medium.com: nuisance

[3xploiton3]

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URL address of the web page

https://medium.com/teamresellerclub/how-to-protect-your-vps-hosted-website-from-ddos-threats-119e121b430b

Category

nuisance

Description

Other extensions used

no

Screenshot(s)

Screenshot(s)

Configuration

uBlock Origin 1.50.0:
 since: 35d.50m
Chromium: 114
filterset (summary):
 network: 128948
 cosmetic: 142368
 scriptlet: 26458
 html: 0
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
 added:
  https://adblockid.pages.dev/adblockid.adfl.txt: 9882-4, 22h.35m
  https://adblockid.pages.dev/adblockid_plus.adfl.txt: 524-4, 1d.22h.38m
  DEU-0: 6962-0, 22h.37m
  IDN-0: 9560-368, 1d.22h.39m
  RUS-0: 39622-50, 1d.22h.39m
  ara-0: 2321-6, 22h.36m
  easylist-annoyances: 3895-47, 1d.22h.38m
  easylist-chat: 130-0, 1d.22h.38m
  easylist-notifications: 2633-102, 1d.22h.38m
  fanboy-cookiemonster: 47750-230, 1d.22h.38m
  fanboy-social: 16106-10, 1d.22h.38m
  ublock-annoyances: 5293-80, 1d.22h.38m
 default:
  user-filters: 8-0, never
  easylist: 68304-62, 1d.22h.38m
  easyprivacy: 33339-244, 1d.22h.38m
  plowe-0: 3723-1075, 1d.22h.38m
  ublock-badware: 7560-144, 1d.22h.38m
  ublock-filters: 33904-354, 1d.22h.38m
  ublock-privacy: 429-7, 1d.22h.38m
  ublock-quick-fixes: 321-25, 25m
  ublock-unbreak: 2085-41, 1d.22h.38m
  urlhaus-1: 6440-0, 22h.34m
filterset (user): [array of 8 redacted]
trustedset:
 added: [array of 13 redacted]
switchRuleset:
 added: [array of 4 redacted]
userSettings:
 advancedUserEnabled: true
 cloudStorageEnabled: true
 suspendUntilListsAreLoaded: true
hiddenSettings:
 autoUpdatePeriod: 1
supportStats:
 allReadyAfter: 2111 ms (selfie)
 maxAssetCacheWait: 564 ms
popupPanel:
 blocked: 12
 network:
  medium.com: 6
  cloudflareinsights.com: 1
  datadoghq.com: 1
  google.com: 2
  googletagmanager.com: 1
  youtube.com: 1

[stephenhawk8054]

@gorhill This banner can be hidden by setting local storage item to "2023-07-22T08:10:04.697Z". Could there be any ways to convert $currentDate$ to this format?

This filter works for me

medium.com##+js(trusted-set-local-storage-item, 'lo-non-moc-membership-upsell|dismissed-at', '"2023-07-22T08:10:04.697Z"')

but it would need constant updates to the date

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Normal cosmetic filters can be used but they cause quite big flicker (due to medium.com random classes)

[gorhill]

I will add $currentISODate$.

[stephenhawk8054]

@gorhill Looks like the site needs to put the date inside "". Is it possible to put date values ($now$, $currentDate$, $currentISODate$) inside quotations?

If it complicates the code, then I think it's fine to keep as-is.

[gorhill]

Is it possible to put date values ($now$, $currentDate$, $currentISODate$) inside quotations?

Doing this potentially breaks other cases using these variables, i.e. other sites may not expect quotes. The reason this site might need quotes is because it's serializing through JSON, so a better solution would be to maybe offer a serialization type using optional extra parameters:

medium.com##+js(trusted-set-local-storage-item, 'lo-non-moc-membership-upsell|dismissed-at', $currentISODate$, serialize, json)

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cc @ameshkov to have his toughts on this

[stephenhawk8054]

I see. That's indeed a better approach.

[stephenhawk8054]

I didn't realize the same issue was declined already: #18854 and it's indeed self-promotion so I'm gonna remove the filters