Skip bloatware/malware pages from malicious adv-based URL shorteners

[Roccobot]

Basically, a feature I recently discovered in uBlock Origin which I use at work: really handy (also improves security a lot), so I'd like to have the same in Adguard. Don't know if it's just a filter thing or if it has to be implemented specifically as a feature. Anyway, I enabled all the uBlock filters lists in Adguard and it doesn't seem to work.

The following is the best example I could find.
If you open this page*, then you click on Download, you completely bypass the gloyah.net ad-filled page (which usually opens a lot of popups and stuff). With Adguard, I need to whitelist some of those domains in order to proceed, then wait for the countdown to turn into the 'Next' button, then click and cross my fingers (sometimes an ugly fullscreen mobile game ad appears thanks to the whitelisting).

* (it takes you to the download of a fansubbed show, hosted in Italy where it's 100% legal, so I hope I can use it as an example here)

Is it possible to have the same enhancement in Adguard? It would be awesome.

 

[Boo Berry]

Anyway, I enabled all the uBlock filters lists in Adguard and it doesn't seem to work.

That's because AdGuard doesn't support uBlock Origin's extended syntax for filters... yet. I say yet because that's coming through Scriptlets, meaning you'll be able to use uBlock Origin filters that uses extended syntax in AdGuard for Windows, AdGuard for Mac and AdGuard for Android. Experimental support landed recently in the AdGuard Adblocker browser extensions.

Scriptlets: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/Scriptlets
Compatibility: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/Scriptlets#compatibility

 

[Roccobot]

That's because AdGuard doesn't support uBlock Origin's extended syntax for filters... yet. I say yet because that's coming through Scriptlets, meaning you'll be able to use uBlock Origin filters that uses extended syntax in AdGuard for Windows, AdGuard for Mac and AdGuard for Android. Experimental support landed recently in the AdGuard Adblocker browser extensions.

Scriptlets: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/Scriptlets
Compatibility: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/Scriptlets#compatibility

Thank you! So I'm assuming your answer means the thing is achieved 'just' by filters with extended syntax?

 

[Boo Berry]

Yes.

 

[Roccobot]

I see it's way more complicated than I thought
Hope the community will come to help basic users with the scriplets, they seem very powerful!

 

[Adam]

I think that you can use the same script which uBlock Origin is using to bypass gloyah.net timer/ads, but with AdGuard syntax.
If you add this rule to user filter it should skip timer/ads:

gloyah.net#%#(function(){var f=/^\d$/;try{var g,h=!0;Object.defineProperty(window,"ysmm",{configurable:!1,set:function(d){if(h){h=!1;try{if("string"===typeof d){var c="",e="",a;for(a=0;a<d.length;a++)0===a%2?c+=d.charAt(a):e=d.charAt(a)+e;var b=(c+e).split("");for(a=0;a<b.length;a++)if(f.test(b[a]))for(c=a+1;c<b.length;c++)if(f.test(b[c])){var k=parseInt(b[a],10)^parseInt(b[c],10);10>k&&(b[a]=k.toString());a=c;break}b=b.join("");var l=window.atob(b).slice(16,-16);window.stop();window.onbeforeunload=null;window.location.href= l}}catch(m){}}g=d},get:function(){return g}})}catch(d){window.console.error("Failed to set up Adfly bypasser!")}})();

 

[Roccobot]

I think that you can use the same script which uBlock Origin is using to bypass gloyah.net timer/ads, but with AdGuard syntax.
If you add this rule to user filter it should skip timer/ads:

gloyah.net#%#(function(){var f=/^\d$/;try{var g,h=!0;Object.defineProperty(window,"ysmm",{configurable:!1,set:function(d){if(h){h=!1;try{if("string"===typeof d){var c="",e="",a;for(a=0;a<d.length;a++)0===a%2?c+=d.charAt(a):e=d.charAt(a)+e;var b=(c+e).split("");for(a=0;a<b.length;a++)if(f.test(b[a]))for(c=a+1;c<b.length;c++)if(f.test(b[c])){var k=parseInt(b[a],10)^parseInt(b[c],10);10>k&&(b[a]=k.toString());a=c;break}b=b.join("");var l=window.atob(b).slice(16,-16);window.stop();window.onbeforeunload=null;window.location.href= l}}catch(m){}}g=d},get:function(){return g}})}catch(d){window.console.error("Failed to set up Adfly bypasser!")}})();

