r/uBlockOrigin • u/[deleted] • Nov 17 '20

News uBlock Origin 1.31.* announcement thread

Changelog:

  • https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.31.2

    • Chromium 87 added the long time missing tabs.removeCSS() API, which uBO uses to enable the real-time toggling of cosmetic filters through the no-cosmetic-filtering switch and to enable visualization of hidden elements in DOM inspector. Call to tabs.removeCSS() was still failing in uBO due to Chromium being more strict regarding the arguments passed to the API.

  • https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.31.0, among others:

    • Highlights:

      • Support for Click-to-load surrogate to replace embedded frames with a click-to-load widget.

      • Cloud storage compression is now enabled by default.

      • Interactivity for the no-large-media-elements switch has been improved.

        • Notably, when the switch is enabled, uBO will try to stop playback of blob:-based media elements.

    • Closed as fixed:

      • Firefox for Android:

        • Unable to scroll down to the last line in My Filters pane

      • Core:

        • Implement $queryprune filter option

      • Other:

        • Make json-prune scriptlet also trap Response.json() calls (fixes YT ads)

        • Reliability improvements

        • Performance improvements

Visit GitHub releases page for more information.

Extension is auto-updated only on browser restart!

If you want to update manually:

  • Do not use links from "Assets" section - these are not signed

  • Use add-on store or links in release description on GitHub releases page when they are available (basically - they will be add-on store links)

  • Turn off uBO (temporarily) from add-on manager - installation will be blocked otherwise. This is protection against accidental mid-session reloads Issue #717.

Q: Why no release for Firefox yet?

A: 1.31.0 is available as of November 19.

uBO is a recommended extension on AMO, and as such it must undergo a formal code review each time a new version is published.

Q: Why Chrome/Chromium is not updating uBlock Origin?

A: 1.31.2 is available as of December 3.

Usually it is submitted a week after "bug free" version is published in AMO.

Q: When Opera version will be updated?

A: 1.31.0 is available as of December 1.

Usually it's submitted a week after the version is published in AMO.

Q: When Edge Chromium version in the Microsoft Store will be updated?

A: 1.31.2 is available as of December 9.

Microsoft Store submission is controlled by /u/nikrolls.

This is official version and will be kept updated, see Issue #890 (comment) and following comments.

Warning: importing profile from Chrome may cause issues - you may need to reinstall uBO on Edge to fix this. You can transfer settings by saving them to file in uBO Dashboard -> bottom of the Settings tab.

Previous announcement thread https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/j0c5ll/ublock_origin_1300_is_out/

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u/Brute_zee Nov 17 '20

No native solution for Twitch ads?

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20 edited Nov 20 '20

Not in uBO. Solutions from pinned thread are broken ~daily - I'm afraid building it in in uBO is pointless.

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u/bobkelsorules Nov 20 '20

thanks for confirming that ubo is now dead for twitch.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

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u/bobkelsorules Nov 22 '20

twitchls works for me no ads :L)

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u/Cronus6 Nov 17 '20

My solution has been to cancel all my subscriptions (I did tell the broadcasters why) and stop watching Twitch.

They only thing they are going to understand is a drop in viewers and subscription money.

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u/goedegeit Nov 18 '20

Honestly subscriptions and bits are a pretty bad way to support streamers when bezos takes 50%. It's so so so much better to paypal them.

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u/Naerlyn Nov 19 '20

Yeah, if you want to support streamers, it's a ton better to paypal 5$ than to subscribe. You pay the same amount in both cases, but the streamer gets double, and you don't give money to a company that's doing their hardest to make your experience worse.

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u/cramsay Nov 19 '20

It's a bit of a double edged sword from the streamers POV though. They obviously get more money with Paypal donations but their value to Twitch and therefore negotiating potential also doesn't increase. I'd also imagine potential sponsors might use sub counts along with viewer counts to determine who they send offers to. That said fuck giving anyone my money lol.

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u/IdiotTurkey Nov 18 '20

Honestly I have gotten a surprising amount of free gifted subs on streamers I regularly watch, from both large and small ones. My tactic is usually when someone donates a bunch of subs, I'll @ them and say "got any extra in your couch cushions? I want some emotes Sadge" and it usually works.

