Bug#806325: epiphany-browser: AdBlock does not seem to be working

Matijs van Zuijlen matijs at matijs.net
Thu Nov 26 15:11:44 UTC 2015


Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 3.18.1-1
Severity: normal

There doesn't seem to be any difference setting 'Allow advertisements'
to true or false in the settings. For example, the following page shows
several ads either way:

http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Epiphany-Ad-Block

Also, this page shows 'Not working' for both methods:

http://simple-adblock.com/faq/testing-your-adblocker/

Regards,
Matijs

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                     1.10.4-1
ii  epiphany-browser-data        3.18.1-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme             3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic    3.12.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas    3.18.1-1
ii  iso-codes                    3.63-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                  2.18.0-1
ii  libavahi-client3             0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1
ii  libavahi-common3             0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1
ii  libavahi-gobject0            0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1
ii  libc6                        2.19-22
ii  libcairo-gobject2            1.14.4-1
ii  libcairo2                    1.14.4-1
ii  libgck-1-0                   3.18.0-1
ii  libgcr-base-3-1              3.18.0-1
ii  libgcr-ui-3-1                3.18.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0           2.32.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.46.2-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-12        3.18.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                   3.18.5-1
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18  2.10.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libnotify4                   0.7.6-2
ii  libnspr4                     2:4.11-1
ii  libnss3                      2:3.21-1
ii  libp11-kit0                  0.23.1-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0               1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0          1.38.1-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                0.18.3-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                 2.52.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                 3.9.2-1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37         2.10.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libwnck-3-0                  3.14.0-2
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxml2                      2.9.2+zdfsg1-4
ii  libxslt1.1                   1.1.28-2.1

Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20150426
ii  evince           3.18.2-1
ii  yelp             3.16.1-1

epiphany-browser suggests no packages.

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