Why is the ClickFix mitigation in the "ads" filter list?

[grishka]

Doesn't it belong in "badware risks" since it has nothing to do with ads? I was really surprised when copying things from websites broke (see #34321) since I only use uBO to block ads, I specifically don't subscribe to any malware-related filters.

[stephenhawk8054]

Badware list is not available on Safari due to their limitations of MV3 implementations: uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home#628 (comment)

[grishka]

But I'm not on Safari and I don't want malware protection, so why should this affect me 🤔

[stephenhawk8054]

Because the badware list is not available on Safari, if the filter is in that list, it won't appear for Safari users, hence it's in the list that is available to all platforms.

[proton-ab]

Consider bundling smaller Badware list for Safari exclusively instead of littering random filters across other lists. What's gonna happen next? Half of Peter Lowe's list gonna be included in "Ads" too?

Note these filters can't even be bypassed by badfilter due to unstable regular expression used. I'd need to constantly keep it up to date with your latest changes.

[stephenhawk8054]

Half of Peter Lowe's list gonna be included in "Ads" too?

The reason those lists are discarded is due to the number of rules exceed Safari's limitations so we can't even and we won't put it nor the badware lists in other lists. The clickfix filter could be added because it's not counted as a network rule in MV3 so scriptlet filters won't be affected by MV3 implementation limitations. I don't know why you bring that list to here when you don't understand what exactly happened.

You can select and copy the command manually in the warning. If there are false positive sites, just report about the sites. If no one bother to report them, nothing can be done further. We are volunteers.