Hidding too much

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Nova25
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Hidding too much

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(Filter) Fanboy+Easylist-Marged Ultimate List

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##a[href="#top"]
...appears to be blocking/hiding too much on some website.
Namely : Deviantart

It literally breaks/hides features of Deviantart, like the 'Friend Online' and 'Favorites' drop-down menus (upper-right corner). This is rather problematic.

Breaks on Palemoon AND Firefox.
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Re: Hidding too much

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Ok... Ooook... I think I figured out a ''fix'' or ''temporary fix'' or whatever this can be called.

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~deviantart.com##a[href="#top"]
'This' doesn't get ''hits'', but it seems to allow the previously mentioned broken/hidden features to reappear on Deviantart.

If anyone has something better, just say it. I don't know what else this

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##a[href="#top"]
breaks on other websites.
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mapx
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Re: Hidding too much

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the classic exception is

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deviantart.com#@#a[href="#top"]
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Re: Hidding too much

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mapx wrote:the classic exception is

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deviantart.com#@#a[href="#top"]
Does it change anything ''more or less'' compared to the other exception I made ?
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Re: Hidding too much

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Ok, so from what I understand, both of them gives to same result, in the end.

But ! This one is like 2 things in 1. A rule and a limited exception to itself :

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~example.com##.textad
And this one is JUST an exception to an existing rule(like, one from a 'Filter list') :

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example.com#@#.textad
If I didn't already have a (for example) .textad rule in a filter, I could have the first one... But, since I already have a (for example) .textad rule in a filter, it would be ''better''(more optimal?) to have the second one instead.
Right ?
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Yes, use the second one, the first is not used if you check the easylist list.
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mapx wrote:Yes, use the second one, the first is not used if you check the easylist list.
Well... Something is not going like it 'theoretically' should, it seems.

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fimfiction.net#@#.like_button
Does NOT allow me to see the ''thumbs up'' icon.

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~fimfiction.net##.like_button
Allows me to see the icon.
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provide page, screenshot where do you expect that icon
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Re: Hidding too much

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Well, first thing first, to resume things... As I mentioned, these work for me (*something changed, recently),

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~deviantart.com##a[href="#top"]

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~fimfiction.net##.like_button
while

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deviantart.com#@#a[href="#top"]

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fimfiction.net#@#.like_button
don't work, for me.

Screenshot, ~x##y ...VS... x#@#y :
https://imgur.com/a/6YZdF

(anywhere on the whole website / Upper-right side of the screen, once connected on your account) https://www.deviantart.com/
and
(on any *story pages* on the website) https://www.fimfiction.net/story/198426 ... friendship

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*Tested on Palemoon 27.7.2 and Firefox 58.0.1.
~x##y work on Palemoon, but x#@#y doesn't, for both Deviantart and Fimfiction.

For Firefox... it's a bit more of a mess.
No modification seem required now, on Fimfiction. That's a recent development.
~x##y doesn't work anymore, recently, on Deviantart... and x#@#y works there now.
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Re: Hidding too much

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As I understand for FF 58 are working fine for you the @ filters, right ?
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Re: Hidding too much

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mapx wrote:As I understand for FF 58 are working fine for you the @ filters, right ?
Right now, yes, but it's fairly recent. It was weird for a good while, working on and off.

Some updates on both browsers and Adblock Plus and Adblock Latitude may have solved things, as far as the 'rule exceptions' are concerned.
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