#912 Annoying ads that Privoxy can't block

[Tyrexionibus]

Hello,

I'm writing this support request because there are ads that Privoxy seem not to be catching anymore. A bunch of months have passed since the problem appeared; Privoxy was able to catch them before!

Take THIS LINK as an example; it's a song download service from Zippyshare: http://www12.zippyshare.com/v/64444425/file.html

I see ADS under "Advertisements" section! I didn't see them some months ago! What's happened?

(See attachment for details; however, ads may vary)

Please provide SUPPORT. The ad-blocking aggressiveness is set to HIGH, but with no effort. I see them all the same!

The configuration is set to MEDIUM. I don't wanna set it to "Advanced" because the cookie-killing feature would stop most websites from working. However, ad-blocking aggressiveness is HIGH both in "Medium" and in "Advanced" mode.

MY CONFIGURATION:
Mac OS X 10.7.5 "Lion"
Firefox 27.0
Privoxy running on 127.0.0.1:8118
No system firewall, Little Snitch enabled (outgoing firewall, no issue)
No other proxies

WHAT ACTIONS APPLY TO "http://www12.zippyshare.com/v/64444425/file.html" ? (Why is the problem appearing?)
In match-all.action:
{+change-x-forwarded-for{block}
+client-header-tagger{css-requests}
+client-header-tagger{image-requests}
+deanimate-gifs{last}
+filter{refresh-tags}
+filter{img-reorder}
+filter{banners-by-size}
+filter{webbugs}
+filter{jumping-windows}
+filter{ie-exploits}
+hide-from-header{block}
+hide-referrer{conditional-block}
+session-cookies-only
+set-image-blocker{pattern} }
/

In default.action:
{-handle-as-image }
/.*\.(js|php|css|.?html?)

In user.action:
(no matches in this file)

FINAL RESULTS for "http://www12.zippyshare.com/v/64444425/file.html" :
+change-x-forwarded-for{block}
+client-header-tagger{css-requests}
+client-header-tagger{image-requests}
+deanimate-gifs{last}
+filter{refresh-tags}
+filter{img-reorder}
+filter{banners-by-size}
+filter{webbugs}
+filter{jumping-windows}
+filter{ie-exploits}
+hide-from-header{block}
+hide-referrer{conditional-block}
+session-cookies-only
+set-image-blocker{pattern}

-add-header
-block
-client-header-filter
-content-type-overwrite
-crunch-client-header
-crunch-if-none-match
-crunch-incoming-cookies
-crunch-outgoing-cookies
-crunch-server-header
-downgrade-http-version
-fast-redirects
-force-text-mode
-forward-override
-handle-as-empty-document
-handle-as-image
-hide-accept-language
-hide-content-disposition
-hide-if-modified-since
-hide-user-agent
-limit-connect
-limit-cookie-lifetime
-overwrite-last-modified
-prevent-compression
-redirect
-server-header-filter
-server-header-tagger

WITH this configuration, I'm still seeing the ads you can see in the attachment file.

Please help.

MY LOGIN: tyrexionibus

Thanks in advance for your support!

[Tyrexionibus]

Example of ads appearing on described URL

[Fabian Keil]

Thanks for the report.

Try adding:

{+block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document -handle-as-image}
.adcash.com/script/

to one of your action files. If it works, we can add the block to the default configuration.

Looks like the ads should only appear with JavaScript enabled, so you might also want to consider not allowing untrusted sites to execute code on your system.

[Mathew Murphy]

The ads which are blocked my way come from "adcash.com"
2014-01-01 22:56:15.070 00000010 Crunch: Blocked: http://www.adcash.com/script/java.php?option=rotateur&rotateur=132418
2014-01-01 22:56:15.090 00000002 Crunch: Blocked: http://www.adcash.com/script/java.php?option=rotateur&rotateur=146355
2014-01-01 22:56:15.100 00000002 Crunch: Blocked: http://www.adcash.com/script/java.php?option=rotateur&rotateur=137046
2014-01-01 22:56:15.110 00000002 Crunch: Blocked: http://www.adcash.com/script/java.php?option=rotateur&rotateur=125524
2014-01-01 22:57:41.080 00000002 Crunch: Blocked: http://www.adcash.com/script/java.php?option=rotateur&rotateur=125524
2014-01-01 22:57:41.080 00000003 Crunch: Blocked: http://www.adcash.com/script/java.php?option=rotateur&rotateur=146355
2014-01-01 22:57:41.090 00000004 Crunch: Blocked: http://www.adcash.com/script/java.php?option=rotateur&rotateur=132418
2014-01-01 22:57:41.090 00000005 Crunch: Blocked: http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js

You can add your own lines in your own action file or use a default action file.

[Tyrexionibus]

OK, I'll try adding the lines

"{+block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document -handle-as-image}
.adcash.com/script/" (without "", 1st option)

to the default action file. How do I do this? AND, should I add the "{Might be a web-bug.}" line too? Or should the line be

"{+block +handle-as-empty-document -handle-as-image}
.adcash.com/script/" (2nd option)

?

Thanks for your support. I'll feedback this to you if it works.

[Tyrexionibus]

Sorry for my stupidity, LOL.

I guess I should add a line like this to the match-all.action file:

+block +handle-as-empty-document -handle-as-image

but where do I insert ".adcash.com/script/" ?

[Tyrexionibus]

Added to user.action as
+block "Reason: Might be a web bug."
+handle-as-empty-document
-handle-as-image

IT WORKS FLAWLESSLY! No images displayed!

Thank you for your help, I guess the same method would work for other websites.100% positive feedback for this!

[Mathew Murphy]

I use the following in my blockweb action file
{+block{BlockWeb} +handle-as-image}
adcash.com

Glad to hear it's all good.