Brave-browser: [Desktop] Ads on Google search pages

[GrigoriyMikhalkin]

Description

Recently, ads started to appear on Google search pages. I tried to switch Trackers & ads blocking from Standard to Aggressive -- it didn't helped.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Search "google it" in Google

Actual result:

You see adds above actual search results

Expected result:

No ads

Reproduces how often:

Always.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 1.13.82 Chromium: 85.0.4183.83 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision | 94abc2237ae0c9a4cb5f035431c8adfb94324633-refs/branch-heads/4183@{#1658}
OS | Linux

[ryanbr]

Hey @GrigoriyMikhalkin Is this still occuring? (well in Version 1.14.81)

[GrigoriyMikhalkin]

@ryanbr Hi, yep, still occuring for me.

[ryanbr]

Unless there is a possible extension inserting google ads. I would test in private-window mode with no extension (or possibly a new Brave profile as a test)

Here is what I see:

[bsclifton]

@GrigoriyMikhalkin I may know what the problem is- let's try the following:

1. Visit brave://components/
2. Find Brave Ad Block Updater mine is set as version 1.0.706 (what is yours?)
3. Click the Check for update button
4. Try closing / re-opening Brave

Let us know if this solves - you may have gotten a bad component update (not sure how that happens) or maybe the download of the component was blocked?

[GrigoriyMikhalkin]

@ryanbr, @bsclifton Thanks for help!

@ryanbr Indeed, it was one of my extensions -- it actually was adding ads to Google and Bing search pages.

[bsclifton]

@GrigoriyMikhalkin perfect! thanks for the update 😄 Glad you found it!

[ryanbr]

Great to see it was resolved, which extension was causing it @GrigoriyMikhalkin ? (if you don't mind me asking)

[GrigoriyMikhalkin]

@ryanbr It was some website color picker extension from Chrome Store. Unfortunately, i rushed deleting it and didn't remember which one exactly(name was "Color picker" which is very generic, there's a lot of of extensions with same name). ( And i'm pretty sure, it started adding ads only after some time after it was installed.