Twitter Ad Injection

[jeo1]

On https://twitter.com/jacquesgallant Twitter inserted ads under the title "Suggested by Twitter".
The ad only appeared when I was logged into Twitter.
It did not show up 100% of the time.

Using:
-uBlock 0.9.3.0
-Chrome 41.0.2272.118 m
-Windows 7

Disable all other extensions and ad still showed up

Thank you very much.

[gorhill]

I don't remember ever seeing these sponsored entries on Twitter.

What are your selected filter lists? Custom filters? Dynamic filtering rules?

When this occurs, I would like you to open the dev console for the page, I want to see if there are errors reported on the page.

[jeo1]

I only started seeing these ads a day or two ago.
It just occurred to me that I have been using chrome with sandboxie and because of that the filter updates get deleted each time I clear the sand box.
So there is a good chance this is just another problems caused by an idiot user.

I have been using:
uBlock filters‎
uBlock filters – Privacy‎
EasyList
Peter Lowe's Ad server list
EasyPrivacy
Malware Domain List
Malware domains
Malware domains (long-lived)

I have no custom rules in place.

[gorhill]

EasyList is the one taking care of the sponsored tweets.

If you use the element picker to selected that tweet entry, what are the suggested filters? I would like to see if they are as they should be, i.e. there is one matching the proper filter in EasyList.

[gorhill]

By the way, I can't get that "Sponsored by Twitter" entry, even without uBlock. I do get sponsored stuff -- marked with an orange label -- but I can't get that big one in there. Maybe because of some kind of targeting? (hence why it would happen only when you are logged in).

When I get a sponsored entry (with uBlock disabled), there is never a big "Sponsored by Twitter" header at the top, it's more discreet.

[Betsy25]

I do get them (different, personalized? content) when having cosmetic filtering disabled, but with consmetic filtering enabled, the Easylist takes care of them over here.

[gorhill]

@Betsy25 I can get sponsored/promoted entries with uBlock off, but I never saw one with a big header "Suggested by Twitter".

[Betsy25]

@jeo1 If you see one again, click the eye-dropper icon in the uBlock₀ popup, and try to highlight the whole rectangle of the sponsored item (not part of it, try to highlight it completely, takes a bit of pinpointing) before clicking, and copy/paste the rule it gives you.

@gorhill Well as soon as I disable cosmetic filtering, I can get one (most of the time):

[gorhill]

@jeo1 Did you turn off the badge which shows the blocked count? Normally when loading a twitter page, it should already show a couple of blocked requests.

[jeo1]

Still waiting to see more these ads.
@Betsy25 will do.
@gorhill nope have not turn it off.

[jeo1]

I was using a different computer, same filters as before, every thing is up to date.

###stream-item-tweet-565314759743270912 > .js-expansion-container.expansion-container > .opened-tweet.is-loaded.ProfileTweet--promoted.leadgen-card-forward.has-cards.js-send-impression-cookie.is-promoted.ProfileTweet--high.js-actionable-tweet.js-stream-tweet.js-tweet.u-textBreak.ProfileTweet

Cosmetic filters Click, Ctrl-click
##.opened-tweet.is-loaded.ProfileTweet--promoted.leadgen-card-forward.has-cards.js-send-impression-cookie.is-promoted.ProfileTweet--high.js-actionable-tweet.js-stream-tweet.js-tweet.u-textBreak.ProfileTweet
##.js-expansion-container.expansion-container
###stream-item-tweet-565314759743270912
##.Grid-cell
##.Grid:nth-of-type(5)
##.GridTimeline-items
##.GridTimeline
##.u-lg-size2of3.Grid-cell
##.Grid--withGutter.Grid
##.u-lg-size3of4.u-size2of3.Grid-cell
##.Grid--withGutter.Grid
##.u-cf.AppContent-main
##.AppContainer
###page-container
###page-outer
###doc

edit: Same style of ad showed up when I disable the other extensions.

[jeo1]

Just purge all filter caches, then updated them. Not seeing the ad.

[gorhill]

Still, I checked all the cosmetic filters you pasted above, and none of them was a hit on EasyList. EasyList contains these Twitter-specific cosmetic filters:

twitter.com##.promoted-account
twitter.com##.promoted-trend
twitter.com##.promoted-tweet
twitter.com##.promotion
twitter.com##.stream-item[data-item-type="tweet"][data-item-id*=":"]
twitter.com##li[label="promoted"]

And none in your report is a match. On my side I get:

[...]
###timeline
###page-container
###page-outer
###doc

And yours is:

##.AppContainer
###page-container
###page-outer
###doc

I get ###timeline, you get .AppContainer.

Did you give access to some apps/hooks in your twitter account?

[jeo1]

TweetDeck and Twitter for Android.

[jeo1]

Revoked both of them, but I would be very surprised if either were the responsible.

[gorhill]

There might be a theme to these ads? The two I see in your pics are related to computer security.

[gorhill]

https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29527

Related?

[jeo1]

I think your right, the ads are targeted (I follow a number of people who are linked to information security). I wonder if Twitter is testing a new ad system.

[jeo1]

That exact ad was first one of this sort I saw.

[gorhill]

Ok, I see EasyList was updated today with a filter which matches one of the selector you listed above:

https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/6a769b9e7dfe

.is-promoted

So case closed?

[jeo1]

I think so, sorry for the trouble.