uBlock breaks a site - now what?

[generallevy]

So uBlock breaks a site I frequent because of one JavaScript that gets blocked. How do I allow this one JavaScript on this one site?

I can use the whitelist but then I get a multitude of ads and other stuff I don't want.

[gorhill]

I can help if I can assess myself. Give me a URL.

[generallevy]

http://www.styleforum.net/t/230626/how-to-use-spoiler-function

Clicking on the Spoiler should reveal it, but it doesn't work. I believe it's because yui.yahooapis.com gets blocked. Not sure which list this is coming from.

I love how Ghostery has on/off switches for things it blocks (per site) but also understand the way uBlock blocks things is a little different.

[gorhill]

I am using the default filter lists here, and the spoilers expand fine. What are your filter lists?

[gorhill]

I love how Ghostery has on/off switches for things it blocks (per site)

Yes, I agree Ghostery's UI is pretty slick.

The closest you can find in uBlock is dynamic filtering, which can be made available when you check "I am an advanced user" in the settings. Once you have access to the dynamic filtering panel, you can override the block/allow status on a per-hostname basis, locally or globally. So this would allow you to un-block stuff from yui.yahooapis.com if you think it's where the problem is. (An example of using dynamic filtering to unbreak a site).

But unless one understand well how dynamic filtering works, I can't advise to use it, as I want it to be more a self-help tool.

There is a feature request in the pile to make it easy to create a filter from a log entry. This will come in time.

[generallevy]

yui.yahooapis.com seems to come from the hpHosts Ad and Tracking servers list, and of course if I disable that list the spoilers work.

BUT my main point here was that sometimes you want to switch off a filter per site. I actually used that feature in Ghostery quite a bit. However, I think performance is more important to me, so I will keep using uBlock and hope this feature gets implemented in the near future :)

Thanks a lot for your work!

[gorhill]

sometimes you want to switch off a filter per site.

Well as said with dynamic filtering you can override any filter from the filter lists (globally or per-site). Though not as granular as static filtering, it's serve well one of its purpose: point-and-click to easily un-break web sites.

Otherwise it's issue #68, but I want to address other issues (like #520) to make sure that when I fix #68 it will will work smoothly.

[gorhill]

I will add an exception to yui.yahooapis.com as per issue #17. I don't know why, but sometimes hpHosts get re-hauled with countless false positives as a result.