blocking ads on videos only works with youtube

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Bretzel
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blocking ads on videos only works with youtube

Post by Bretzel »

Hi,

first I have to ask to excuse my bad english. I hope you can understand.

I have a problem with adblock plus 1.8.6. I use it with Safari 8.0. It blocks ads on youtube (the spots before the video begins) but on other sides (for example on southpark.com) the ads still appear.

I tried it the same way with firefox and there it worked very well. Is this a general problem or is it my mistake? I tried to change some options but it don't work. Now I use it with standard options, because so it worked on firefox.

I would like to say thank you once before.

Greetings
Bretzel
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mapx
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Re: blocking ads on videos only works with youtube

Post by mapx »

unfortunately due to the limitations of safari:

XMLHttpRequests can't be blocked.
Requests initiated by third-party plugins like Flash can't be blocked. This mostly affects in-video ads (like prerolls), however not those on YouTube, which are blocked in a different way.
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