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How to Unblock a Web Page Element With uBlock Origin

How to Unblock a Web Page Element With uBlock Origin

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Mel Hawthorne 2 Comments

When using an ad blocker, you may occasionally run across websites where important content is obviously missing, or some site functionality is broken. This is generally caused by overzealous filters blocking an important script or image. Thankfully, you can manually override any rule in uBlock Origin.

To unblock any element, you need to open the uBlock Origin network logger, you can do this by clicking the uBlock Origin icon in the extensions bar, then clicking on the “Open the logger” icon that is second from the right at the bottom of the popup window.

Click on the uBlock Origin icon, then click on the “Open the logger” icon, to open the network logger.

Tip: There are two types of filters, network filters, and cosmetic filter. A network filter blocks the request for a resource, preventing it from ever being downloaded. A cosmetic filter hides an element that has loaded on a page.

Disabling a network filter

A network filter appears highlighted in red in the network logger. Locate the filter that you want to override then click on the second, third, or fifth column to open the rule details view.

Next, you need to switch to the URL rule tab. Here you can see the URL of the blocked resource. If you want to just unblock the exact resource, you can unblock it with the top entry. If you’d prefer to unblock a directory, potentially unblocking multiple items with one rule, you can unblock one of the lower list entries.

Whichever level of the resource you want to unblock you should use the left column to mark it as grey or green. The grey filter option means “No-operation” while green means allow, both settings will unblock the blocked element.

Locate the item you want to unblock, then apply a grey or green rule to it to unblock it.

Once you’ve applied your override, click the small refresh icon in the top-right corner of the URL rule tab to reload the target page with the filter override in place. If the override doesn’t fix the issue, you should revert the change and try again. If the override does work, click the lock icon on the top-left of the URL rule tab to save the override.

Disabling a cosmetic filter

Cosmetic filters appear highlighted in yellow in the network filter. Once you’ve identified a filter you want to disable, click on the second, third, or fifth columns of the respective row to open the filter details.

Leave the filter details information open, and switch back to the window and tab of the webpage you’re trying to fix. Right-click on the uBlock Origin icon in the extensions bar, then select “Options” from the right-click menu.

Open the uBlock Origin settings panel by right-clicking on its icon and selecting “Options”.

In the uBlock Origin’s options, switch to the “My filters” tab. To override a cosmetic filter, you need to enter to following details from the details view you opened before: “<Context>#@#<Filter>”. This filter breaks down to mean: On the website <Context>, apply a cosmetic filter exception, to <Filter>.

To unblock a cosmetic filter, enter a cosmetic filter exception in the format: “#@#”, as in this example.

Once you’ve entered the cosmetic filter exception, click “Apply changes” in the top left of the “My filters” tab, then refresh the affected page. If the cosmetic filter exception was applied correctly the relevant element should now be visible, and the entry in the network logger should appear with a strikethrough effect.

f the cosmetic filter exception was applied correctly, the relevant element will be visible, and the network logger entry will have a strikethrough effect.

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Comments

  1. Tranche says

    December 18, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    There are two ways to use the Green function again.

    A.
    1. Options
    2. I am an advanced user (required reading)
    3. gear icon (⚙️)
    4. filterAuthorMode = true

    B.
    1, While the uBO’s popup is open, double-tap the Ctrl key.
    2. Double-hit it again to disable it.

  2. Damien says

    November 20, 2020 at 2:50 pm

    this is not accurate. there is no green option anymore…

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