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[Request] Ignore first party trackers #909

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FatOrangutan opened this Issue · 3 comments

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@FatOrangutan

It would be great if uBlock could ignore first party trackers, "for example: ignore instances of DoubleClick tracker on doubleclick.com", similar to how Ghostery does it. It is something that needs to be done manually anyways, to make the website any usable.

@gorhill

I don't understand the request. You can create whatever filter you want.

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@FatOrangutan

Consider this scenario:
At the moment, I have * bannersnack.com * block as one of my filters.
This works fine as long as I don't visit bannerstack.com.
When I do, the webpage looks like this:
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This, although expected, requires an extra step to make the website any usable, that to noop bannerstack.com on bannerstack.com.
My request was to automate this process of nooping every tracker etc. on its own website, since it will be required in pretty much every scenario otherwise the website becomes / looks useless as in the screenshot.
This is also how Ghostery handles things by default: If I have whatever is the Ghostery equivalent of facebook.com * block, then this particular filter would be automatically ignored when I visit Facebook.com.

@gorhill

Dynamic filtering is for advanced user, those who accept that there will be micro-managing to do.

uBlock can't decide on user's behalf to automatically create an unblocking rule after the user entered a blocking rule, that goes counter to what the user may want, and counter to good security habit. No way uBlock will automatically create a rule which causes all javascript on site to execute after the user created a block rule. Maybe it's what you want, but uBlock can't read mind.

As you say, the workaround is simple, create a noop rule if you care about not breaking a specific web site, that's the safest approach.

@ahmadassaf ahmadassaf pushed a commit to ahmadassaf/uBlock that referenced this issue
@gorhill gorhill this addresses #909 7c4d1f5
@ahmadassaf ahmadassaf added a commit to ahmadassaf/uBlock that referenced this issue
@ahmadassaf ahmadassaf Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
* 'master' of https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock: (24 commits)
  reverting last change
  code review
  new redirect engine: this fixes #949 (the video ad part)
  this fixes #959
  this takes care of last-resort ads
  will wait for fix of travis-ci/travis-ci#5145
  still trying to fix travis
  trying to fix travis' automated build
  new revision for dev build
  #955: merging 1.3.6 changes
  this hopefully fixes #955
  translation work from https://crowdin.com/project/ublock
  this fixes #951
  new revision for dev build
  #948: undo first attempt at fix
  reportedly this fixes #948
  this fixes #948
  #948: this possibly addresses the 1st reported error case
  bump version for dev build
  this addresses #909
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