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Totally off topic, but I was reading the article on Fennec (mobile Firefox clone) while playing music over Bluetooth to my car. I was parked waiting for someone, not driving. No streaming service, playing honest to god mp3s from my device, when out of the blue I got VPN ads over the speaker.
Fennec indicated that cnet was playing them, but there as was no video box or other audio player widget active, so it looks like they are splicing invisible audio ads in somehow?
I'm also using ublock origin on mobile plus AdAway (rooted), so that's not an easy feat.
Could anyone double check? That's the most obnoxious behavior I've experienced in recent time.
Are you sure there wasn't a video at the top or bottom of the web page? What you were listening to is kind if irrelevant, since if some other media starts playing it'll pause whatever media was playing before.
Nope there wasn't anything visible, I've been scrolling up and down to verify. Unless the video was somehow truncated or scaled to 1x1 px or something.
Using Firefox. I just had this same experience (- the car) but yeah, I couldn't find any vid to stop. I ended up just muting the phone
I used the volume controls for the website in my phone's pulldown menu to stop it, then the music player resumed. Still very much unwanted behavior. Will dig into the page source and see if there's anything hidden.
It's not a Firefox clone, it is Firefox.
It's a clone of the official Firefox repo stripped of all telemetry.
Using Firefox focus and zenarmour on my firewall. Same problem.
I'll do some digging in the code and see if I can come up with a custom filter for ublock.