ABP Firefox is able to block ads on http://www.london24.com/ but not Chrome ABP

[passbrains]

Adapted from ​https://www.passbrains.com/dashboard/view-ticket.php?ticket_no=ACH-32

Environment

Windows 7 64bit Chrome English
ABP version 1.8.3.1204

How to reproduce

1. Install ABP for Chrome and open page ​http://www.london24.com/news/crime/met_spied_on_relatives_of_jean_charles_de_menezes_claims_family_1_3698056
2. Check Promoted Stories section.

Observed behaviour

ABP Chrome is not blocking ads in Promoted Stories links.

Expected behaviour

ABP Chrome should block these as done by Firefox ABP

[passbrains]

1 - 27 Jul 2014 12:06:53 posted by Abhinav Sejpal
ABP FF is blocking side ads. I have applied easy list filter only (No extra changes).

[mapx]

could be the same reason as for 242 ticket ?
https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/242

[sebastian]

The HTML that outbrain (the widget used here) generates for Chrome looks kinda different from the HTML it generates for Firefox. So I assume that it isn't a bug in Adblock Plus for Chrome, but that the filters in EasyList only address the Firefox version of that website.

[arthur]

I see this container <div class="item-container ob-recIdx-3 item-container-ad "> which should actually be hidden by ##.item-container-ad but isn't. So I assume it's an ABP/Chrome issue.

[sebastian]

The style we inject is overridden by following rule, which is defined by an inline style tag:

.AR_4 .ob_container_recs .item-container {
  display: inline-block !important;

  ...
}

So it is indeed the same issue as #242, as mapx suspected.

However, is there any reason why EasyList is using element hiding, instead just blocking outbrain's script?

||widgets.outbrain.com/outbrain.js

[arthur]

Replying to sebastian:

However, is there any reason why EasyList is using element hiding, instead just blocking outbrain's script?

Yes, Outbrain also provides first-party recommendations on sites. Blocking that script would remove those.

Added a specific hiding filter: ​https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/96e8b87ae7b8