Disable Adblocker per website

[cpucpu]

Very common when websites have anti adblockers. Browser based adblockers can be disabled per offending website in one click. I dont see the option in the GUI. I know it can be disabled by ip, but thats like taking out the seatbelts.

Also, would browser based anti anti(sic) ad blockers work when router based adblocking?

[Lantis]

No it can't.
The reason is that each website will typically pull its ads from several unpredictable servers.
You are of course free to unblock these individually, but they would then be unblocked for all websites using that ad provider.


Your second question would depend on the method of anti ad blocking.
Some methods look for the ads having a size of zero (they didn't load), or look for blocked connections.
And then also on the method of anti anti ad blocking.
But to be honest with you I'm not very familiar with the anti anti methods.

[cpucpu]

Humh, not trying to be wise guy here but it shouldnt be too hard to do somethibg like 'if URL matches X dont run adblocker'...

You wouldnt be disabling ads, but the adblocker itself, per specific url, or full domain.

[Lantis]

Harder than you'd think.

Inspecting URLs is notoriously tricky due to SSL. I'm using dnsmasq to do all the leg work here.
It isn't intended to be a granular, perfect solution. It is designed to get you most of the way there. It may not be the best solution for everyone. Operating at the router level comes with its own set of advantages and disadvantages.
To get a finer level of control at the router level you might consider a transparent proxy.

If you can think of any solutions, please modify the code and create a merge request at https://github.com/lantis1008/gargoyle-plugin-adblock
I'm happy to review any and all code.

[cpucpu]

I had an idea on how dns blocking works, never imaged what I suggested was not feasible. After reading this article on the pihole https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do- ... domain/244 i think there is hope, I'll try whitelist assistant extension as soon as i get my C7. If the extension can get queried domains so should be implemented from within gargoyle, perhaps by typing the URL. I may being doing wrong assumptions again

Too bad i'm not that type of developer.

[Lantis]

Pi-hole operates almost exactly the same as the Gargoyle Adblock plugin.
It has the same limitations, which that article is trying to point out.

However as you said, it does offer a good advice of how to find domains that are being used by a website and thus gives you a list to unblock them.

The Gargoyle Adblock plugin already allows you to query the list of blocked sites and bulk move them to the whitelist.