Twitch.TV video ads are not being blocked.

[distributedlock]

Ads coming from the video on live streaming website http://twitch.tv are not being blocked anymore as of today. I assume they have changed their methods of delivering ads to bypass a variety of several ad blocking extensions.

[chrisaljoudi]

Hi @ranadeeppolavarapu!

What browser is this occurring with? Do you have a URL where the issue consistently occurs?

I've tried to reproduce but have been unable to.

[distributedlock]

Hi @chrisaljoudi,

The browser is Chrome (v41.0.2272.118 (64-bit)). The URL where this issue occurred was: http://www.twitch.tv/riotgames/popout.

Image of issue:

Please ignore that red box in the middle, I was removing out my bookmarks from the image and accidentally left that box in the image.

I have been able to reproduce the issue several times at that URL.

[chrisaljoudi]

@ranadeeppolavarapu still can't reproduce — I was able to see ads with uBlock disabled, but no ads with uBlock enabled.

What version of uBlock are you using?

Also, it looks like you have some other extensions running. What are they? Does the problem occur if you disable them?

[distributedlock]

@chrisaljoudi I am using uBlock v0.9.3.0. The other extensions were Hola Better Internet, LoL Stream Browser, and Twitch Now. I have disabled them all with only uBlock enabled and I can still reproduce this issue.

[pedrolucasmag]

Same with Firefox 36.0.4

[timvermeulen]

Were they ever blocked? I'm on Safari 8.0.5 on OSX 10.10.3 (using uBlock 0.9.3) and I think I have never had Twitch ads blocked.

[Betsy25]

I get the page below when I have Block 3rd party, 3p scripts & 3p frames enabled globally.
Bypassing those 3, and leaving all my blocklists enabled, got me to a videostream, but it was offline, so was not able to correctly see if the ad itself gets loaded then also.
EDIT: clicking any of the streams at the bottom correctly plays them, no ads encountered.
(Firefox nightly v40, Win7)

[distributedlock]

@timvermeulen I don't know about Safari, but on Chrome they were always blocked.

[chrisaljoudi]

@timvermeulen Safari doesn't allow for intercepting requests coming from Flash. So, if you're using Safari, do you have plug-ins (incl. Flash) disabled?

That way, Twitch will use HTML5 instead and uBlock will be able to filter those requests.

[ghost]

Ah yes this is the exact issue I have. And it's with the exact same stream. I'm on the latest version of firefox 37.0.1

[timvermeulen]

@chrisaljoudi That's unfortunate. Twitch does not use HTML5, unfortunately (there are workarounds, but then you lose chat and other features), so disabling Flash will not solve my problem. I suppose I'll just have to accept the ads if I'm going to stick with Safari.

[boniboni]

still happening

[iNfz]

firefox 37.0.1, ublock just shuts off on twitch stream after hour or two.

[j0hnlam]

Can only recreate the problem on Safari (uBlock 0.9.3.5).

[anishlr]

This is a problem again. I'm using Chrome (49.0.2623.87 m)

[distributedlock]

@anishlr Migrate to uBlock Origin. This is currently unmaintained.