General filter chit-chat (original) (raw)

Edit by Dandelion Sprout 25th of February 2020: GitHub spectacularly failed to tell me that there was a comment limit of 2,500 comments in issue threads?! So now it seems that discussion has been forcibly moved to #63 instead.

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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.)

None of the rules for this thread are obligatorily enforced, but are considered customary as of at the time of the last edit:

• Anything ad-, adblocker-, and adblocking-related of any sort goes.
• Temporary derails are permitted.
• Political discussions are only permitted if they are directly related to something adblock-related.
• Disclosing personal opinions about everyday topics (e.g. family life, non-tech worklife, strong political stances, pizza toppings) is normally discouraged, on the assumption that it could lead to thread participants losing some of their respect for one another.
• When mentioning websites that are (not) affected by adblocking, it is customary to wrap website names and adblocker entries into ` (Grave accents). This will allegedly make it harder for the websites to find this thread in search engines.
• Swearing is normally permitted, but is considered bad form. Swearing as a part of an insultment is even more of a bad form.
• While the following has not been a problem in this thread, they have been sporadic problems among uBO enthusiasts: It is advised to not be hyper-excited when writing comments, whereas reporting thread participants or this repo to GitHub (unless you have a very good reason) is probable grounds for insta-removal from the thread and for the humiliation and pariah-ism of you from the uBlock Origin community.
• If you wish to emote-react to your own comment: Why not use Windows+. to insert the emote into the end of the actual comment instead? It'll save some vertical space as well. (This rule is sleeping for W7 users until 14th of January 2020, and for W8 users until further notice.)

This thread originally started out as a simple report about removing the blurring from the preview of a premium news article, and is still visible below this line:

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Affected site:

https://www.aftenposten.no/

Example:

https://www.aftenposten.no/karriere/Viktoria-16-betaler-n-million-for-en-karrire-som-ender-nar-hun-er-40-12051b.html

Issue:

Cosmetic filtering blocks the "salesposter" for subscription articles.
This results in strangely abrupted page layouts, that gives you the impression that the pages haven't loaded properly, or has some type of error on them.
As annoying as these type of "salesposters" may look, it's better not to block them, to avoid confusion!

Problem filter:

Dandelion Sprouts norske filtre for ryddigere nettsider

Problem rule:

aftenposten.no##.widgets.widget-salesposter

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• OS/version: Windows 8.1 Pro (x64)
• Browser/version: Pale Moon v27.9.3 (x64)
• Adblock Extension/version: uBlock Origin v1.16.4.2 (XUL)