From 72fdce64f0cd9ee763032e9bb340658086ffd987 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gorhill <rhill@raymondhill.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 14:11:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix issue reported in comment
 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1669#issuecomment-224822448

---
 src/js/static-net-filtering.js | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/js/static-net-filtering.js b/src/js/static-net-filtering.js
index d0fe061e8..d9262b711 100644
--- a/src/js/static-net-filtering.js
+++ b/src/js/static-net-filtering.js
@@ -1566,7 +1566,11 @@ FilterParser.prototype.parse = function(raw) {
     // normalize placeholders
     if ( this.reHasWildcard.test(s) ) {
         // remove pointless leading *
-        if ( s.startsWith('*') ) {
+        // https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1669#issuecomment-224822448
+        // Keep the leading asterisk if we are dealing with a hostname-anchored
+        // filter, this will ensure the generic filter implementation is
+        // used.
+        if ( s.startsWith('*') && this.hostnameAnchored === false ) {
             s = s.replace(/^\*+([^%0-9a-z])/, '$1');
         }
         // remove pointless trailing *