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Hi, I'm a new ABP user. First, thanks for making such a helpful product.

After reading the news that Facebook is beginning an effort to block ad-blocking software from working on FB's site, I'm interested to know what ABP's plans are to prevent this from succeeding. I am not on FB for this very reason--ads and other intrusive elements. But as a member of the public I still believe that this is an important issue, and I'd like to know where ABP stands on the matter.

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Thanks.

In ABP We Trust. :)

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Post by sucrat »

hi,
I tried it with this regular expression but does not work
# * (u_jsonp_ \ d * _ \ d *)
while using real numbers blocks the "post recommended"
Example: # * (u_jsonp_ 15 _ 2)
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Post by mapx »

there aren't allowed regular expressions in the hiding filters
try
facebook.com###u_jsonp_2_1
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mapx wrote:there aren't allowed regular expressions in the hiding filters
try
facebook.com###u_jsonp_2_1
this work fine: # * (u_jsonp_ 2_ 1)

the problem is that always change those numbers _2_1
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well, probably we should wait to see the implementation of such things:
https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/2360
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Post by STR8_AN94BALLER »

mapx wrote:well, probably we should wait to see the implementation of such things:
https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/2360

Hmm, got a few ads already shoved in my face. Guess no facebook for the time being I suppose.
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getting facebook ad's here too. so far its just for facebook pages.
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test this filter
facebook.com##div[data-xt]
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Post by sucrat »

mapx wrote:test this filter
facebook.com##div[data-xt]
work fine for me but I do not understand the meaning of div[data-xt]

thanks for explanation :)
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should be the same with
facebook.com###data-xt

about filters:
en/filters
en/filter-cheatsheet
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sucrat wrote:work fine for me but I do not understand the meaning of div[data-xt]
It means "a div that has a data-xt attribute": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... _selectors
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Post by STR8_AN94BALLER »

So the bigger problem now is that ABP doesn't yet support the custom element hiding syntax required to block these ads?
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for now just update easylist, see if works.
The above comment about implementation is the possibility to have a new feature to fight better (FB will respond to the new easylist filters ...)
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