Now you: do you use custom blocking rules for sites?Įven if I’ve been using uBlocko (“o” as Original, what else?!) since it was launched there are still features I lack less to use than to totally master.
How to whitelist a website with ublock manual#
All it takes is a couple of clicks, and sometimes some manual adjusting, to block elements permanently. The browser extension uBlock Origin makes it super easy to block content on web pages you visit. Select apply changes afterwards to save the selection again. This is rather easy to do as filters are always separated by a space, so that you know where filters begin and end. You need to remove all lines of a filter. There you find listed all custom filters that you have added earlier or imported. Switch to "my filters on the page that opens.
You do that by right-clicking on the uBlock Origin icon in the browser and selecting the options link. Now that you have set some filters, you may at one point in time want to remove filters again. It is usually best to use the built-in developer tools for that to go through the page source. The only option you have in this case is to find a common denominator and block that instead. This may result in you blocking the element on one page, but not on any other page of the site. Note: some sites use dynamic identifiers for some elements on their sites. It stays hidden even if you reload the page. If you do that, the selected element is removed from the page. Take a look at the screenshot above to see where it is located on a page.Ī click on preview removes the selected element temporarily so that you see how the page looks like without it.Ĭlick create to add the rule to uBlock Origin. You need to move the mouse cursor to the lower right of the browser window once you have locked an item to reveal the semi-transparent rule creator. This step can be a bit confusing, as there is no real indication what to do at this point. Now that you have made a selection, it is time to add the rule to uBlock Origin so that the selected element is removed from the page. The selection icon on the other hand is easy enough to spot as it selects elements the mouse cursor hovers over. You will notice that elements are not selected anymore when you move the mouse.
The stop button indicates that an element has been locked. The extension's element picker mode uses two different icons that indicate its status. So, if the action did not pick the right element right away, you need to click once, and move the mouse around until it gets it right.Ĭlick again to lock the selection. This enables element picking mode which highlights the element the mouse is on at any point in time.
You may adjust the selection by moving the mouse cursor and clicking once elsewhere. Once you select the option, the element right underneath the mouse cursor is highlighted in red, while the remainder of the page is darkened. You may either right-click on any element in the browser and select the "block element" option from the context menu. You have two options to invoke the blocking functionality of uBlock Origin.
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