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Starting today I have got this sponsored link on reddit (see enclosed pic). Actually clicking on "block element" does nothing at all....any idea how to get rid of this?

EDIT: it was just a matter of filters update. Fixed it.

 

UBlock 1.6.4 Released

Changes:
Popup filters can also be used to filter popunders. This was the case in the original implementation of popunder filtering, however this was removed eventually as this was causing too many false positives for popunders, causing legitimate tabs to be closed (#1010). The new solution is to still filter popunders according to existing popup filters, but to disregard popup filters which are too broad. Cases for which a popunder cannot be taken care by an existing popup filter, an explicit popunder filter should be used.
and much more..
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

 

Edit2: now it's there again....

 

Did you disable cosmetic filtering for the site?

 

No, I did not. Actually it's very strange because sometimes it shows up and some other times it does not...and I have not changed any setting in uBlock.

 

Let them update automatically. But if there is some update available when you open up the filter tab and see that the update button is Orange as in the screenshot below, then just click on it to download the updates.

Also in the screenshot, if you place the cursor (that I tried to paint out in red) on the "clear cache" (?), not sure what it says in english exactly, then a tooltip will show when that particular list was updated, in my case it says that the uBlock filters was updated 2 minutes ago.



My update button was orange because both of the "malware domains" lists that I use had updates available for them, but during the time it took to write this post - they got updated automatically in the background, and the update button is no longer orange when I checked right now. So the automatic update function works great in any case.

 

hi
may i know if there is an ip block if i update several time from dash board area?
because i tried to update firefox and chrome some day ago and my list are always no updated
thanks

 

refering to this issue
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1185

it should be solved now because the latest stable final from opera moved to v36 and the issue is still present:

uBlock blocks full page downloads

http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/03/best-browser-windows-10/
--> Opera 36.0.2130.32 stable (final)

(ublock installed here 1.6.5 rc1)

 

I've blocked 1st-party and 3rd-party scripts everywhere on uBlock Origin.

http://i.imgur.com/ia6dbfr.png http://i.imgur.com/ia6dbfr.png

What happens when I allow 3rd-party scripts on a website? Does this override the filter lists?
For example, uBlock Origin blocks Google Analytics by default. After allowing 3rd-party scripts on one site, my browser connected to google-analytics.com and several other tracking domains appeared also according to uBlock.

Please explain, I don't understand this at all. I want that blocked domains are strictly blacklisted and only allowed if whitelisted by the user.

 

Yes, allowing 3rd-party scripts overrides filterlists. Please read the relevant documentation.

You should really differentiate between allow and noop rules.

 

You should NOOP 3rd-party scripts (grey colored), which will block every 3rd party script found in your filterlists, and allow all the rest, it will also respect your (exception-) rules.

If specifically ALLOW'd (green color), it will allow EVERY 3rd party script found, and will not care about filterlists & your filters & rules.

 

^ Thank you both for replying, I understand now. I've read through the documentation, but it took a while to get a hang of this.

I have a couple questions more:

1. Why uMatrix can't be merged to uBlock Origin?
   
2. Does blocking 1st- and 3rd-party scripts equal to blocking Javascript? Do I have to block inline scripts also?
   
3. How can I show "empty canvas" in the place of blocked elements? Should "Hide placeholders of blocked elements" setting do the trick?
4. Does uMatrix override uBlock Origin rules and the other way round?

 

I think that uMatrix is a far more powerful solution for blocking. In UBO I can't set rules by the domain, for example I have to configure reddit.com and np.reddit.com individually. I will stick with uMatrix for now.

 

There are others far more qualified than I to advise on these extensions, but one can use them alone or together, depending on the level of contol you want.
My two cents worth FWIW - two possible options:
1) If together, use uBlockO for static filtering only, and use uMatrix for dynamic filtering. Don't duplicate the hosts / malware domains in uBlockO, rather tick these only in uMatrix.
2) uBlockO only, in medium mode. Very effective, but simple..
If you lose uMatrix only, you lose the power of uBlockO static filtering against ads and trackers.
1) is most powerful and gives you all the control you could ever need, and I suspect this is what you are after, and 2) will give you '95% protection for 5% of the effort', well you know what I mean.
I have used both approaches, but leaning towards the latter.
Now for the experts to answer your specific questions above.

 

I don't understand why you say that. Just like with uMatrix, dynamic filtering rules propagate to subdomains in uBO.

 

Does uBlock either block (or maybe even destroy) Super Cookies similar to the BetterPrivacy add-on?

 

ofc - in most cases it blocks the hosts with hosts file (ATS list)

 

Don't mean to sound too ignorant, but where do I find the ATS List?

 

here's the best way to find out:
disable betterprivacy, do some browsing with ub0 on, enable betterprivacy, check to see if there's any super cookie.
but maybe it manages super cookies the same way it does normal cookies, allow in, block out. that i don't know.

 

I don't know what that ATS list is. Anyways, if a network filter is triggered

It's obvious that Super Cookies are also prevented this way. If a tracker/adserver is completely blocked by the included hosts files and/or ABP filterlists and/or Dynamic Filtering, related cookies, web bugs, fingerprinting etc. are also prevented. It's as easy as that. This doesn't mean, though, that non-blocked sites can't use such techniques, too. Hence, forbidding 3rd-party cookies, deleting 1st-party cookies and clearing the cache when the browser closes is still a good idea.

 

UBlock 1.6.6 Released
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

 

Just wondering why I am getting an ad at the top of the page at http://www.spiegel.de/ despite running ublock. Is this some type of special ad that requires more than the default settings?

 

I'm not getting that ad and I have never been there before so I shouldn't have any custom filters blocking it.

 

Interestingly the page opens as usual and does not show the web for a few seconds and only then the ad is being served

 

Strange, even if I disbable uBlock for the site and allow all 3rd-party cookies, I still don't get the ad maybe it's a country-specific thing? Just guessing of course.