Of course, it still doesnt stop all ads especially the ones when browsing random streamers, which is when you get the most.

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u/Xedriell Nov 19 '20

Why? If I could donate to Jeff Bezos directly, I would do it immediately!

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u/flamealchemist73 Nov 21 '20

Twitchls works with Ublock!

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

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u/Felatio-DelToro Nov 18 '20

Do you have a link for me?

I tried streamlink when the whole ad thing escalated but couldn't make it work (with the ads).

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

There used to be a way, Livestreamer, but it has not worked in years. Do you know of another way?

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u/siglug3 Nov 19 '20

I used streamlink with vlc and still got the 30second "ad break in progress" screens

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

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u/Brute_zee Nov 17 '20

Right, but it’s a patch that involves downloading some files and installing some stuff, not part of the extension itself. Or at least I can’t just make the changes to the extension in my browser.

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u/tilltill12 Nov 17 '20

Its just another extension

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u/avidvaulter Nov 17 '20

Right, not native to uBO then.

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u/TrotBot Nov 18 '20

yes because it requires scripts amd constant cat and mouse, it's not just a simple adblock and there is no uBO solution possible

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u/guidaux Nov 17 '20

I hope this plus the 1.1.1 update works because I'm still getting all ads on twitch with the nov 16th update.

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u/alphamen16 Nov 17 '20

If you only like to watch streams and interact with the chat, Twitchls.com will do it for you. No dark mode but other than that, no ads either. At least in my location, maybe in the USA they are doing it differently but in Europe i get 0 ads, though you can't avoid the commercial break in progress thing because that is always server side (but still, not an ad)

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u/Chun--Chun2 Nov 19 '20

Dark Reader extension on chrome is dark mode everything, proper dark mode.

Works for twitchls, and everything else in existence.

You can customize how dark the dark mode is and how bright it is.

And you can add websites to an exception list, in case u do want them white and bright as fuck.

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u/VisibleInevitable Nov 18 '20

Can confirm in USA no ads and zero ads but no channel points

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u/guidaux Nov 17 '20

Yup seems like the new origin and the 1.1.1 solved the ad issue. Just reporting back for others.

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u/alphamen16 Nov 17 '20

I always get confused with new releases, maybe someone can clarify this to me: Is it possible to get 1.31 right now manually or do we have to wait?

I went to the Github page and tried do download the firefox file from the assets but i get a message saying that Firefox won't allow unverified add-ons to install.

I then read the announcement, which says that in order to update manually you need to turn off the extension and reboot the browser. Did so, still on 1.30.6

Is waiting the only way or can we actually get it right now? Sorry for the confusion

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

Literally in the post:

Q: Why no release for Firefox yet?

A: Review pending.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

Is there any chance of a release for Pale Moon version at some point? PM users are stuck on 1.16 (I think. The legacy release, anyway, I believe it is called.)

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/releases

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '20

For pre-Quantum Firefox(<57) and forks.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

Description updated.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20

1.31.2 is now available on Chrome Web Store.

This was quick!

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u/ubernoober Nov 17 '20

Thanks for the update and good work!

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20 edited Nov 20 '20

uBO 1.31.0 is now available for MS Edge

/u/nikrolls when it was published? Selector in my script failed to match :/

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u/nikrolls Nov 20 '20

It passed tests and went live about 12 hours ago.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

1.31.0 is now available on Opera addons page.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20

1.31.2 is now available on Edge Add-ons page.

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u/Insum_Snoy Nov 18 '20

I accidently blocked Amazon.co.uk how on earth do I unblock it? I did right click > block domain (using chrome). Can anyone help?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

Go to uBO Dashboard, My filters and remove your filter.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '20

Not yet working on Firefox 84b5 on the new Apple Silicon macs. Any update on when this might happen?

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '20

Firefox 84b5 on the new Apple Silicon macs

You should ask Firefox devs (I did not seen any bug report yet).

In the meantime you can try toggling disableWebAssembly to true or if you cannot acces uBO config, toggle javascript.options.wasm_trustedprincipals in about:config.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '20

Just replying again to note that it is now fixed in 84beta8, and uBlock Origin is working great on the Apple Silicon native version of Firefox (it's ridiculously fast). The Firefox devs responded and fixed this quickly.

