[Ext] uBlock Origin

[gorhill]

A wide-spectrum blocker which also supports (and extends) the parsing/enforcing of Adblock Plus-filter syntax.



Link to AMO page:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ck-origin/

Beta version also available on AMO:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... sions/beta

What does "wide-spectrum blocker" means?
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode

Source code on GitHub (license is GPLv3):
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

[Virtual_ManPL]

Thank you very much for your hard work on this extension!

[marty60]

Just installed this because AdBlock Plus was crashing for me in the latest nightlies and the first thing I noticed is that it uses a lot less memory.

[WaltS48]

Installed it in 42.0b2 yesterday, used it for awhile and could not access the Menu button when I wanted to quit Firefox.

[gorhill]

Installed it in 42.0b2 yesterday, used it for awhile and could not access the Menu button when I wanted to quit Firefox.

Was this on OSX? An issue resembling this has been reported: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/737

[streetwolf]

Nice to see you Ray here at Mozillazine.

[Brummelchen]

Welcome, Raymond!

if some need german support please read here for the news
http://www.camp-firefox.de/forum/viewto ... 4&t=111851

and write here for problems
http://www.camp-firefox.de/forum/viewto ... 4&t=111753

Boersenfeger is also present here.

/me uses uBlock and uMatrix - with a deny/allow ruleset

at least i switched from ABP and NoScript. /me knows both from my first experiences with google chrome and i missed uBlock for firefox until last year.

happy u-ing for the people here

Cheers.

[boersenfeger]

Welcome, Raymond!
Great to have u here and a big thx for ur wonderful Addons uBlock origin and uMatrix..

CU
Bo

[Brummelchen]

i need a special filter and it has to look like this

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||bc0*.rp-online.de/polopoly_fs/*.*.*[a-z]!*

uBlock understand [a-z] as a regular expression?

the string (between . and !) i need to filter contains numbers and chars - regular content only has numbers.

[WaltS48]

Installed it in 42.0b2 yesterday, used it for awhile and could not access the Menu button when I wanted to quit Firefox.

Was this on OSX? An issue resembling this has been reported: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/737

On Mint 17.2 "Rafaela" | KDE 4.14.2

[NickJH]

i need a special filter and it has to look like this

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||bc0*.rp-online.de/polopoly_fs/*.*.*[a-z]!*

uBlock understand [a-z] as a regular expression?

the string (between . and !) i need to filter contains numbers and chars - regular content only has numbers.

If uBlock understands regex's, you'll do better to rework your expression anyway. I think the / has to be escaped and .* means anything. .*.* therefore also means anything. If you want the "." you'll need to escape it so "/*.*.*" becomes "\/*\..*\..*". Great stuff

[gorhill]

uBlock understand [a-z] as a regular expression?

It is compatible with Adblock Plus-filter syntax, which does allow the use of regular expression for network filters -- though the use of regexp is discouraged for performance reasons. The filter you created though is not compatible with ABP filter syntax.

However it's always better to point out the page where there is an issue along with what is the issue, sometimes the solution is elsewhere than where you might think. In the current case, I visited the site rp-online.de, and I am guessing the issue is these ugly ads which appears as a result of using a blocker. If you are willing to install the dev version of uBlock Origin (available on AMO), then these anti-adblock ads can be dealt with more simply with the following filter (it's a new kind of filter):

rp-online.de##script:contains(uabInject)

This will disable the specific inline script tag which is responsible for the self-defacement behavior of the site.

More about script tag filtering: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/ ... -filtering

[streetwolf]

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[Brummelchen]

well, i am more familiar with the normal regex using in other programs, at least i had same problems when used ABP
entry should be

||rp-online.de##script:contains(uabInject)

and i really appreciate such option when scrips are allowed by uMatrix, searching within scripts and block it on its content

great job you did, and thanks for investigating

darn, does not work any more while posting this edit

[gorhill]

||rp-online.de##script:contains(uabInject)

This won't work, domain names in cosmetic filters cannot be prepended with `||`.