Suggestion: Add "Add Exception" to Adblock Plus

iamunknown2 · Post by **iamunknown2** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 11:44 am

In the GUI, there is only an option for exempting the whole site from being subject to Adblock Plus'... wrath

However, the average Joe (which doesn't know how to add exceptions for certain elements) wouldn't be able to foil a simple anti-Adblock scheme like this (scheme made by myself):

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<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
	<head>
		<title>Block</title>
		<style>
			#ADInterest
			{
				width: 100%;
				height: 100%;
				background-color: white;
			}

			body
			{
				background-image: url(insert img with anti-adblock message);
				background-size: 100%;
				background-repeat: no-repeat;
			}
		</style>
	<body>
		<div id="ADInterest">
			Lorem ipsem...
		</div>
	</body>
</html>

The above system works, because Adblock Plus would hide the div with the ID of "ADInterest". Since the whole div is hidden, it would hide the content as well!

Could someone add a GUI in the Adblock Plus pop-up which would un-hide/reloading everything hidden previously by Adblock Plus (presumably through disabling temporarily and reloading), before showing a WYSIWYG editor which would allow you to select elements to delete one by one?

lewisje · Post by **lewisje** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 7:31 pm

I know there are already a couple of options that fit here ($elemhide and $generichide), but I thought the $document option (which is used when whitelisting a page) would also keep element-hiding from working.

There are also element-hiding whitelist rules, so if there's a rule like example.com###ADInterest then it can be cancelled with the whitelist rule example.com#@##ADInterest and all of these can be auto-generated.

Suggestion: Add "Add Exception" to Adblock Plus

Suggestion: Add "Add Exception" to Adblock Plus

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