µBlock, a lean and fast blocker

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by gorhill, Jun 23, 2014.

  1. wat0114

    wat0114 Registered Member

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    You must have some global or site-speciific allow or noop rules in place under My rules that are overriding the global all setting
     
  2. Krusty

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    I'm having trouble with uBO in Firefox on this machine. Until the last few days I had the yellow feedback ad blocked on this site:

    https://community.norton.com/en/forums

    ad.PNG

    I can right click it and from the context menu select "Block Element" which gives me a filter like this:

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    ! 28/07/2019 https://community.norton.com
    ||community.norton.com/en/system/files/u626753/NCF-survey_0.png$image
    That works fine while Firefox is open but next time I open FF and visit the Norton forums the ad is back. As this has only just started happening I think it might be something to do with an update to uBO.

    Any ideas?
     
  3. JimboW

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    The strange thing is though that filter has been working fine for months.
    That seems to have done the trick. Thanks Jimbo! :thumb:
     
  5. Brummelchen

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    Code:
    ||community.norton.com/en/system/files/*/NCF-survey*.png$image,important
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    added ",important" for no exception rule!
     
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  6. Krusty

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    Sadly I have a much worse issue with uBO and Firefox. Lately when I open Firefox it takes ages, if at all, for my home page to load. I entered about:performance into the address bar while waiting and found that while uBO was only using 10 MB of memory, as soon as I disabled it (after trying other extensions) Firefox home page loaded immediately. To check I closed FF and when I opened Firefox the home page loaded as quick as I remember.

    Stupid forum software:
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    about:performance
    Before this I uninstalled and disabled some security programs which had no affect.

    Just tested again. Firefox opens, the page is white and it appears to try to load but nothing happens. The very second I disable uBO the home page loads immediately.
     
  7. stapp

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    What do you have on your Firefox home page?
     
  8. Krusty

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    I don't think that it matters in this case, but bing.com. No pages load at all now while uBO is enabled. I just installed AdBlock Plus and while it is still slow, it does allow Firefox to load.
     
  9. Krusty

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    Disabled ABP and made fresh install of uBO and it looks like I'm back in business... for now anyway.
     
  10. imdb

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    take a look at this and this.
     
  11. T10014

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    I've read a bit about uMatrix, and it was recommended that it be use together with uBlock Origin. From what I can tell, uMatrix is used to either allow or block. This could be an issue when allowing a domain when attempting to fix broken websites, whereas uBlock Origin would give me the option to use a noop. Forgive me if this is incorrect; I'm new to these tools and trying to understand how they work.

    It seems that 'nightmare mode' blocks everything apart from the main document. Just wondering if there are any dangers that might be lurking with this. Here's my settings anyway:

    https://i.postimg.cc/mc3SLcjW/Screenshot.jpg
     
  12. imdb

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    not necessarily. you can use um without ubo, and vice versa.

    ubo is best to use in medium mode with ad filter list subscriptions and such. then, you can use um along with it in default deny mode with host list subscriptions. um gives you much more granular control over all the contents of a page, i.e. you can choose the type of data to allow or block from a certain domain; e.g. you can block script, xhr, frame on example.com but at the same time allow images and css from that same domain. not something you can do with ubo. think of um as a content firewall. but as you said, um might prevent ubo from fixing broken redirects with the help of noop, but that's something can be fixed with um ruleset recipes or a few manual tweaks at domain or global scope.

    i recommend you to watch these 2 vids from "the hated one" to grasp the essence of ubo & um. (p.s.: bear in mind that these vids are almost a year and a half old, things have changed and improved a lot since then both for ubo & um.)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lisQQmWQkY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVozpo3zUBk
     
  13. imdb

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    please post an image of "filter lists" with active filters in use, "my filters" and "my rules" tabs from ubo. it seems that there's an existing 3rd party filter or a personal filter or a custom rule to allow some requests from itgroove.net. open the logger, refresh the page you're visiting and check to see what filter is allowing those requests from that domain. the related requests will be in yellow too. click on it and there you have the info you need.
     
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  14. Brummelchen

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    ofc it is possible but not with a single click, it needs one or more rules or filters.
    and you should use umatrix where ublock is not active, otherwise you run circles when searching reason for failure.

    what is blocked - both have a logger where and what was blocked - there is no space for misunderstanding the logger.
     
  15. imdb

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    i thought you (or anyone)'d understand i meant:

    "you can block script, xhr, frame from "xyz.com" on "example.com" but at the same time allow images, css or media from "xyz.com" on "example.com". not something you can do with ubo."
     
  16. Krusty

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    Ok, so it looks like others have had that problem and there could be many causes.
     
  17. imdb

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    yeah, it seems so. and ubo itself has nothing to do with those issues. it's either a corrupted ff profile or a modified setting under the hood and such.
     
  18. summerheat

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    Yes, you can with Dynamic URL Filtering via the logger. But granted, it's not that easy and straightfoward as it is with uMatrix.
     
  19. imdb

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    i know that you can. but that's what i mean (like you said): "...But granted, it's not that easy and straightfoward as it is with uMatrix"

    ubo's not meant for that. um is the right tool for that (as confirmed and endorsed by @gorhill himself). not to mention the fact that there are tens of different domains like xyz.com (or tens of cdn's) on almost every page to deal with.
     
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  20. Krusty

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    You can blame whatever you like but as soon as I disable uBO Firefox runs much better. It was working OK yesterday but it is back to not loading today. Disabled uBO, page loaded immediately, enabled ABP, no problem.

    You should note that this was a clean install of Windows and a recent installation of Firefox. How could the profile become corrupt? What modified setting suddenly changed without me doing anything? Why did this start with a recent update from uBO? Maybe uBO corrupted my profile and changed some setting.
     
  21. imdb

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    you should've checked for errors via browser console. if the issue reoccurs, please do so and open an issue on ubo github page with that console feedback. ubo profile might get corrupted due to an improper shutdown, a failed update and such. you never know without an investigation. what matters is if the issue can be reproduced or not. btw, do you use ff in pbm?
     
  22. Krusty

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    I don't know how to do that.
    Thanks but I am a member of enough forums for now.

    If anyone wants to walk me through the steps to gather logs here or by PM I'll see what I can do.
     
  23. imdb

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    "ctrl + ⇧ + j"

    i doubt @gorhill 'd do that.

    do you use ff in pbm? is your prefs file modified?
     
  24. Krusty

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    I purged all filters and that seems to have helped.
    Where exactly am I supposed to enter that?
    Private Browsing Mode? Seriously, it is pointless offering cryptic clues. I will need step by step instructions. We aren't charged by the letter here. Private Browsing Mode = no.
    No.
    I guess my logs would be useless then anyway.
     
  25. imdb

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    that's good. so it was a filter issue, maybe.

    just open a tab in ff and hit the key combination. that's it.

    not necessarily, if you open an issue on ubo github. also not necessarily because you might figure it out by reading the error code, etc.
     
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