www.sueddeutsche.de anti-adblock

[mario98]

The german newspaper website sueddeutsche.de (Sueddeutsche is one of the largest german newspapers) recently implemented an anti-adblock technique, locking out users with adblock enabled. uBO recently successfully cracked other anti-adblock techniques, like those used on the german newspaper BILD.de, therefore I wonder if you have any ideas on how to crack this one as well.

URL(s) where the issue occurs

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/

Describe the issue

When uBlock Origin is installed, the user will be redirected to http://www.sueddeutsche.de/adblock immediately after visiting http://www.sueddeutsche.de/, cannot read any articles.

Screenshot

Versions

• Browser/version: Firefox, but affects other as well I guess
• uBlock Origin version: 1.9.12

Settings

I'm using "Easylist German" in addition to the default filter lists.

Appendix

A german security blogger investigated how many tracking and advertisement scripts are included by Sueddeutsche, and the results are quite shocking: https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a6f0d544 So disabling adblock is not a solution if you care for privacy.

[yoshimo]

Can you confirm that it doesn't appear if you disable cookies?

[mario98]

Indeed, if you disable cookies through Firefox' per-site permission manager, this doesn't appear. Maybe it's because if you are a registered user, you can continue to use adblock. (for some reason...) So when you disable cookies, this may break the detection of whether the user is registered. But disabling cookies by uMatrix on the other site doesn't work. You really have to block it through your webbroswer.

[gorhill]

@@||sueddeutsche.de^$generichide works here.

If you confirm it works, this should be submitted to EasyList Germany.

[mario98]

Works, but I noticed that uMatrix (all host files enabled) is then detected as the "ad-blocker".
But only if I use the filter rule, disabling cookies works even with uMatrix enabled. Sueddeutsche seems to check if a certain script can be executed. I found out that scrip.ioam.de is responsible for this. (If you enable this script in uMatrix, it's not detected any more.)

[yoshimo]

how about

www.sueddeutsche.de##script:contains(AdBlock)
instead?

http://pastebin.com/dPXJsrnV has the deminified source of http://media-cdn.sueddeutsche.de/globalassets/js/sde-header-desktop.js

maybe there is a nicer solution as well

[gorhill]

Should avoid using script:contains, ability to block execution of specific inline script tags will be removed in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286822.

[mario98]

That's bad news. I use this script:contains a lot for my private filter rules, because nearly half of the german websites use this stupid AdDefend now. script:contains(uabInject) or similar was the only thing that has worked... So sad that Google has so much power that they can just eliminate a web standard...

[gorhill]

Try ...##script:inject(uabinject-defuser.js). I stopped creating ...##script:contains(...) fitlers, now I favor what works on all browsers.

[yoshimo]

as far as i can see there is no uab function in that file so the ad defend thing won't help.

[gorhill]

I was just answering to

I use this script:contains a lot for my private filter rules, because nearly half of the german websites use this stupid AdDefend now. script:contains(uabInject) or similar was the only thing that has worked

[TonyTough]

They changed the Anti-Adblock-script:
Disabling Cookies no longer works, also
@@||sueddeutsche.de^$generichide
no longer works.

www.sueddeutsche.de##script:contains(AdBlock)
still works.

[ghosty141]

Actually it doesn't work for me anymore, Safari, uBlock 0.9.5.2

[okiehsch]

ublock 0.9.5.2, you are not using uBlock Origin , you are using uBlock.

[ghosty141]

Thanks! When I first installed uBlock there was no safari version out yet, thanks for pointing me to it! The problem remains though, even using the "www.sueddeutsche.de##script:contains(AdBlock)" filter it shows the adblock site ~90% of the time. Sometimes it does work, like when you click on anything but the front-page.