Show on-page dialog to users who encounter YouTube's ad wall
Background
Some websites put up an ad wall for restricting access to certain visitors. Recently, we've been seeing similar experiments on YouTube and would therefore like to show an on-page dialog for users who see that wall, in order to provide them with helpful information on what they can do.
Related Adblock Plus issue: https://gitlab.com/adblockinc/ext/adblockplus/adblockplusui/-/issues/1513 Note: an issue in ABP was found during testing of the 3.22 release related to the code that was implemented for a similar issue in ABP. The fix to avoid the issue is in this MR.
What to change
- Design: The latest version of this solution, AKA the 'landing page' option is visible here.
- Research: Current documentation can be found on our Notion page
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Development:
- Detect YouTube's ad wall.
- Locally trigger showing an on-page dialog using some predefined content, depending on on whether YouTube is allowlisted.
- No translations for the dialog content necessary for now. Those will be provided in a subsequent release. Until then, the dialog should be shown to all users.
Hints for testers
TBD
Edited by Brent M