google.com: ads (new experiment by Google ?)

[untitlese5566]

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URL address of the web page

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=making%20your%20own%20bot%20protection%20waf

Category

ads

Description

Google seems to have added a new ad unit called "People also consider" that shows search queries for sponsored products related to your search, and uBlock Origin does not yet block it.
Per Google's own description when you click the vertical ellipses (⋮):

This is a sponsored unit placed by Google. This type of unit is always labeled with “Sponsored”. It provides commercial search suggestions related to your search terms. The suggestions are ranked using a number of factors, including relevance to your search terms, and likelihood of showing Ads.

Browser name

Firefox 140.0.4 (64-bit)

Other extensions used

Dark Reader, but the ad is still there even if I disable it from the extensions menu.

Country

Canada

Screenshot(s)

Screenshot(s)

Configuration

uBlock Origin: 1.64.0
Firefox: 140
filterset (summary):
 network: 160962
 cosmetic: 117746
 scriptlet: 30431
 html: 2604
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
 added:
  https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/ublock/filters/14.txt: 87952-268, now
  ublock-annoyances: 4503-150, now
 default:
  user-filters: 110-1, never
  ublock-filters: 40142-280, now
  ublock-badware: 11248-17, now
  ublock-privacy: 3292-2, now
  ublock-unbreak: 2710-5, now
  easylist: 72095-270, now
  easyprivacy: 54227-1414, now
  urlhaus-1: 35230-0, 1h.5m
  plowe-0: 3416-893, now
  ublock-quick-fixes: 281-22, now
filterset (user): [array of 114 redacted]
trustedset:
 added: [array of 9 redacted]
switchRuleset:
 added: [array of 7 redacted]
hostRuleset:
 added: [array of 1567 redacted]
userSettings:
 advancedUserEnabled: true
hiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats:
 allReadyAfter: 968 ms (selfie)
 maxAssetCacheWait: 378 ms
 cacheBackend: indexedDB
popupPanel:
 blocked: 18
 network:
  google.com: 13
  adobedtm.com: 1
  cloudflareinsights.com: 1
  cookielaw.org: 2
  discourse-cdn.com: 1
 extended:
  ##a[href^="https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?"]
  ##.uEierd
  ###tadsb[aria-label]
  ###tads[aria-label]
  ##div[data-q][data-al]
  ###main a[href][data-sb^="/url?"]:remove-attr(data-sb)
  ##+js(set-attr, c-wiz[data-p] [data-query] a[target="_blank"][ro…
  ##+js(set-constant, rwt, noopFunc)

[stephenhawk8054]

Are you logging in to the site?

[untitlese5566]

No, I was not logged in to Google.

[stephenhawk8054]

I can't reproduce:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a1211f24-9e31-4444-9a44-2b49b372d460

[gorhill]

So apparently it's a new experiment by Google: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-people-also-consider-carousel-39726.html

[untitlese5566]

I found another search that shows these ads, at least for me: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22OTTO%20Quotes%22
This time I even saved the HTML of the ad at https://gist.github.com/untitlese5566/08f22b098d7044381a28862f5b9413d5. A possible filter could thus simply be: ###HbKV2c.