Blocked element is not hidden after HTTP redirect

[dbdr]

http://sane.email/ublock-bug.html

The image is correctly blocked, but the element is left visible as a broken image.

[gorhill]

The image src is different than what is blocked: there is server-side redirection going on, and uBlock can't match the src with the blocked request:

Image.src = http://li.blogtrottr.com/imp?s=124178&sz=116x15&li=3&m=[...]

Blocked request:

http://p.liadm.com/imp?s=124178&sz=116x15&li=3&m=[...]

ABP exhibits same behavior.

[dbdr]

Thanks for your analysis. Is there a way this could be made to work?

[gorhill]

Yes, there could be a way, but in my opinion it's not worth the code complexity/overhead. If ever this case becomes very common, then I suppose this will have to be done, but currently it's really not common, and I rather not bring complexity/overhead to the code at this point for such a edge case.

[gorhill]

Note that there is a workaround: to use the element picker to create a network filter for the URL in the Image.src.

[gorhill]

I'm going to close as "by design". Other blockers have same behavior. Work around is to create a custom filter which matches the src of the image, ||li.blogtrottr.com/imp$image in the current case.