade the overall / non-ads experience for users of your product. I suspect this is unintentional, and so hope this is helpful.

Rules:

Pull Request

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instacart.com#$#hide-if-matches-xpath './/div[2][starts-with(@class,"css")]//span[text()="Sponsored"]/ancestor::div[2][starts-with(@class,"css")]'

Pull Request

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instacart.com#$#hide-if-matches-xpath './/picture/following::div[@aria-hidden="true"][text()="Sponsored"]/parent::div[@id]/ancestor::div[@class][1]'
Experience:
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Thanks in advance,
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