adminSettings and filterLists

[spec1re]

Since some time the "filterLists" and "selectedFilterLists" doesn't apply anymore like before, but eg. "netWhitelist" still does.

Same like here #2419 but the new format doesn't work with Chrome.

• Chrome Version 57.0.2987.98 (64-bit)
• uBlock Origin v1.11.2

Any idea what could it be?

[gorhill]

There is no possible answer if you don't provide the actual value of adminSettings.

[spec1re]

Sorry :)

• Chrome Version 57.0.2987.98 (64-bit)
• uBlock Origin v1.11.2
• Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\3rdparty\extensions\cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm\policy

	{"userSettings":{"autoUpdate":true,"externalLists":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list/master/filterlist.txt\nhttps://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-turkish.txt\n","webrtcIPAddressHidden":true},"filterLists":{"assets/user/filters.txt":{"group":"default","off":false,"entryCount":0,"entryUsedCount":0},"assets/ublock/experimental.txt":{"title":"uBlock filters – Experimental","group":"default","off":true,"supportURL":"https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Experimental-filters","instructionURL":"https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Experimental-filters","supportName":"github.com"},"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list/master/filterlist.txt":{"title":"Block-EU-Cookie-Shit-List","group":"custom","external":true,"off":false,"entryCount":1136,"entryUsedCount":390},"https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-turkish.txt":{"title":"","group":"custom","external":true,"entryCount":838,"entryUsedCount":750},"assets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt":{"title":"EasyList","group":"ads","homeURL":"https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt","supportURL":"https://forums.lanik.us/","off":false,"entryCount":69785,"entryUsedCount":69676},"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylistgermany.txt":{"off":false,"title":"DEU: EasyList Germany","group":"regions","lang":"de","supportURL":"https://forums.lanik.us/viewforum.php?f=90","entryCount":9691,"entryUsedCount":9688},"assets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt":{"title":"EasyPrivacy","group":"privacy","homeURL":"https://easylist.to/easylist/easyprivacy.txt","supportURL":"https://forums.lanik.us/","off":false,"entryCount":12260,"entryUsedCount":12206},"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-annoyance.txt":{"off":false,"title":"Fanboy’s Annoyance List","group":"social","supportURL":"https://forums.lanik.us/","entryCount":24958,"entryUsedCount":10006},"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-social.txt":{"off":false,"title":"Fanboy’s Social Blocking List","group":"social","supportURL":"https://forums.lanik.us/","entryCount":14707,"entryUsedCount":14684},"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malvertising.txt":{"off":false,"title":"Malvertising filter list by Disconnect","group":"malware","entryCount":5553,"entryUsedCount":384},"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malware.txt":{"off":false,"title":"Malware filter list by Disconnect","group":"malware","entryCount":2817,"entryUsedCount":137},"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt":{"off":false,"title":"Basic tracking list by Disconnect","group":"privacy","entryCount":34,"entryUsedCount":29},"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/antiadblockfilters.txt":{"off":false,"title":"Adblock Warning Removal List","group":"ads","supportURL":"https://forums.lanik.us/","entryCount":301,"entryUsedCount":297},"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamja/Prebake/master/obtrusive.txt":{"off":false,"title":"EU: Prebake - Filter Obtrusive Cookie Notices","group":"regions","supportURL":"https://github.com/liamja/Prebake","entryCount":862,"entryUsedCount":859},"http://malwaredomains.lehigh.edu/files/immortal_domains.txt":{"off":false,"title":"Malware domains (long-lived)","group":"malware","supportURL":"http://www.malwaredomains.com/","entryCount":3205,"entryUsedCount":2414},"assets/thirdparties/mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains":{"title":"Malware domains","group":"malware","homeURL":"https://mirror.cedia.org.ec/malwaredomains/justdomains","supportURL":"http://www.malwaredomains.com/","off":false,"entryCount":13215,"entryUsedCount":13176},"assets/thirdparties/pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist":{"title":"Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list","group":"multipurpose","homeURL":"https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=1&mimetype=plaintext","supportURL":"https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/","off":false,"entryCount":2374,"entryUsedCount":2373},"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dawsey21/Lists/master/adblock-list.txt":{"off":false,"title":"Spam404","group":"malware","supportURL":"http://www.spam404.com/","entryCount":5640,"entryUsedCount":5639},"https://www.fanboy.co.nz/enhancedstats.txt":{"off":false,"title":"Fanboy’s Enhanced Tracking List","group":"privacy","supportURL":"https://forums.lanik.us/","entryCount":1106,"entryUsedCount":1106},"https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-antifacebook.txt":{"off":false,"title":"Anti-ThirdpartySocial (see warning inside list)","group":"social","supportURL":"https://forums.lanik.us/","entryCount":65,"entryUsedCount":65},"https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/chromium/filters/13.txt":{"off":false,"title":"TUR: Adguard Turkish Filter","group":"regions","lang":"tr","supportURL":"http://forum.adguard.com/forumdisplay.php?51-Filter-Rules","entryCount":2501,"entryUsedCount":2488},"assets/thirdparties/www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt":{"title":"Malware Domain List","group":"malware","homeURL":"https://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt","off":false,"entryCount":1218,"entryUsedCount":1218}},"hiddenSettingsString":"ignoreRedirectFilters false\nignoreScriptInjectFilters false\npopupFontSize unset\nsuspendTabsUntilReady false","netWhitelist":"about-scheme\nbehind-the-scene\nchrome-extension-scheme\nchrome-scheme"}