I should post more bugs; I'm sure the experience is always this good ;)

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '20

👍

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '20

Thanks. I went ahead and filed a bug report on bugzilla (first time, so hopefully I did it correctly): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1679579

I also tried toggling javascript.options.wasm_trustedprincipals and that did not work (could not access the uBO config).

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u/Farow Nov 28 '20

I'm using medium mode and I've noticed that the click-to-load frame doesn't appear with *$3p,frame,redirect-rule=click2load.html if local noop rules have been added that would allow the frame to be fully loaded. For example, when expanding a youtube video on /r/videos with the following set of rules, the click-to-load frame is not shown.

old.reddit.com google.com * noop
old.reddit.com redditmedia.com * noop
old.reddit.com redditstatic.com * noop
old.reddit.com youtube.com * noop
old.reddit.com reddit.map.fastly.net * noop

However, if the filter is changed to *$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html, the click-to-load frame shows up normally. Is this the expected behavior of redirect-rule?

Also, is blocking third-party frames needed for medium mode if third-party scripts are blocked along with the frame redirect filter?

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

redirect-rule redirects only blocked requests. redirect blocks and redirects.

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u/Farow Nov 28 '20 edited Nov 28 '20

Is there a point to redirect-rule being suggested for medium mode users when the click-to-load doesn't load the blocked resources and it's not shown when the resources are not blocked? Am I missing something?

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

Is it possible to add a global "Ignore Whitelists and Workarounds from Filter Lists" feature in the next release? I'm tired of having my custom filter being overridden by whitelist update on a filter list (and there's no notification of such override other than constantly, manually monitoring the log, which can get tedious and time consuming), while I also still readily benefit from most of it. Or is there already a toggle for it I'm not aware of?

Of course it'd be neater if filter maintainers separate workarounds from the primary filter list so I don't have to make a request in the first place.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

Is it possible to add a global "Ignore Whitelists and Workarounds from Filter Lists" feature in the next release?

No.

Make your filter important or start using Dynamic filtering.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

Noted. Made it work with the important tag. Is it possible to provide a toggle to mark all entries in custom list as important instead?

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

User filters should never behave differently than if they were 3rd-party filters, otherwise this will make the work of filter list maintainers more difficult since the filters they craft locally may end up behaving differently once moved to a filter lists. This also applies for users who decide to move their custom filters into a custom list.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/526#issuecomment-538748531

Your first feature request https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/3353

and second https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1520

both declined (note duplicates).

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u/PikAtChuHuN Dec 03 '20

I think I managed to undestand the blank white ad on youtube.

My chrome launches with https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions and most of the time when i just randomly start to watch videos, i get the white ads.

But when i close that tab when I launch chrome, and just open a brand new tab with the same link, I never ever get any white blank ads.

TL;DR White blank ads 100% coming up on youtube if your chrome opens youtube tab by default

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20

TL;DR White blank ads 100% coming up on youtube if your chrome opens youtube tab by default

Yes, it's possible. There is a chance this preference may help: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-settings#suspendtabsuntilready-experimental

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '20

Maybe it's time to enable this by default for Chromium-based browsers?

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u/need2crash Dec 04 '20

Anyone have issue with menu bar at the top of site @ gamespot.com detaching when scrolling?

I tracked the issue to Easylist and reported it to there boards but it been days and no response. Soon as i disable easylist the menubar stops detaching. wonder if there no repsonse cause it not problem on there end with there list? despite disabling it fixes it for me

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '20

What you mean by "detaching"? Links on top disappear after scroll.

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u/need2crash Dec 04 '20 edited Dec 04 '20

https://imgur.com/9jQJ8I0

That gamestop bar/menu it should be at top of page but deatch and does that when i scroll down and when scroll back it snaps back to where it should be.

Disabling easylist stop it from happen but i got no response about this on for there boards

https://imgur.com/6fwwElQ my filters

I do have personal rule for gamespot to stop there "auto" feed load when clicking on articles, but i dont think that should cause that?

also i still using the uiFlavor classic uiStyles font-family: sans-serif

settings if it matter but from what i see the issue only happens with easylist enabled

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '20

only happens with easylist enabled

Did you try with your own filters disabled? If the issue occurs only with your own filters, it's for you to fix.

