How do I "whitelist" a youtube channel?

[sooqua]

I'm trying to get this script to work: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/4168-youtube-whitelist-channels-in-adblock-plus
But I'm stuck with this fr*cking filter that just won't work no matter what I do.

[sooqua]

why is this not working?
@@||youtube.com^$document

[gorhill]

$document is not supported in filters. To support what you wish here, the clean solution is to extend the syntax for whitelisting.

I don't like ABP's $document option, it is hacky, because it's a filter which is quite different from other filters: all other filters apply to each net request themselves. The $document option influence the outcome of future net requests, so really it should be part of the whitelist directives, not part of the filter set.

[gorhill]

I will extend the whitelisting syntax such that to whitelist for the example you link to will be to use this line as a whitelist directive:

https://youtube.com/*&user=[PASTE THE USER NAME HERE]*

[kurtextrem]

Nice! Great news.

[kurtextrem]

You should add this to the wiki I'd say.

[gorhill]

The feature is not released yet. I want to add more code to harden, and make the feature more friendly internally. For example, imagine adding a complicated whitelist directive -- like the one for Youtube above -- which could be removed by the a simple click on the big power button. I have in mind that when this happens, the directive will be commented out rather than being removed for directives which cannot be easily recreated from the popup UI.

[sooqua]

Would it ever be possible to whitelist a youtube channel without external script, so it won't reload each page? Besides, it's the only reason I have tampermonkey installed.

[kurtextrem]

It is possible without tampermonkey, I could do an extension. But I don't think it will be possible without a reload: First of all the page needs to be downloaded, to add the youtube username to the url. After that the reload is a must. uBlock checks the url, finds out it is on the whitelist and doesn't block ads. A whitelist-without-reload would only work if Youtube sent the username in the header, or in the ads' urls. (They didn't last time I've checked)

[sooqua]

Actually I was thinking of parsing HTML text directly through uBlock

[kurtextrem]

Oh yes, that'd be cool.

[sooqua]

It's just the only solution I can come up with right now... :\

[gorhill]

parsing HTML text directly through uBlock

There is no guarantee this won't require reload: there is no guarantee secondary resources are not trying to load before the HTML can be parsed. There is also that this is a rather ugly hack for a very specific case (Youtube). The real fix should be on Youtube's side -- to provide info in the URL about who uploaded a specific video.

[kurtextrem]

A tiny improvement could be this:

• You open a youtube link
• You watch the video until it's over
• The script adds the username to the url, reloads the page, mutes the commercial and closes the tab after it's over

not the best.. but would be better than opening a link, letting it reload, watching the ad, watching the vid

[bestpika]

Could I write @@||youtube.com^ ?

[gorhill]

Could I write @@||youtube.com^?

This would whitelist requests from youtube.com regardless of channel, not the same thing as whitelisting a specific youtube.com channel.