uBlock Orign as a Limiter of Useless Information Flow

The modern Internet user is so accustomed to the garbage content of sites that even psychologically most of them do not feel indignation at the fact that they are trying to pollute their brains by awakening base instincts: greed, envy, euphoria, exacerbation of feelings of hunger and lust. This is what earnings and turnover in the modern world are built on.

The main task is to take away your time at the beginning (whatever you like), so to speak, “get hooked”, and then money, when you get psychologically stuck in this swamp. It doesn't matter what audience it is designed for, there are tricks for each group of psychologically dependent people. Even when looking for information on a technical topic, you can turn the wrong way in the process of searching

the screenshot was taken from a real site

With each new version of uBlock, new functions are added to the extension, which not many people know about. For the average user, two methods of manual blocking are still available: using the “pipette” and “lightning”. Lightning can be used to quickly clean up a page before printing, and filters created by the pipette can in some cases be edited (shortened) based on the logic of use. These tools provide the user with quite flexible settings in many cases.

Below I will give a few simple examples of how you can block unnecessary things on certain pages of the site. When using a regular eyedropper does not work as expected.

The main breeding ground for evil is the main page of websites. Wherever you go, they try to divert your attention from the main purpose of the visit. If it's a store, they force you to buy unnecessary goods. Video hosting – to watch endless short videos. For this reason, you can block everything on the main page except the search and account login buttons (after all, that's why you go to the main page of these sites, right?).

This idea is not new and exists in the form of separate scripts or browser extensions. For example, here is a not very old article about a similar extension for YouTube, when the main page takes on a human appearance. A similar trick can be done with the uBlock origin extension, but not everywhere. Examples:

Online store website

or video hosting

nothing distracts me and I'm not ashamed of my homeland

Weather forecast. Nothing extra, just a weather forecast

It's a pity that all scripts can't be blocked

In very rare cases, a site may offer some customization options for its display.

The filter in ublock is created as follows:

When you manually block an element, a rule like this will appear in “My Filters”:

название_любого_сайта##.sticky-player

so that uBlock would block .sticky-player only on the main page of the site change the created rule like this

название_любого_сайта##:matches-path(/^/$/) .sticky-player

so that uBlock would block .sticky-player only on pages название_любого_сайта/results?sp=…you need to change the created rule like this

название_любого_сайта##:matches-path(/results?sp=) .sticky-player

A post by a Habr user with other examples of blocking.

Minimum uBlock version 1.38 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-filters?ysclid=m1giyebkbc629813390#subjectmatches-patharg

For mobile browsers Firefox 68 and Kiwi for Android 4.1 – 4.4, the last working uBlock was version 1.46. On some computers and mobile devices, version 1.57 and newer may work slower and with glitches, then install 1.56.

Well, I want to thank the compiler of the filter list “RU AdList” dimisa With http://forum.ru-board.com who told me about them.