LA Times - native ads

[lukemulks]

• Did you search for similar issues before submitting this one?
  Y
• Describe the issue you encountered:
  Reports of an ad with a nasty clickthrough on LATimes.com - not a content blocking overlay, but an actual ad. Appears similar to a sunday morning newspaper insert, which links to a "support us" page, and then finally lets user see the article content.

Also observed, native ads in the page, served by a new ad implementation not previously observed earlier this week.

• Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?):
  Reported from MacOS, other platforms TBD.

• Brave Version (revision SHA):
  0.13.4

• Steps to reproduce:
  1.go to Latimes.com
  2.click article
  3.see ad

• Actual result:
  Native ads.

• Expected result:
  No native ads.

• Will the steps above reproduce in a fresh profile? If not what other info can be added?
  TBD

• Is this an issue in the currently released version?
  Yes

• Can this issue be consistently reproduced?
  TBD

• Extra QA steps:
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• Screenshot if needed:
  These ads were confirmed on windows:
  

Have been unable to repro the "newspaper insert" ad from Windows, but the insert ad was reported from MacOS X, in London (could be a day-parting and/or regional issue)

Confirmed the following filter rules will resolve the two ad versions screencapped from windows, tested in about:adblock :

||aggrego.org^$script,image, domain=latimes.com
||adserve.postrelease.com^$script,image, domain=latimes.com
||troncdata.com^$script,image, domain=latimes.com
||polarmobile.com^$script,image, domain=latimes.com
||ntv.io^$script,image, domain=latimes.com
||gigya.com^$script,image, domain=latimes.com

Will file an issue and submit a PR in adblock-lists for the above. The fix above may resolve for the insert ad as well, but I need to repro from a mac to confirm.

[lukemulks]

cc @BrendanEich ☝️

[lukemulks]

Issue filed in adblock-lists: brave/adblock-lists#8
PR to resolve the "sponsored content" ads and tracking: brave/adblock-lists#9

Will try and repro newspaper insert issue in MacOS.

[lukemulks]

Also having reports of intermittent adblocking overlays that match the past fix - seeing this called out on the uBlock forums and other anti-adblock lists that I'm tracking.

Going to check that and the native ad issue on macOS, as that appears to be the platform where this is most often reported/reproduced. I've not seen it after +50 page loads and 2 cache-clearings on Windows.

[lukemulks]

Confirming that after testing on macOS, the rules applied and submitted in adblock-lists here:

• Issue filed in adblock-lists: LAtimes.com - filter rules to fix new native ads adblock-lists#8
• PR to resolve the "sponsored content" ads and tracking: LA Times - native ads fix adblock-lists#9

correct for these ad types:
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/8979240/23528497/ed0e94fc-ff4e-11e6-826c-dc30677a1e45.PNG

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/8979240/23528486/e82a19ac-ff4e-11e6-8b3e-9622e7ba5aa7.PNG

Unable to repro the adblock message that reported as being observed intermittently today, but will try a few things to force that to show up.

Received confirmation that the news-insert style ad that was observed was observed w/shields down.

Going to close this issue and resolve further from the brave/adblock-lists issue.

If the subscription prompt persists, I'll reopen this and dive deeper if I can't repro otherwise.