Amazing, it seems to work! But for some reason only if I add it as a 'local' filter (in the Adguard for Mac Preferences pane). If I add it to my remote TXT file I use to sync my rules between my different devics it won't work

 

[Adam]

If I add it to my remote TXT file I use to sync my rules between my different devics it won't work

I don't have MacOS, so I'm not sure how it looks like in AdGuard for Mac, but if I'm not wrong in AdGuard for Windows from version 7 is necessary to mark filters as trusted to make JavaScript/$replace rules work.

Spoiler: Screenshot

I guess that the same is necessary in AdGuard for Mac.

 

[Roccobot]

I don't have MacOS, so I'm not sure how it looks like in AdGuard for Mac, but if I'm not wrong in AdGuard for Windows from version 7 is necessary to mark filters as trusted to make JavaScript/$replace rules work.

Spoiler: Screenshot

View attachment 14807

I guess that the same is necessary in AdGuard for Mac.

Yeah, I added my 'remote' filter list as a trusted source, but I see at the next boot it lost his 'trusted' mark. Could this be a bug?

 

[Roccobot]

Actually, I double checked: it losts its mark immediately: I add my filter from URL, click 'Next', confirm and my 'Roccobot Filters' list is marked as trusted.
I close then reopen the Preferences pane and the mark is gone and the extended syntax doesn't work (screenshots in sequence).

Side question: I didn't add @@||hbl.local$document in my custom user filters list.. is it something that the application adds by itself?

 

[Adam]

Could this be a bug?

Probably it is, but unfortunately I can't check it.
Could you please report it here - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForMac/issues

Side question: I didn't add @@||hbl.local$document in my custom user filters list.. is it something that the application adds by itself?

To be honest, I don't know, but I think it shouldn't happens.

 

[Roccobot]

Could you please report it here - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForMac/issues

Done; anyway the GitHub form required a customer ID which you get after a in-app support request, and I can't manage to do it with analytic info attached. Hope it counts a valid issue anyway.

To be honest, I don't know, but I think it shouldn't happens.

Where should I report the 'auto-added' custom filter?

 

[Boo Berry]

Here: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForMac/issues

Report that it loses trusted status after reboot. I should be able to see if I can confirm it in a bit.

 

[Boo Berry]

Confirmed. It is indeed a bug.

 

[Adam]

Done; anyway the GitHub form required a customer ID which you get after a in-app support request, and I can't manage to do it with analytic info attached. Hope it counts a valid issue anyway.

Customer ID is optional, so of course it's valid.
Thank you for reporting it.

 

[Roccobot]

Report that it loses trusted status after reboot. I should be able to see if I can confirm it in a bit.

A reboot isn't actually required: I see the bug immediately after I reopen the preferences pane

 

[Boo Berry]

Ah, so you're right.

 

[Blaz]

If you add this rule to user filter it should skip timer/ads:

gloyah.net#%#(function(){var f=/^\d$/;try{var g,h=!0;Object.defineProperty(window,"ysmm",{configurable:!1,set:function(d){if(h){h=!1;try{if("string"===typeof d){var c="",e="",a;for(a=0;a<d.length;a++)0===a%2?c+=d.charAt(a):e=d.charAt(a)+e;var b=(c+e).split("");for(a=0;a<b.length;a++)if(f.test(b[a]))for(c=a+1;c<b.length;c++)if(f.test(b[c])){var k=parseInt(b[a],10)^parseInt(b[c],10);10>k&&(b[a]=k.toString());a=c;break}b=b.join("");var l=window.atob(b).slice(16,-16);window.stop();window.onbeforeunload=null;window.location.href= l}}catch(m){}}g=d},get:function(){return g}})}catch(d){window.console.error("Failed to set up Adfly bypasser!")}})();

Added to Annoyances filter (tweaks). Update available in about 3 hours.

 

[Roccobot]

Added to Annoyances filter (tweaks). Update available in about 3 hours.

WOW, thanks!