General filter chit-chat №2

[DandelionSprout]

Note, 13th of February 2023: Next de facto discussion place until further notice is at #779.

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So today I learned that GitHub threads max out at 2,500 comments, despite nothing and no one ever telling me about that previously, let alone GitHub's help pages. So here's thread number 2!

This thread is a megathread about adblock discussions in general. Here one can request syntax help, reproduction confirmations, info about differences between adblockers, assistance with making new lists, and so on. They'll be answered or considered by the biggest Adfilt contributors, and occasionally by members of the uBlock Origin development team (although in an unofficial fashion). (This header section was last updated on the 24th of April 2019 by DandelionSprout.)

Same non-obligatory rules apply as in the previous thread (Rules can be amended by Dandelion Sprout on very short notice, but this happens pretty rarely):

• Anything ad-, adblocker-, and adblocking-related of any sort goes.
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[THEtomaso]

today I learned that GitHub threads max out at 2,500 comments

How are we expected to resolve any issues, with such a low limit!? :)

[krystian3w]

Github crash, I have many errors 500 on update files in online editor or send comments:

"You can't comment at this time. ".

[THEtomaso]

@DandelionSprout:

Ad labels between feed entries:
https://sol.no/studio/sol-livestudio/388/

Possible fix:
sol.no##[class^="AdPrefix"]

[Yuki2718]

@THEtomaso Just a personal opinion about the matter you noted in the previous thread. Using social filter does not necessarily mean you wanna block anything social. I don't use Facebook and I subscribe AdGuard Social, but hope any of my filters never ever interfere with news article about Facebook which may or may not include links to FB, which unfortunately for me was the case for Fanboy Social - I don't report such one-time false positives but still they're annoying. I rather wonder why so many filters, not limited to social ones, prefer generic rules and don't make specific rules one-by-one - this way you can avoid most of false positives, and I believe it's more efficient in terms of performance unless the number of rules goes too many. I don't expect any filter to be perfect on blocking and kinda accept some false negatives, but single false positive is annoying enough despite I can fix them. I maintain my own private filters which currently include about 2,000 rules each for PC & mobile, most of them are specific rules and I make a rule generic only after I confirmed the pattern is found on many sites (usually 3-5+ sites). AdGuard also tends to use more specific rules compared to EasyList/Fanboy and even replaced some generic rules in EL with specific rules, which I think makes sense given most AG users are noobs. Well, one thing I'm not so happy is AG filters tend to rely too much on cosmetic filters which I don't see much value.

[THEtomaso]

I maintain my own private filters which currently include about 2,000 rules each

Getting close to 19.000 rules in my own filter, and particularly the social media entries (site-specific ones) has gotten way out of hand!

[THEtomaso]

@DandelionSprout:

chilimobil.no and prisjakt.no ads + empty ad boxes with labels:

https://www.tek.no/
https://www.tek.no/nyheter/nyhet/i/OpJ7nw/

Possible fix:

tek.no#?#.lp_article_content > div:-abp-contains(annonse)
tek.no#?#section > div > div:-abp-contains(annonse)
tek.no#?##application > div > main > div > div:-abp-contains(annonse)

[THEtomaso]

894b915

The crap remains!:

[DandelionSprout]

I missed out on the Prisjakt ad the first time around. I don't consider the phone subscription comparison to be an ad at the time of writing, although I feel they could've shared more info about the comparison. The bottom ad placeholder will be fixed in Pale Moon once the :nth-ancestor fix goes live.

[THEtomaso]

Also, you missed the ad label in my last screenshot!

EDIT:
..and there's more Prisjakt stuff here!:
https://www.tek.no/produkter/19266/