and same problem with:

• Firefox 52.0 (32-Bit)
• uBlock Origin v1.11.2

	// uBlock Origin 
	defaultPref("extensions.ublock0.adminSettings", "{\"userSettings\":{\"autoUpdate\":true,\"externalLists\":\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list/master/filterlist.txt\\nhttps://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-turkish.txt\\n\",\"webrtcIPAddressHidden\":true},\"filterLists\":{\"assets/user/filters.txt\":{\"group\":\"default\",\"off\":false,\"entryCount\":8,\"entryUsedCount\":8},\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list/master/filterlist.txt\":{\"title\":\"Block-EU-Cookie-Shit-List\",\"group\":\"custom\",\"external\":true,\"off\":false,\"entryCount\":1136,\"entryUsedCount\":390},\"assets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt\":{\"title\":\"EasyList\",\"group\":\"ads\",\"homeURL\":\"https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt\",\"supportURL\":\"https://forums.lanik.us/\",\"off\":false,\"entryCount\":69713,\"entryUsedCount\":69604},\"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylistgermany.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"DEU: EasyList Germany\",\"group\":\"regions\",\"lang\":\"de\",\"supportURL\":\"https://forums.lanik.us/viewforum.php?f=90\",\"entryCount\":9579,\"entryUsedCount\":9576},\"assets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt\":{\"title\":\"EasyPrivacy\",\"group\":\"privacy\",\"homeURL\":\"https://easylist.to/easylist/easyprivacy.txt\",\"supportURL\":\"https://forums.lanik.us/\",\"off\":false,\"entryCount\":12243,\"entryUsedCount\":12189},\"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-annoyance.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"Fanboy’s Annoyance List\",\"group\":\"social\",\"supportURL\":\"https://forums.lanik.us/\",\"entryCount\":24936,\"entryUsedCount\":9995},\"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-social.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"Fanboy’s Social Blocking List\",\"group\":\"social\",\"supportURL\":\"https://forums.lanik.us/\",\"entryCount\":14696,\"entryUsedCount\":14673},\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malvertising.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"Malvertising filter list by Disconnect\",\"group\":\"malware\",\"entryCount\":5563,\"entryUsedCount\":381},\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malware.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"Malware filter list by Disconnect\",\"group\":\"malware\",\"entryCount\":2827,\"entryUsedCount\":143},\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"Basic tracking list by Disconnect\",\"group\":\"privacy\",\"entryCount\":34,\"entryUsedCount\":29},\"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/antiadblockfilters.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"Adblock Warning Removal List\",\"group\":\"ads\",\"supportURL\":\"https://forums.lanik.us/\",\"entryCount\":297,\"entryUsedCount\":294},\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamja/Prebake/master/obtrusive.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"EU: Prebake - Filter Obtrusive Cookie Notices\",\"group\":\"regions\",\"supportURL\":\"https://github.com/liamja/Prebake\",\"entryCount\":862,\"entryUsedCount\":859},\"http://malwaredomains.lehigh.edu/files/immortal_domains.