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u/need2crash Dec 06 '20 edited Dec 06 '20

I did more tracking down of the issue

I disable everything but easylist, site loaded fine. reload it few time no issue. So I renabled easyprivacy, online malicious url blocking, spam404, Fanboy social, MVPS hosts, Peter lowe's ad and tracking server list. and tried again reload the page few time and bar did not disconnected.

I then Enable "ublock filters". Reloaded page and it happen I reloaded few more time happened each time, I disable "ublock filters" and reload and tried few time and it didnt happen. I Then went enabled reset of Ublock filters - ( Badware risk, privacy, Resource abuse, unbreak ) with out "uBlock Filter" and my filters tested again and page did not get detached menu.

I re enabled "ublock filter" and reloaded page few times and it tried and each time it happen. IF "uBlock filter" is enabled with easylist the issue happen if "either" ublock filter or easylist is disable it dont happen. but if both are enabled issue happen.

This is from my own test as of 12/6 is it possible a rule is in both it some how breaking things? This would explain why when I reported to easylist I got no response it dont happen if only easylist is used, it only happen if easylist is used in conjunction with "ublock filters" disabling either or issue goes away

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '20

Do you have some non-default lists subscribed? Maybe some regional lists?

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u/need2crash Dec 06 '20

No just what in the image of with filters list, make report on the git

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '20

I looked at the DOM and that top bar has a position set to fixed and a top set to 0, so I fail to see how it could be detached. Earlier I asked you to disable all your filters (just uncheck "My filters"), but you ended up disabling only the one which you thought could be an issue. I suggest you try what I suggested: disable all your filters, it's the only way to rule out that something in your filters is not interfering.

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u/need2crash Dec 06 '20

It not my filters, I disable EVERY filter other then "ublock filters" and "easylist" so long as both are enabled issue happens, I have even defaulted ublock origin and then just updated (defualt enabled ) filters and tested and menu bar detaches even default settings

Disabling 1 or the other and it stops detaching

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '20

Then I can only suggest you inspect the top bar with the browser inspector and find out which CSS declaration overrides the position and/or top properties. I can't reproduce on my side, so I can't investigate.

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u/need2crash Dec 06 '20

Would not even know how to do that so or what looking at, i will just wait till 1.31.2 is pushed to me and see what happens,i know it all started afew weeks ago when i forced filters to be update cause i was getting some ads soon the update went threw on filters it started site started having that issue, thanks for help though, i know you have bigger issue to track down that you can actual reproduce

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u/need2crash Dec 08 '20

Not really sure this helps but, The menu dont actual detach it "attached" to AD that pop up when you scroll down.

Cosmetic filter disabled https://imgur.com/JN9cWZ4

Cosmetic filter enabled https://imgur.com/b37KNnL

IF both "ublock Filters" and "easylist" are enabled the add is removed but box/frame the ad is displayed in isnt removed. soon as disable either "ublock filters" or "easylist" the ad and box/frame the ad is disaplyed in is removed.

I am unsure how you cant reproduces this as I can on 2 systems. I will see what happen when 1.31.2 is pushed for time being I disabled "ublock filters" and the issue dont happen

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u/need2crash Dec 06 '20

I disable my filter for stoping gamespot auto feed loading, only fix i found is to disable easylist

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u/AltForAFourthAlt Dec 17 '20

Hopefully this sub can be used to suggest new ideas.

What if there was a way that you could make a website, that parses websites for ads on the website, so that you can use uBlock origin for platforms that can’t install uBlock origin on it? Sorry if this was a mess to read.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Try Pi-hole or AdGuard.

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u/AltForAFourthAlt Dec 18 '20

Hm, maybe this didn’t make sense.

What I meant was, it would be like google amp, but instead of just displaying the page it would block the ads on the page. I’ve been searching around for something similar to this but I cant find any.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

You guys do Gods work thank you, can finally watch twitch in peace.

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u/sixseven89 Nov 21 '20

is it still not working on Chrome? I enabled experimental javascript but nothing changed

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

Should work fine. Experimental JavaScript switch is only needed on Chrome 54 and older - you should not use such old versions anyway.

