Support ABP filter rule extensions

[pes10k]

Copied over from brave-experiments/ad-block#113

This would help squeeze out some more stuff out of the some of the filters that are already used and it would make it possible to implement even more filters in the future. The new syntax is an extension of ABP Filter Syntax and should (in theory) not be too hard to implement. More info on it can be found here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#extended-syntax

In general, there is some value in supporting ABP specific additions, more so on network rules but possibly on cosmetic rules too. Low priority but would be "nice to have"

[mtl1979]

Big companies like Meta now use minified CSS, so nothing except :-abp-has() works for blocking the ads. They also split texts like "Sponsored" character by character with <span> elements to make it really hard to use injected JavaScript code to block the ads.

Browser vendors and some operating system vendors are slowly moving towards aggressive blocking and blacklisting of sites that try to circumvent adblockers, so it makes sense to make support for cosmetic filters higher than low priority.

[pes10k]

Yep! We’re well aware of this and should have something exciting to announce soon on this point (possibly even this month).

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[antonok-edm]

I think just about everything here is implemented already, closing