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"Malware domains (long-lived)\",\"group\":\"malware\",\"supportURL\":\"http://www.malwaredomains.com/\",\"entryCount\":3205,\"entryUsedCount\":2414},\"assets/thirdparties/mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains\":{\"title\":\"Malware domains\",\"group\":\"malware\",\"homeURL\":\"https://mirror.cedia.org.ec/malwaredomains/justdomains\",\"supportURL\":\"http://www.malwaredomains.com/\",\"off\":false,\"entryCount\":12412,\"entryUsedCount\":12373},\"assets/thirdparties/pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist\":{\"title\":\"Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list\",\"group\":\"multipurpose\",\"homeURL\":\"https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=1&mimetype=plaintext\",\"supportURL\":\"https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/\",\"off\":false,\"entryCount\":2367,\"entryUsedCount\":2366},\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dawsey21/Lists/master/adblock-list.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"Spam404\",\"group\":\"malware\",\"supportURL\":\"http://www.spam404.com/\",\"entryCount\":5640,\"entryUsedCount\":5639},\"https://www.fanboy.co.nz/enhancedstats.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"Fanboy’s Enhanced Tracking List\",\"group\":\"privacy\",\"supportURL\":\"https://forums.lanik.us/\",\"entryCount\":1105,\"entryUsedCount\":1105},\"https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-antifacebook.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"Anti-ThirdpartySocial (see warning inside list)\",\"group\":\"social\",\"supportURL\":\"https://forums.lanik.us/\",\"entryCount\":65,\"entryUsedCount\":65},\"https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/chromium/filters/13.txt\":{\"off\":false,\"title\":\"TUR: Adguard Turkish Filter\",\"group\":\"regions\",\"lang\":\"tr\",\"supportURL\":\"http://forum.adguard.com/forumdisplay.php?51-Filter-Rules\",\"entryCount\":2501,\"entryUsedCount\":2488},\"assets/thirdparties/www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt\":{\"title\":\"Malware Domain List\",\"group\":\"malware\",\"homeURL\":\"https://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt\",\"off\":false,\"entryCount\":1250,\"entryUsedCount\":1250}},\"hiddenSettingsString\":\"ignoreRedirectFilters false\\nignoreScriptInjectFilters false\\npopupFontSize unset\\nsuspendTabsUntilReady false\",\"netWhitelist\":\"\about-scheme\\nbehind-the-scene\\nchrome-extension-scheme\\nchrome-scheme\\nloopconversation.about-scheme\\nopera-scheme\"}");

It just gets ignored by uBlock.

[gorhill]

This was working when I tested following the refactoring, but broke it when I decided to add forward compatibility to be sure to not inconvenience users in case they would want to install an older version after installing 1.11.0.

[spec1re]

So it is fixed in the next release? Sorry just asking.

Thank you.

[gorhill]

Fixed in 1.11.4, which was just approved on AMO, and pending review in Chrome store.

[spec1re]

Sorry but I can't get this working anymore, no matter what I try, none of the filterLists get the checkbox selected.

Reverting back to uBlock Origin v1.10.6 and the extensions.ublock0.adminSettings is working as expected again.

• Firefox 52.0 (32-Bit)
• uBlock Origin v1.10.6

Can you please provide me an example of a working extensions.ublock0.adminSettings line for uBlock Origin v1.11.4?

[gorhill]

Can you please provide me an example of a working

I used yours and it worked.

[spec1re]

Negative here, tested with Firefox 52.0, Chrome 57 and v1.11.4, no luck.

[gorhill]

You edited the comment in which you provided your original, working adminSettings value. What is there now doesn't look right.

[spec1re]

Yes I just deleted the white listings, but its 100% the same.

[gorhill]

Just use what you pasted originally in your comment above, I do not have a copy on my side.

[spec1re]

Okay, let me do some checks again, will be reporting back soon.

