Ads technically appearing on animepahe, but are hidden from view

Description of the issue:
A new string of ads has started showing up on animepahe.ru and is not being blocked by Brave on my Android device. The ads are hidden and don’t show until I actually play on the video player I am attempting to use, so you won’t see it visibly in the screenshot I’m sending. This makes it challenging to navigate without resetting Brave Shields or refresh constantly.

Exact URL of the website in question:
https://animepahe.ru/play/e575d195-a44c-03fd-b8eb-a1c6274cdfcb/389164aab69e17038d6dd754c458039c103cccd624547060ac8df89a4b1a4ea6

Screenshot of the ad as it appears in Brave

Did the issue present with default Shields settings? (yes/no)
Yes

Does the site function as expected when Shields are turned off?
When Shields is not on, one can expect ads that make the website unnavigatable.

Is there a specific Shields configuration that causes the site to break? If so, tell us that configuration. (yes/no):

Yes, as cookies must be on to use the website.

Does the site work as expected when using Chrome?
Without an ad blocker, the website is virtually unusable on mobile.

Brave version (check About Brave):
1.66.120

Thanks for changing the category. I did not know about that. Animepahe

Same issue in all anime websites anix aniwave animesuge etc.

same thing happening with aniwave.to. consistently getting redirects although it was perfectly fine a week ago

aniwave.to is working here, no popups with shields up.

@fanboynz issue seems to be intermittent. After getting triggered, it can disappear for a while. Like originally it appeared whenever I touched the screen with MegaF and then also did it with Vidstream. But when I went to record, it didn’t do it. But as you can see, by time I got to Mp4Upload, it popped out ads any time I touched the player.

It seems Mp4upload tends to trigger this invisible overlay that pops open ads when you click on the player more than the others. The second worse is MegaF. Vidstream rarely had it, but would have the ads on occasion.

Testing here was done on iPhone, but should still be similar issue. It seems to kind of happen regardless of which host site you go to, as perhaps tied into the video players more than the site.

In video below, I was going between the different servers/video players. You see the ads occur around 0:35 or so, which I finally switch to Mp4upload. But just want to emphasize that prior to recording, it did also happen on some of the others like MegaF as well. It’s just a roll of the dice on whether it’ll serve an ad or be clear. Not sure how that works.

I guess this issue is appearing in a few anime websites then. I’m having similar problems with aniwave.to and continue to have the problems on animepahe.ru (they made this the domain for Canada for some reason…).

I’ve made some changes for animepahe into upstream, give it 3-4hrs. Should help with popups. Ensure shields, ad&trackers is up

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Gave it about 20 hours, the issue hasn’t been fixed yet (at least for me).

Testing brave://components Brave Ad Block Updater - Version: 1.0.6483 and shields up.

Got no popups

My testing

I tested it and recorded it here. Perhaps it’s because it’s on my mobile device (Android).

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