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Has this always been there or did my ad blocker for Chrome finally give in to RealGM's demands?

Yeah since yesterday I have these weird black boxes between threads that I can't seem to get rid of. And I have Adblocker. Hopefully it goes away soon! Really annoying!

Man it's even between posts in the thread...

Duffman100 wrote:Man it's even between posts in the thread...

Chromes changes from manifest v2 to v3 are basically breaking tons of ad blockers permanently. They've been making changes for a while but only pushing the changes recently and rolling it out slowly (IIRC).

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/06/google-makes-life-hard-for-ad-blockers-by-changes-in-chrome

FWIW I don't see those (yet) and I use ublock origin which is widely regarded as the best for chromium browsers, but that will also eventually break. Your best bet is using a browser like Firefox, or Brave moving forward. FF still has v2 support with no plans to deprecate. All extensions should work there too, since they are all based off chromium.

Yeah this site is overloaded with ads from top to bottom & one of the slowest loading there is lol

I switched to duckduckgo browser and it's been working well.

Only thing I hate is that I either have to choose having 0 ads with no way of viewing embedded tweets or view embedded tweets but with ads everywhere.

I haven't seen this much spamming since Mike James played for the Raptors.

Duffman100 wrote:Has this always been there or did my ad blocker for Chrome finally give in to RealGM's demands?

If you have AdBlock for Chrome, try this:

- click AdBlock icon in toolbar > Gear Icon (Options) > Customize
- Under "Manually edit your filters", click Edit button
- input ##.adthrive-ad.adthrive-content and click save.
- reload the site, that should hide the ads. The rule works for me.

Duffman100 wrote:Has this always been there or did my ad blocker for Chrome finally give in to RealGM's demands?

Ad block on a recent update changed the settings on a what ads were allowed to get through. If you click on the "why this ad" it takes you to the settings page and just de-select everything and the ads will be gone.

Scase wrote:

Duffman100 wrote:Man it's even between posts in the thread...

Chromes changes from manifest v2 to v3 are basically breaking tons of ad blockers permanently. They've been making changes for a while but only pushing the changes recently and rolling it out slowly (IIRC).

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/06/google-makes-life-hard-for-ad-blockers-by-changes-in-chrome

FWIW I don't see those (yet) and I use ublock origin which is widely regarded as the best for chromium browsers, but that will also eventually break. Your best bet is using a browser like Firefox, or Brave moving forward. FF still has v2 support with no plans to deprecate. All extensions should work there too, since they are all based off chromium.

uBlock Lite is available for MV3. I tested it for about a month and it worked well.

Spida888 wrote:

Duffman100 wrote:Has this always been there or did my ad blocker for Chrome finally give in to RealGM's demands?

If you have AdBlock for Chrome, try this:

- click AdBlock icon in toolbar > Gear Icon (Options) > Customize
- Under "Manually edit your filters", click Edit button
- input ##.adthrive-ad.adthrive-content and click save.
- reload the site, that should hide the ads. The rule works for me.

This works, amazing!

Raps in 4 wrote:

Scase wrote:

Duffman100 wrote:Man it's even between posts in the thread...

Chromes changes from manifest v2 to v3 are basically breaking tons of ad blockers permanently. They've been making changes for a while but only pushing the changes recently and rolling it out slowly (IIRC).

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/06/google-makes-life-hard-for-ad-blockers-by-changes-in-chrome

FWIW I don't see those (yet) and I use ublock origin which is widely regarded as the best for chromium browsers, but that will also eventually break. Your best bet is using a browser like Firefox, or Brave moving forward. FF still has v2 support with no plans to deprecate. All extensions should work there too, since they are all based off chromium.

uBlock Lite is available for MV2. I tested it for about a month and it worked well.

Until they decide to kneecap it further

I plan on just migrating from Chrome anyways, it's become much too bloaty and they constantly make garbage UI changes that no one asked for, and make it a worse product.

OakleyDokely wrote:I haven't seen this much spamming since Mike James played for the Raptors.

Mike James was hella efficient and awesome in that year!

OakleyDokely wrote:I haven't seen this much spamming since Mike James played for the Raptors.

Threads are loading at the speed of a Jose Calderon possession

Spida888 wrote:

Duffman100 wrote:Has this always been there or did my ad blocker for Chrome finally give in to RealGM's demands?

If you have AdBlock for Chrome, try this:

- click AdBlock icon in toolbar > Gear Icon (Options) > Customize
- Under "Manually edit your filters", click Edit button
- input ##.adthrive-ad.adthrive-content and click save.
- reload the site, that should hide the ads. The rule works for me.

Tried but failed for me, ads showed up black for a second or two, then reloaded and displayed. Tried ublock lite as per Raps in 4 rec, and it worked to block the ads now. Pages are loading WAY faster too now.

Maybe YMMV.

Tofubeque wrote:

OakleyDokely wrote:I haven't seen this much spamming since Mike James played for the Raptors.

Threads are loading at the speed of a Jose Calderon possession

Try the ublock lite, i just put it on and everything loading way faster.

Scase wrote:

Raps in 4 wrote:

Scase wrote:Chromes changes from manifest v2 to v3 are basically breaking tons of ad blockers permanently. They've been making changes for a while but only pushing the changes recently and rolling it out slowly (IIRC).

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/06/google-makes-life-hard-for-ad-blockers-by-changes-in-chrome

FWIW I don't see those (yet) and I use ublock origin which is widely regarded as the best for chromium browsers, but that will also eventually break. Your best bet is using a browser like Firefox, or Brave moving forward. FF still has v2 support with no plans to deprecate. All extensions should work there too, since they are all based off chromium.

uBlock Lite is available for MV2. I tested it for about a month and it worked well.

Until they decide to kneecap it further

I plan on just migrating from Chrome anyways, it's become much too bloaty and they constantly make garbage UI changes that no one asked for, and make it a worse product.

I used Firefox for like 15 years until Edge enticed me away with their vertical tabs. Now I'll just be going back to FF lol (thankfully, they're finally working on vertical tabs after like 5 years of begging from the community). Brave is another option. It's Chronium but they maintain their own built-in adblock solution that won't be affected by the migration to MV3.

Raps in 4 wrote:

Scase wrote:

Raps in 4 wrote:
uBlock Lite is available for MV2. I tested it for about a month and it worked well.

Until they decide to kneecap it further

I plan on just migrating from Chrome anyways, it's become much too bloaty and they constantly make garbage UI changes that no one asked for, and make it a worse product.

I used Firefox for like 15 years until Edge enticed me away with their vertical tabs. Now I'll just be going back to FF lol (thankfully, they're finally working on vertical tabs after like 5 years of begging from the community). Brave is another option. It's Chronium but they maintain their own built-in adblock solution that won't be affected by the migration to MV3.

Yeah brave is actually quite good from the times I've used it, it's a solid option. I'm the same as you, I used to be a die hard FF user and that's why I'm more inclined to go back lol

Duffman100 wrote:Has this always been there or did my ad blocker for Chrome finally give in to RealGM's demands?

I highly recommend migrating away from Chrome for too many reasons to list here.

Brave is a million times better and doesn't even require any adblockers.

Realgm has plenty of unsecure / semi-malicious javascript being injected into the site also.

Yall need someone to implement a proper CSP.