[spec1re]

Okay here we go, all fine now just needed to adjust "filterLists" and "selectedFilterLists" a bit to make the check boxes active. Here the working lines:

• Chrome Version 57.0.2987.98 (64-bit)
• uBlock Origin v1.11.4
• Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\3rdparty\extensions\cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm\policy\adminSettings

{"userSettings":{"autoUpdate":true,"externalLists":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list/master/filterlist.txt\nhttps://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-turkish.txt\n","webrtcIPAddressHidden":true}, "filterLists":{"https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-turkish.txt":{"off":false},"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list/master/filterlist.txt":{"off":false},"https://adguard.com/filter-rules.html?id=13":{"off":false},"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamja/Prebake/master/obtrusive.txt":{"off":false},"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylistgermany.txt":{"off":false},"assets/thirdparties/pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist":{"off":false},"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-social.txt":{"off":false},"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-annoyance.txt":{"off":false},"https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-antifacebook.txt":{"off":false},"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dawsey21/Lists/master/adblock-list.txt":{"off":false},"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malware.txt":{"off":false},"http://malwaredomains.lehigh.edu/files/immortal_domains.txt":{"off":false},"assets/thirdparties/mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains":{"off":false},"assets/thirdparties/www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt":{"off":false},"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malvertising.txt":{"off":false},"https://www.fanboy.co.nz/enhancedstats.txt":{"off":false},"assets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt":{"off":false},"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt":{"off":false},"assets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt":{"off":false},"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/antiadblockfilters.txt":{"off":false},"assets/ublock/unbreak.txt":{"off":false},"assets/ublock/privacy.txt":{"off":false},"assets/ublock/badware.txt":{"off":false},"assets/ublock/filters.txt":{"off":false},"assets/user/filters.txt":{"off":false},"assets/ublock/experimental.txt":{"off":true}},"hiddenSettingsString":"ignoreRedirectFilters false\nignoreScriptInjectFilters false\npopupFontSize unset\nsuspendTabsUntilReady false"}

• Firefox 52.0 (32-Bit)
• uBlock Origin v1.11.4
• mozilla.cfg

// uBlock Origin 
defaultPref("extensions.ublock0.adminSettings", "{\"userSettings\":{\"autoUpdate\":true,\"externalLists\":\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list/master/filterlist.txt\\nhttps://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-turkish.txt\\n\",\"webrtcIPAddressHidden\":true},\"filterLists\":{\"https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-turkish.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list/master/filterlist.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"https://adguard.com/filter-rules.html?id=13\":{\"off\":false},\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamja/Prebake/master/obtrusive.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylistgermany.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"assets/thirdparties/pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist\":{\"off\":false},\"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-social.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-annoyance.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-antifacebook.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dawsey21/Lists/master/adblock-list.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malware.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"http://malwaredomains.lehigh.edu/files/immortal_domains.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"assets/thirdparties/mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains\":{\"off\":false},\"assets/thirdparties/www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malvertising.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"https://www.fanboy.co.nz/enhancedstats.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"assets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"assets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/antiadblockfilters.txt\":{\"off\":false},	\"assets/ublock/unbreak.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"assets/ublock/privacy.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"assets/ublock/badware.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"assets/ublock/filters.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"assets/user/filters.txt\":{\"off\":false},\"assets/ublock/experimental.txt\":{\"off\":true}},\"hiddenSettingsString\":\"ignoreRedirectFilters false\\nignoreScriptInjectFilters false\\npopupFontSize unset\\nsuspendTabsUntilReady false\");

The "selectedFilterLists" did not work for...

[gorhill]

Remove filterLists, it's obsolete. You did not have it in the adminSettings value you provided first.

[spec1re]

And use "selectedFilterLists" instead?

[gorhill]

Yes.

I just tried it and it worked.

[spec1re]

Okay I try...

[spec1re]

Its working now!

Thank you very much for your patience. :o)

[gorhill]

One of the complication is that on Linux, the JSON string has to be used itself as a JSON value, which means double-encoding, and this is difficult to do by hand. I am modifying the online tool to provide two versions for adminSettings value, the plain string, and the JSON encoded one.

[spec1re]

That would be great! 👍