Ads Opening in Safari Without User Interaction?

[JALsnipe]

I've found when playing back some YouTube videos using this library, before the video even starts, Safari will open to a blank ad page. I've been able to reproduce this with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydv6j9CrPGo

Has anyone else experience this? Is there a better way to handle ad interruptions besides forcing the user out of the app and into Safari?

[dictav]

+1

I fixed this problem in this way: dictav@f10de44

[JALsnipe]

Nice this is great, thanks! Wouldn't this violate YouTube's Terms of Service though?

[JALsnipe]

@iulukaya What is the YouTube-sanctioned way to handle ads redirecting the user out of your app?

[khaledrepos]

I fixed it by adding another condition in the method shouldStartLoadWithRequest() that is located in the file YTPlayerView.m. The condition should intercept requests made to pubads.g.doubleclick.net.

else if ([request.URL.host isEqual: @"pubads.g.doubleclick.net"])
{
         return NO; 
} 

[JALsnipe]

Looks like @dictav's way of handling this has been sanctioned by @iulukaya and has been merged into the master branch.

#58

Closing this issue.

[stanislaw]

Could you please also update podspec so new version would have this change onboard? Thanks!