YouTube Ads in Video Grid

[jonathansampson]

Description

Ads are often displayed in the first video slot on the Home page of youtube.com.

While Brave's aggressive mode is able to hide these, it leaves an empty container where the video element would have existed.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to youtube.com (logged-in)
   2 Select Home from the left

Actual result:

User is often shown ad ad-result in the first video slot.

Expected result:

User should be able to block these elements, without leaving an empty region on the page.

Reproduces how often:

Not always, but often.

Desktop Brave version:

Testing in 1.14.84

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? TBD
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? TBD

[ryanbr]

I mostly fixed this in easylist/easylist@7e39a57 which removed the advert people were complaining about, but didn't collapse the advert.

uBO callapses this element with youtube.com##ytd-display-ad-renderer:upward(2) in https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/filters.txt @antonok-edm

[antonok-edm]

Will need support for procedural cosmetic filter implementations in both brave-core and adblock-rust.

[jcosentino]

I wanted to report that I am also experiencing this:

I tried adding this filter:
youtube.com##ytd-display-ad-renderer:upward(2)

But this was to no avail.

[nithinkodadhavadee]

I know you guys are still working on this, but just another update. I got this too, I didn't have this until now but I can see ads everywhere. Video ads, banners, everywhere on youtube.

even in google search

[0x802]

Please remove this ad !!

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The xpath for the ad is :

/html/body/ytd-app/div[1]/ytd-page-manager/ytd-browse/ytd-two-column-browse-results-renderer/div[1]/ytd-rich-grid-renderer/div[3]/ytd-ad-slot-renderer/div/ytd-page-top-ad-layout-renderer/div/ytd-video-masthead-ad-v3-renderer/div/div[2]/ytd-video-masthead-ad-primary-video-renderer/div[2]/a