Opened on 09/28/2016 at 09:00:37 AM

Closed on 11/02/2016 at 12:31:23 PM

#4480 closed defect (fixed)

Sponsored content is not displayed on Fox News articles

Reported by:	scheer	Assignee:
Priority:	Unknown	Milestone:	Adblock-Browser-for-iOS-1.5.2
Module:	Adblock-Browser-for-iOS	Keywords:
Cc:	pavelz, mario, arthur	Blocked By:
Blocking:		Platform:	Adblock Browser for iOS
Ready:	yes	Confidential:	no
Tester:	Scheer	Verified working:	yes
Review URL(s):

Description (last modified by mario)

Currently, no sponsored content is displayed at the end of articles when AA is enabled. Some articles only display the Outbrains symbol.

Environment

ABB iOS 1.5.1 (1137)
iPhone 6s Plus
iOS 9.3.4

How to reproduce

Visit http:www.foxnews.com
Select an article from the main page (e.g. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/06/video-shows-memphis-couple-overdose-on-heroin-outside-store.html )
Scroll to the bottom of the article

Observed behaviour

No sponsored content is displayed as shown in this screenshot.

Expected behaviour

Sponsored content should be displayed as shown in this screenshot.

Change History (17)

comment:1 Changed on 09/29/2016 at 12:51:27 PM by pavelz

Is this about "Full site" (i.e. desktop)? When i'm (by default) redirected to m.foxnews.com, i can't find any sponsored content at all regardless of ABP/AA settings.

comment:2 Changed on 09/29/2016 at 01:08:51 PM by pavelz

Cc pavelz added

comment:3 Changed on 09/29/2016 at 02:24:34 PM by mario

Cc mario added

comment:4 Changed on 10/04/2016 at 03:55:50 PM by pavelz

Keywords blocked added

comment:5 Changed on 10/06/2016 at 01:59:34 PM by mario

Description modified (diff)
Keywords blocked removed

Added an example, as sponsored content isn|t shown on every article.

Changed on 10/06/2016 at 02:00:43 PM by mario

Attachment foxnews_aa.PNG added

Changed on 10/06/2016 at 02:00:53 PM by mario

Attachment foxnews_no_aa.PNG added

comment:6 Changed on 10/06/2016 at 02:01:40 PM by mario

Description modified (diff)
Ready set

comment:7 Changed on 10/11/2016 at 12:11:15 PM by pavelz

The ads are in the DOM. The DOM with or without ad blocking is totally equal (well, bar the fact that the Outbrain feed is not always the same). See the attached Web Inspector screenshots. So the ads are there BUT INVISIBLE when ad blocking is ON. I need to consult Salsita CSS guru on this.

ANYWAY. Out of curiosity, i tried Desktop Chrome with ABP 1.12.2.1663, switched to smartphone simulation mode, and THE ADS ARE NOT VISIBLE EITHER. See the third attached screenshot. Please confirm this finding.

Changed on 10/11/2016 at 12:11:36 PM by pavelz

Attachment blocking-off.png added

Changed on 10/11/2016 at 12:11:46 PM by pavelz

Attachment blocking-on.png added

Changed on 10/11/2016 at 12:12:10 PM by pavelz

Attachment Desktop Chrome.png added

comment:8 Changed on 10/11/2016 at 01:52:27 PM by pavelz

So the site is clearly sprayed with a CSS hiding selector
.ob_container .item-container-obpd { display: none }
This applies to ABB/iOS as well as desktop Chrome in phone simulation mode.
The hidden element is exactly that:
<div class="item-container ob-recIdx-0 item-container-obpd ob-p">
Not in full desktop mode. The desktop formatting is different and element classes are different - generally named ob-dynamic* or ob-widget*.

Looking into the filter lists, default filter list declares

##.ob_container .item-container-obpd
##.ob_container a[data-redirect^="http://paid.outbrain.com/network/redir?"]

so AA exceptions are supposed to cancel that, i guess. Which doesn't work.

comment:9 Changed on 10/12/2016 at 02:16:04 PM by arthur

Cc arthur added

Please try it again with an updated version of the Acceptable Ads whitelist.

comment:10 Changed on 10/13/2016 at 10:32:52 AM by scheer

Tester changed from Unknown to Scheer
Verified working set

Outbrain Sponsored Ads now display correctly at the bottom of articles on www.foxnews.com.