elementary OS Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for developers and users of elementary OS and applications. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
I have the 'allow advertisements' checkbox unchecked in Epiphany 3.18.5. However, ads are not removed from web content.
-- EDIT --
For example, coming from Chrome with the AdBlock+ extension, the ads at the top of the Youtube homepage aren't blocked, nor are the ads in videos themselves. Neither are ads from AdChoices, for example the one on the right of this page.
Answer pulled from here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/470040/how-to-customize-or-debug-ad-blocking-on-gnome-web-epiphany-browser
Gnome-web blocks ads on the basis of the URI of the element. The blocking is
done by the UriTester componant (source code). Like Adblock plus, the tester
loads a list of patterns from a list, and determine if a URI is an ad if it
matches one of the pattern.
The file $HOME_DIR/.config/epiphany/adblock/filters.list contains the
locations of the lists to load (one on each line). If this file doesn't
exists (e.g. first time you run epiphany), it defaults to "https://easylist-
downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt". Gnome-web then download (and
periodically refresh) the pattern lists, and store them in the same
directory (with file name like bedc7ed868397c3dcaf6bc40ed9bbf70)
So, in case of troubles, check that you have filters.list, with one line
pointing to a valid adblock+ filter, and one file with a file name of 32 hex
chars, containing valid blocking pattern. If the file filters.list exists,
but is empty, ads won't be filtered at all.
It is also possible to customize the list used by changing the url in
filter.list (for instance replacing the default list with a localised list
like https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/liste_fr+easylist.txt).
