[Roadmap] Wildcards and $domain

[fanboy]

trying to replace a filter like this,

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@@|http://earth.google.

with something like this,

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@@.google-analytics.$domain=earth.google.*

Just doesn't seem to work :/

[Adblock Plus Fan]

I'd like wildcards to work on domain filter options as well. As fanboy pointed out, it can be useful for different country domains.

[Wladimir Palant]

Domains being "inflexible" was both a performance consideration and a feature - if they match right side only there no chance of false positives. It is also consistent with the way domains are used for element hiding. But I agree that Google doesn't make it easy to use domain-based rules.

[SlimShady]

Greasemonkey has a Magic TLD.

When writing include and exclude rules in the metadata block of a Greasemonkey script, using the magic syntax .tld in place of a specific top-level domain will match against any top-level domain.

I recall you were struggling with TLDs while developing the 'third-party' feature. Maybe you could also use that code for the 'domain' option.
And the 'magic tld' for url filters?

[Wladimir Palant]

Ok, that's something to consider...

[Adblock Plus Fan]

And the 'magic tld' for url filters?

This could be very interesting. Perhaps as a separate option?
Something like example.com$magic-tld

edit:
But I guess that wouldn't work since .com would need to match an item before filter option is considered?

[Wladimir Palant]

Scheduled for Adblock Plus 1.4, tentatively - time to start looking into this.

[Adblock Plus Fan]

EDIT

The magic TLD implementation is needed more than ever now with Easyprivacy's policy change of filtering domains. And the tracking networks have already started exploiting this weakness:
http://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=8037

Scratch that. Didn't turn out to be as urgent as I thought, since apparently the Easyprivacy maintainers are fine with adding a many domain entries as necessary.

Sorry about the meaningless bump

[Ares2]

Also, if they would really try to "exploit" this, what would stop them to register trackingserver2.com, tracking-server.com, etc. if trackingserver.* is blocked? The possibilities are endless.

[Guest]

Also, if they would really try to "exploit" this, what would stop them to register trackingserver2.com, tracking-server.com, etc. if trackingserver.* is blocked? The possibilities are endless.

At that point wouldn't it just be that time where a user would add the new website to the list? Yes the possibilities are endless, but we can at least add them as we encounter them..right?

[zaza]

Also, if they would really try to "exploit" this, what would stop them to register trackingserver2.com, tracking-server.com, etc. if trackingserver.* is blocked? The possibilities are endless.

At that point wouldn't it just be that time where a user would add the new website to the list? Yes the possibilities are endless, but we can at least add them as we encounter them..right?

That's a good point. Can't something be implemented in this regard?


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