Hi,
Could you include Steven Black’s hosts in the built-in 3rd-party filters tab? This is a good and convenient hosts file that saves us from subscribing to multiple different sources. Thank you!
Is there a way to add a reason to the blocks I make?
I block sites when I don’t like them, but if I access it later and don’t remember why I blocked, I would like to have an explanation of the cause of the blocking, so I can think better about closing the tab, or unblocking temporarily!
Go to the “My filters” tab in uBlock Origin options, and add a line beginning with ! and that will be a comment.
uBlock Origin (and similar extensions, like ABP and AdBlock) cannot block them because they don’t trigger network requests; however, I know that uBlock Origin is trying to figure out how to deal with the redirects that result, and it’s similar to the problem of blocking popups that replace the original tab.
Chrome 52.0.2743.82, uBO 1.7.6.
When opening the Developer Tools via Ctrl+Shift+I, the debugging console is sometimes automatically placed in uBO’s extension scope.
The dropdown menu has uBO’s extension selected instead of “top”, which should be selected.
While easy to correct, it’s annoying having to change scope, and it took me several minutes to work out why my debugging wasn’t working the first time it happened.
Report to Chromium devs. There is no code in uBO related to the dev console.
I know this. But this requires me to open the options to search and read
the comments everytime. I’d like to see the reason on the screen that
informs the block.
Your battery status is being used to track you online:
“Some companies may be analysing the possibility of monetising the access to battery levels,” he writes. “When battery is running low, people might be prone to some – otherwise different – decisions. In such circumstances, users will agree to pay more for a service.”
This can be turned off with dom.battery.enabled;false on Firefox.
Hello i need help with something. I checked all the website filters of all the country list UBlock Origin had…
So now, i always see no matter what i click a meesage saying: “UBlock Origin prevent the load of a Page” Ok but says the page is from Japan or any other country… and im in Argentina!..
It bothers me a lot to close the window and open another one… like 3 or 5 times happen-…
I wonder if someone could help me solve a problem? On one of the sites I regularly visit, they have a comments section (which works fine). However, many users insist on having signatures that I find very intrusive, so I was hoping to create a filter to hide them.
The only way I could find to do it, was by doing them for each individual post on a page, which didn’t seem like the way to do this. So how do I make a filter that currently works for a single element on a page, work for the site as a whole?
This is the per element filter the picker created:
forums.gta5-mods.com###content > .row > .col-sm-12.col-lg-12.topic > .posts > li:nth-of-type(2) > .post-footer.clearfix > .post-signature > p
Any help is very much appreciated. I am currently writing a mod for the site and being able to strip out all the fluff and just leave essential topic content would be very helpful.
It’s a very minor issue, but some pages show 1 item blocked and the logger doesn’t show any entries. I’m just trying to find out what’s being blocked on my site (it doesn’t have any ads)
I see https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js being blocked in the logger.
A couple of questions.
- Does uBlock stop Chrome from doing parallel resource downloading? I am asking because I have an internal site full of images and it looks like Chrome is only downloading them one at a time where it seems to download them in parallel if uBlock is disabled.
- When I click the big blue On/Off button, does uBlock stop checking URLs? It seems to take the same amount of time whether the button is blue or grey and, in regards to question 1, the items only download serially vs in parallel. If I disable uBlock in extensions, the speed is much faster than when the button is grey.
- When something is cached, such as an image, does the request still go through uBlock or does it go to the cache first?
Chrome: 54.0.2816.0
uBlock: 1.8.4
uBlock Origin has proven very useful as an additional layer of protection for users on Chrome in our Google Apps for Work domain. The issue we had was that we needed to whitelist some sites (including our own) across the domain.
Chrome Management allows XML configuration uploads, but it took some digging to figure out how to turn uBlock’s whitelist into a deployable Chrome configuration file. We update the whitelist periodically, and I wanted to quick way to make updates and get a working file.
Ended up throwing this up: http://ublock-chrome-config.appspot.com/
It takes newline separated domain listings and produces a pseudo-xml string that the Chrome Management panel will accept to push the config to uBlock Origin across a Google Apps domain.
Thought it might be useful for others as welll!
Does that forum not have options in your profile? Every forum software I’ve seen gives you the ability to toggle signatures. That’s everything from phpBB to SMF, vBulletin, etc.
uBlock Origin isn’t enough to get everything working correctly on IMDB after the block. What you’re looking for in this situation is a great extension called Stylish. gorhill corrected this and has covered the uBlock Origin method below my post.
I wrote you a quick Stylish stylesheet that you can use to block the entire right-column on IMDB, stretches the rest of the content to fill the width, and gets rid of the gray tint and border. Should look good!
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("imdb.com") {
.pagecontent #content-2-wide::before {
background-color: transparent;
border-width: 0;
}
#content-2-wide #main,
#content-2-wide .main {
width: 100%;
max-width: 100%;
}
#content-2-wide #sidebar {
display: none;
}
}
I hope this helps.
It should be enough. The equivalent of your rules in uBO are:
imdb.com###content-2-wide #sidebar
imdb.com###content-2-wide #main:style(width: 100%; max-width: 100%;)
imdb.com###content-2-wide .main:style(width: 100%; max-width: 100%;)
imdb.com##.pagecontent #content-2-wide::before:style(background-color: transparent; border-width: 0;)No, they don’t have that option… as it turned out, the site owner actually gave me the changes I needed to make to get it working. All it ended up being was:
forums.gta5-mods.com###content .post-signature
A lot of sites let you turn your own signature on or off but I wanted to turn everyone else’s off. All sorted now anyway.
Well then, I’m honestly impressed and surprised! Thanks for setting the record straight. I should probably explore uBO more. I’ll edit my post so others don’t get the wrong idea.
Now we have two ways 
The :style is a recent addition, so I understand it’s not widespread knowledge yet. See release notes for 1.8.0.