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This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app -
0.23+14.10.20140630.1-0ubuntu1

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webbrowser-app (0.23+14.10.20140630.1-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * Add a user script that prevents so-called "smart banners" generated
    by the smartbanner jQuery plugin to show ads for native android/iOS
    apps. (LP: #1329799)
  * Add support for custom search engines defined by the OpenSearch
    description document format
    (http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1). (LP:
    #1277637)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <ps-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>   Mon, 30 Jun 2014 20:47:27 +0000

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  CNN.com advertises Google Play app to Ubuntu users

Status in “webbrowser-app” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  1. Go to <http://cnn.com/>.
  2. Click the app "View" button.

  What you see:
  1. An iOS-imitating app banner advertising an app on Google Play.
  2. An error message.

  What you should see: No such banner.

  Either CNN needs to be evangelized to show the banner only on Android,
  or the browser app's UA string needs to be changed.

  (One way of reducing this problem would be a UA style sheet hiding all
  {display:block} elements pointing to market:// URLs. That wouldn't
  hide any that went through URL redirectors, though. I can't tell
  whether the CNN one goes through a redirector.)

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