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.
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?
Adblock Plus Fan wrote: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.
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.
Ares2 wrote: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?
Ares2 wrote: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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