Brave-browser: ads not being blocked on https://www.orizzontescuola.it

[angelog0]

Accidentally I deleted %LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware folder, so restarted Brave and reconfigured it as usual recreating that folder. Now there is at least a site where the Brave shields are less functional, there are only 12 blocks and the site appears so:

I see this both with 1.13.82 and with current 1.13.86 version of Brave. Notice that the original BraveSoftware folder was created when I installed Brave 1.11.101.

I have another system with Brave updated to current 1.13.86 but on which I still have the BraveSoftware folder created with 1.11.101! so I just copied it completely on the "broken" system and the site appears as it should be, with 29 shields:

Any idea about what happened?

Thanks

[diracdeltas]

i'm guessing this is because brave didn't redownload the resources that are needed for adblock / tracking protection after you deleted the folder. IIRC it downloads on first run and then periodically checks for updates. so eventually it probably would have gotten those files.

[angelog0]

I have reinstalled from scratch cleaning registry etc. Same result. I have to use the profile folder from the other PC installation to see that page without publicity.

[rebron]

@ryanbr I just tried loading https://www.orizzontescuola.it/ and got quite a few ads, blocked 15 resources and @angelog0 is reporting that we were blocking ads more efficiently on this website. Any ideas?

I don't think this is a profile or moving profiles issue.

[kjozwiak]

As @rebron mentioned above, this definitely seems like a adblock issue rather than a profile one. I went through all our channels and the same page is being loaded with the ads on the side.

1.17.32 CR: 86.0.4240.80 (Nightly) | 1.16.62 CR: 86.0.4240.80 (Beta) | 1.15.75 CR: 86.0.4240.99 (Release)
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[ryanbr]

@angelog0 The differences between them could be related to what list is enabled in brave://adblock . If you enable Easylist Italy, it should show more blocked items in Shields

[ryanbr]

Regarding the site, reaching out to Easylist Italy author to get the page cleaned up.

[ryanbr]

I've checked all 3 browsers, Release, Beta and Nightly. Installed Easylist Italy from brave://adblock

@angelog0 All 3 browsers seem to blocking the ads, can you confirm?

[angelog0]

I see that Easylist Italy is already enabled in recent Brave versions and that the ads are blocked. Thanks.

[ryanbr]

Great to see, everything now working? Safe to close this ticket @angelog0 ?

[angelog0]

Yes, I will close... done!