deezer.com: ads / breakage

[nappfun]

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URL address of the web page

https://www.deezer.com/fr/profile/29206981/loved

Category

breakage

Description

Les publicités sont de nouveaux audible depuis le 21 janvier plus au moins, au même rythme que si ublockorigin n'existait pas...
Deezer ne le détecte pas, mais ça ne fonctionne plus non plus

[translation: The advertisements have been audible again since January 21.]

Other extensions used

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Screenshot(s)

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Configuration

uBlock Origin: 1.55.0
Chromium: 121
filterset (summary):
 network: 155730
 cosmetic: 99058
 scriptlet: 37882
 html: 0
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
 added:
  adguard-generic: 81855-677, now
  adguard-mobile: 9081-49, now
 default:
  user-filters: 1-0, never
  FRA-0: 26969-40, now
  easylist: 79607-1893, now
  easyprivacy: 43562-381, now
  plowe-0: 3783-1268, now
  ublock-badware: 7791-336, now
  ublock-filters: 36657-3553, now
  ublock-privacy: 992-6, now
  ublock-quick-fixes: 128-6, now
  ublock-unbreak: 2192-103, now
  urlhaus-1: 8745-0, now
filterset (user): [array of 1 redacted]
trustedset:
 added: [array of 3 redacted]
switchRuleset:
 added: [array of 2 redacted]
userSettings: [none]
hiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats:
 allReadyAfter: 297 ms (selfie)
 maxAssetCacheWait: 214 ms
 cacheBackend: browser.storage.local
popupPanel:
 blocked: 6
 no-cosmetic-filtering: true
 no-popups: true
 network:
  braze.com: 2
  googletagmanager.com: 1
  hubvisor.io: 2
  sentry.io: 1
 extended:
  ##.css-tzddi9
  ##+js(set-constant, smartLoaded, true)
  ##+js(no-setTimeout-if, Ads)

[gorhill]

Can you provide exact details about how to reproduce? It will save time if we know exactly what to do, otherwise I don't think anybody is going to take this one without knowing for sure how to reproduce at will in the least time possible.

[nappfun]

Bonjour, J'ouvre simplement google chrome sous windows 11 et lance mes coups de coeurs ou une playlist sur deezer.com/fr La musique est à nouveau bien présente, de façon aléatoire comme d'habitude avec deezer, mais généralement après la 1ère chanson et toutes les 3 ou 5 chansons... Plus rien ne bloque les publicités sonores. Je ne pourrais en dire plus Good morning, *** "I simply open Google Chrome under Windows 11 and launch my searches. hearts or a playlist on deezer.com/fr The music is present again, randomly as usual with deezer, but generally after the 1st song and every 3 or 5 songs... Nothing blocks sound advertisements anymore. I couldn't say more"

[nappfun]

Depuis hier, de façon aléatoire, les publicités sonores sont à nouveau audibles. Toutes ne sont plus bloquée. Après un certain moment, le visuel en bas de page marque "publicité" laissant penser qu'il y'en avait effectivement une, on ne l'entend pas, mais tout se bloque. Ca reste bloqué sur "publicité" et la musique ne continue plus.
Obliger de rafraichir la page pour recommencer la lecture...

Deezer a probablement encore légérement modifié son script :/

[Translation (ItsProfessional): Since yesterday, randomly, the audio ads are audible again. Not all of them are blocked anymore. After a while, the visual at the bottom of the page marks "advertisement" suggesting that there was indeed one, we don't hear it, but everything freezes. It gets stuck on "advertising" and the music doesn't continue anymore.]

[bergerst]

In this case, ads were enabled on the Deezer side again for some European users, I think.

1 year ago they did the same thing and then it fixed itself after a few weeks: #13571 (comment)

Any custom rules in that old issue only break the player. I've tested this rule and the Javascript throws an error that the noopmp3-0.5s response does not have certain headers:

||cmodmedia*.live.streamtheworld.com/media/appnexus-audio*$media,redirect=noopmp3-0.5s,domain=deezer.com
||redirector.gvt1.com/videoplayback/*/itag/*/source/dclk_video_ads/*$media,redirect=noopmp3-0.5s,domain=deezer.com

The first ones are ads for playlists/artists, the second one are ads for other companies.

I can provide more details if needed, but I don't know enough about the inner workings of uBlock Origin to find a solution.

[stephenhawk8054]

I think we can only investigate with the exact accounts that have ads.

[ItsProfessional]

@bergerst Can you please create a new firefox profile, create a new deezer account and test if you get ads there? If not, go back to your main profile and check if you still get ads there.

[bergerst]

It might be reproducible by setting https://www.deezer.com/account/country_selector to the affected countries, in this case at least France and Austria.

The main problem with debugging is that the pattern of when ads are played seems random. Sometimes it happens after 5 titles, sometimes after 3 hours of playback.

[ItsProfessional]

@bergerst None of us is able to reproduce ads on the site. As your words say,

In this case, ads were enabled on the Deezer side again for some European users, I think.

It might be only applied to a fraction of the accounts on the site. Perhaps we'll be able to reproduce with such an account. Are you willing to share your credentials?

[Inhama]

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/assets/114201338/c58643f9-62ab-40e7-a2a4-58119372705f

In Canada:
Same issue but Advertisement would just stop playback after 6 songs on Flow mode, unable to skip the advert, unable to play next song. Just silence, have to reload page.

[nappfun]

I still have this problem reported. More and more frequently

#23530 (comment)

[nappfun]

Hello,
Since yesterday, on the web application (chrome & edge), it is no longer possible to launch music: this is blocked directly by an advertisement which makes the use of deezer impossible. Is there a possibility of achieving something? Or am I the only one in this situation? THANKS

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Depuis hier, sur l'application web (chrome & edge), plus aucun lancement de musique n'est réalisable maintenant: cela est bloqué directement par une publicité qui rend l'utilisation de deezer impossible. Y'a t il une possibilité de réaliser quelque chose ou suis je le seul dans ce cas? merci

[doctorsketch]

I have audio ads playing too. Country set to United Kingdom. Updated my uBlockOrigin and made no difference.

Free tier Deezer account on this playlist: https://www.deezer.com/en/playlist/1996494362

[nappfun]

En passant d'un compte à un autre, le soucis est généralisé... Il semblerait qu'il y'ait des formats de publicités plus agressive qui ne sont pas supportée par ublock et bloque le lecteur web obligeant de rafraichir la page.
Le problème: elles sont de plus en plus nombreuses dans ce cas et souvent au tout début... rendant l'utilisation de deezer impossible avec ublock

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When switching from one account to another, the problem is generalized... It seems that there are more aggressive advertising formats which are not supported by ublock and block the web reader forcing the page to be refreshed.
The problem: there are more and more of them in this case and often at the very beginning... making the use of deezer impossible with ublock