Video ads not being blocked in Safari

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newhere

Video ads not being blocked in Safari

Post by newhere »

Hi,

I am running the latest version of Adblockplus and Safari on Yosemite.

So far I have noticed that video ads are not being blocked for videos on AOL.com or CNN.com. I have also noticed it on some videos on Yahoo.com.

I watch the same exact videos using Adblockplus and Google Chrome for Mac and the ads do not show.

Any thoughts on why this may be happening?

Thanks
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mapx
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Re: Video ads not being blocked in Safari

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Adblock Plus for Safari is based on Adblock Plus for Chrome and Opera, but has a few limitations, mostly due to limitations of Safari:
Popups can't be blocked.
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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