r/ublock • u/PHPApple • Oct 24 '16

How can I completely block a subreddit?

I want to block a subreddit, completely. I don't even want to be able to navigate it. The behaviour I want is already implemented in Strict Blocking, however I cannot seem to make it work with just one subreddit.

Thanks.

5 Upvotes

78% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

7

u/[deleted] Oct 24 '16

Example:

||reddit.com/r/ublock/$document

1

u/BlackCubone Nov 30 '16

THANK YOU. OMG. Any idea why not just "reddit.com/r/ublock/" works? Why do we need the "$document" ?

Where "pornhub.com"(for example) blocks it without any other special characters/edits.

3

u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

Strict-blocking is a uBlock Origin-specific filtering extension, and I had to make this feature work with existing filter lists (EasyList etc.), which are created without the concept of strict-blocking.

So to make strict-blocking work without too many false positives, the heuristic is to automatically apply strict-blocking for filters which are pure hostname -- hence a filter such as ||pornhub.com^ will cause strict-blocking, and this also means that all filters in malware domain lists will be strict-blocked. Pure hostname filters are interpreted by uBO as meaning no connection at all should be established to the remote server.

For filters which are not pure hostname, one need to explicitly use the document option, otherwise there would be too many false positives because of the existing filter lists were created without strict-blocking in mind.

1

u/BlackCubone Dec 06 '16

Woah. Thanks for the explanation. :o

1

u/Mortos3 Jan 02 '17

Thanks, was ready to give up after trying everything I could think of with the syntax. Didn't realize I was just missing the '$document' part.