Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/710
Messages from unprivileged ports (i.e. from content scripts)
are no longer relayed to message handlers which are to be
strictly used to execute privileged code.
The last remaining case of unprivileged messages which
should be converted into a privileged ones will be taken
care of when the following issue is fixed:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/3497
This also apply to setInterval-if. Thus to defuse
calls to setTimeout(fn, 1000), the filter could be:
##+js(stif, , !1000)
Meaning "allow setTimeout if the delay is not 1000".
Related commit:
- fb4e94f92c
A bidi-trie can't store strings longer than 255 characters
because the string segment lengths are encoded into a single
byte. This commit ensures only strings smaller than
256 characters are stored in the bidi-tries.
Plain filters can be any length, while the bidi-trie was
assuming max length of 256. The origin of this error
is from when the bidi-trie code was originally imported
from the hntrie code as start to develop bidi-trie.
The erroneous code could cause issue when the following
conditions were met:
- Plain filter longer than 256 characters
- Free space in bidi-trie's character buffer was less
than 256 bytes
Likely a rare occurrence, but some filter lists do contains
long plain filters, for example:
https://gitlab.com/curben/urlhaus-filter/raw/master/urlhaus-filter.txt
Related feedback:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/cs1y26/
Usage is similar to that of raf-if introduced in
commit 6831967f5f.
The two new scriptlets are meant to replace:
- setTimeout-defuser
- setTimeout-logger
- setInterval-defuser
- setInterval-logger
setTimeout-logger and setInterval-logger have been
removed, since they are not to be used in production.
To log setTimeout and setInterval usage, respectively
(using aliases):
- ##+js(stif)
- ##+js(siif)
To defuse setTimeout unconditionally:
- ##+js(stif, !)
Usage of setTimeout-defuser and setInterval-defuser
is deprecated and will be removed in some future when
they are no longer in use.
Keep in mind that the new scriptlets function on a
whitelist basis, whereas the deprecated ones
function on a blacklist basis. Prefixing the needle
with `!` allow to use the new scriptlets on a
blacklist basis.
Scriptlet name: `raf-if.js`
Usage: `example.com##+js(raf-if, !/(\d+){4}/)`
Argument: one single argument, which is the "needle" to
find in the stringified argument passed to
requestAnimationFrame.
requestAnimationFrame will be defused when:
- The needle is not prefixed with `!` and the needle
does not match the stringified argument; OR
- The needle is prefixed with `!` and the needle
matches the stringified argument.
The `raf-if.js` scriptlet will log calls to
requestAnimationFrame to the console when no parameter
is provided, i.e.:
example.com##+js(raf-if)
Otherwise no logging occurs.
The purpose is to wholly disable scriptlet injection
for a given site without having to create exceptions
for all matching scriptlet injection filters.
The following exception filter will cause scriptlet
injection to be wholly disable for `example.com`:
`example.com#@#+js()`
Or to disable scriptlet injection everywhere:
`#@#+js()`
The following form is meaningless and will be
ignored:
`example.com##+js()`
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/701
The filter option `empty` is converted to `redirect=empty`
by uBO internally; however unlike when the `redirect=`
option is used expressly, the `empty` option does not
require a resource type.
When `empty` is used, only network requests which are meant
to return a text response will be redirected to an empty
response body by uBO -- so `empty` will not work for
resources such as images, media, or other binary resources.