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clever google: httpS <--ok ad blockers, you have your hands full now

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superboyac:
So if you guys have noticed, google is sticking the https on all their stuff lately.  First, it started with their google searches, they are now default https whether you are logged in or not.  That's why you may have noticed the yellow ads at the top of your searches now, where your ad blocker would have blocked it before.  Also, for the first time in however many years, I am now seeing ads on youtube.  I have never seen Ad Muncher miss an add previously on youtube.  And i look up, and lo and behold, the https is there.

So google is now implementing this clever little trick.  So Ad Muncher, I hope you soon figure out how to block https.

superboyac:
Well this is not good news...straight from the developer of Ad Muncher's mouth:
I guess I wasn't being clear.

It's encrypted to prevent it from being read or modified.

That includes modifying it to remove the ads.

Ad Muncher will more than likely never filter https pages.
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Either another company will be able to figure out how to block it, or I'll probably say goodbye to youtube for the most part.  Already, i don't use it much anymore because it is quite an unpleasant experience and is only getting worse.  Good job google.  See ya.  I hope google remembers that it took off when it offered a much more pleasant search engine than yahoo and whatever else was around at the time.  Now, they are the ones making their own search and products unpleasant.  And the masses may be fine with it for now...until the new google alternative arrives.

4wd:
I've been running Google searches/mail over HTTPS for 3+ years - don't have any problem with ads.

Perhaps you need a better ad remover?

eg. AdBlock+ disabled

clever google: httpS <--ok ad blockers, you have your hands full now

AdBlock+ enabled

clever google: httpS <--ok ad blockers, you have your hands full now

rgdot:
Same as 4wd, AdBlock+, haven't seen yellow area in years.
(Google, any site really, with https is a good thing.)

app103:
Can't help with the youtube ads, but the ads in search can easily be hidden if you are a Firefox or K-Meleon user, with the userContent.css file.

I posted how here, about a year ago: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29245.msg271805#msg271805

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