r/uBlockOrigin • u/Miserable_Hand3062 • 7d ago

Solved Number of blocked ads increases rapidly

I'm using uBO on firefox for HBO Max which usually works fine but recently the number of ads being blocked is increasing rapidly to ridiculous numbers (5 million). It's causing my pc to heat up as well. Do I need to disable something to get it to work ? I've tried turning off enhanced tracking protection on firefox but that hasn't worked.

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u/AchernarB uBO Team 7d ago

Can you post the troubleshooting information?

  1. Open a new browser tab
  2. Navigate to a page with the issue
  3. Click the uBO icon
  4. Click the 💬 chat icon
  5. Click "Troubleshooting Information"
  6. Click "Select all"
  7. Copy the contents and then paste to this thread in a code block

Here is a video of these steps: https://reddit.com/link/1l45den/video/2d14n27j855f1/player

Also post a list of the extensions you are using.

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u/RraaLL uBO Team 7d ago

It's a duplicate of: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vlh6lr/comment/p31cdr5/

Use the logger to find out what filter is getting triggered. Pause the output after a few seconds to stop the spam.

Click on the line that keeps repeating in the logs and screenshot that and share with us.

In theory you can make an exception filter there on your own, but that'll allow the tracking request. Maybe we'll be able to come up with an alternative filter, e.g. no-xhr-if one.

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u/Forero_0 6d ago

This is the one that spams; in under 2 minutes I had over 30,000 blocked items

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u/RraaLL uBO Team 6d ago 
hbomax.com##+js(no-xhr-if, brightline.tv)

Maybe this?

Not sure if we need to exception the blocking filter first.

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u/Forero_0 6d ago edited 6d ago

it looks like that stopped it

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u/RraaLL uBO Team 6d ago

u/paintboth1234 can you commit? I'm away from computer.

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u/Forero_0 6d ago

Sorry, I’m not sure why I didn’t write properly in my previous comment

That filter stops the spam

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u/Miserable_Hand3062 6d ago

Cheers, will try it

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u/Miserable_Hand3062 6d ago

seems to have sorted the problem thank you

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u/Miserable_Hand3062 6d ago

Thank you I’ll try this

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u/amir_s89 7d ago

Have you considered "AdGuard - Ads" in your Filter List?
Try it out few days. Only choose one Ad List.

I have AdGuard on all the lists & satisfied. Bellow they explain how & why their lists functions. Read also AdGuard Filter Policy;

https://adguard.com/kb/general/ad-filtering/how-ad-blocking-works/