Chrome: Advertisements replaced by a mesage...

[wolfmitchell]

On chrome, when an advertisement is blocked, I get this instead of the advertisement where the advert would be, see below for a screenshot. A message saying that "the webpage was blocked by an extension" which could get fairly annoying, fast.

[culinko]

I can confirm this behavior after the latest update. I'm using Chromium 28.0.1458.0 (191498), tried with fresh browser with same results. I can't try newer versions of chromium right now, but ABP worked perfectly fine until the update. Youtube ads are blocked just fine. Also, some pages are perfectly fine, while others still have ads and don't have blocked content (like facebook).

Example: http://i.imgur.com/r8zqJVD.png (tpb)

[mapx]

are you using abp 1.7.4 ?

try disabling all other extensions - still happens ?
also go into chrome://plugins, disable your eventually antivirus plugin, restart chrome , try again

[dmguru]

I can confirm this started happening in Chrome 27.0.1453 on linux after recent abp update to 1.7.4.
I have no other extensions installed.

[mapx]

if you can not update chrome, try downgrading to
https://downloads.adblockplus.org/devbu ... 2.1072.crx

modify preferences and manifest.json files to avoid updating ABP (see the posts ...)
forum/viewtopic.php?p=91892#p91892

[culinko]

Thanks mapx, downgrading to 1.7.2 fixed all the problems.

[wolfmitchell]

mapx, thanks for that fix, the bug is gone over here too!

[dmguru]

That worked but then it updated to 1.7.4.1111 after a few hours.
First I changed the update_url line in manifest.json per the instructions provided in the link above.
Then I deleted the update_url line out of the manifest.json file and it updated again a few hours later.
I'm going to sniff out the network traffic and see if I can't figure out where it's getting the update from.

[culinko]

That worked but then it updated to 1.7.4.1111 after a few hours.
First I changed the update_url line in manifest.json per the instructions provided in the link above.
Then I deleted the update_url line out of the manifest.json file and it updated again a few hours later.
I'm going to sniff out the network traffic and see if I can't figure out where it's getting the update from.

You need to change similar line in the file in chrome directory called "preferences" (without extension), not only in the manifest.json file.

[dmguru]

Thanks culinko. I missed that part. Now it works great.
Appreciate the help mapx and culinko.