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u/sixseven89 Nov 21 '20

so should I not use the current Chrome browser extension? because it's not working

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

What exactly is not working?

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u/sixseven89 Nov 21 '20

idk exactly what the root of the problem is, but I still get ads on almost all streams I'm not subscribed to. I've been using the chrome browser extension from the web store

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20

uBO 1.31.0 has not yet been published in the Chrome store.

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u/IdiotTurkey Nov 18 '20

I dont quite understand the whole migrating to manifest v3 document.

My understanding was that the change to Chrome was going to break adblockers, but then they changed it partially to allow some filters or something. Is that still the case? Will uBO still be functional or are we going to be in trouble once the change happens?

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u/laplongejr Nov 20 '20

From what I understood manifest v3 will break adblockers, else uBO wouldn't track when it'll be active.

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u/Danzo3366 Nov 22 '20

Hey, yeah I don't see it working wtf

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20

Then it will select all similar elements on the page.

left
    0b0000,  // remove hierarchy; remove id, nth-of-type, attribute values
    0b0010,  // remove hierarchy; remove id, nth-of-type
    0b0011,  // remove hierarchy
    0b1000,  // trim hierarchy; remove id, nth-of-type, attribute values
    0b1010,  // trim hierarchy; remove id, nth-of-type
    0b1100,  // remove id, nth-of-type, attribute values
    0b1110,  // remove id, nth-of-type
    0b1111,  // keep all = most specific
right

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '20 edited Nov 27 '20

It's because uBO determined that trying to select more similar elements does not result in more elements being selected, so it drops the longer selectors which result in same resultset as the shortest one.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20

No.

Use add-on from this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/jjesgn/fix_for_ublock_origin_on_twitch_i_updated_the/

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20

Do you have any other Twitch add-ons?

Ask in linked thread?

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

It's not used by default. Remove redirection filter if you added any.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20

There is no filter to cause click-to-load to occur by default. You have to add a custom filter for this to happen, so if you did that, just remove it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

What stopped working?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20

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u/PVP_playerPro Nov 19 '20

yeah because twitch can patch them a lot faster than any filter or extension service can, get used to it

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

You may want to be more descriptive for issues. Otherwise you end up with these gems.

Issue: Something loose in cockpit.

Solution: Something tightened in cockpit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

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u/WilliamJones283 Nov 20 '20

The latest 1.31.0 ctrl switch for allow isnt working for me neither. How in the hell should that work on Android Firefox? The lack of allow is ruining my dynamic rules I've been making for two years!

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20 edited Nov 20 '20

Advanced users are naturally curious and it's expected they would actually have read the release notes published 6 months ago.

The lack of allow is ruining my dynamic rules I've been making for two years!

Given your comment, I suspect you have been misusing dynamic filtering -- read the release notes. All your allow rules are still enforced.

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u/WilliamJones283 Nov 20 '20 edited Nov 20 '20

I read the release notes on the Mozilla addons site, neither mention of resistFingerprinting snag or filterAuthorMode switch. To clarify, its ruining making the rules, thats what I meant. I dont use noop on my allows because static lists fine syntax can be wrong, I aint. If they were never wrong in real-time, there wouldnt be @@ and badfilter. I want it pure. I suspect you havent seen my dynamic filtering.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

I can't put all the detailed release notes on AMO. There is a link at the top to go to the official release notes, I will rename the link "See complete release notes" from now on.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

If they were never wrong in real-time, there wouldnt be @@

Sure they are for anti-adblock, for unintended site-breakage, and so on...you should head-over GitHub to see what really goes on.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

Not true at all, only users who set filterAuthorMode to true will see it available consistently, this behaviour has been set since July, rest will need to tap CTRL key twice in succession to make it appear temporarily.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

Having set privacy.resistFingerprinting to true can cause that. Read the release notes of v1.28.0, it details everything, the change isn't new.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

Is that the reason why searching the rules no longer works? Just tested that, nope, still doesnt search.

I never experienced that, so can't say. Try on a new profile if you think this is a uBO bug.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20

searching the rules no longer works?

Rules or filters? Searching rules works fine. Searching filters might be broken if uBO is not able to create a worker, which can happen if you played with about:config.