slant.co

[ghost]

URL(s) where the issue occurs

https://www.slant.co/topics/5335/~alternatives-to-github-for-open-source-projects#1

Describe the issue

Buttons "Free/Paid" have event listener with "mousedown" button.

Normal click generate badly redirection:

d = `http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=${f.env.SKIM_LINKS_ID}&url=${s}&sref=${o}`, e.currentTarget.href = d), "false" === f.env.USE_AI_URLS && !p.getAttribute("data-no-lustre-popup")) return _.delay(() => new i({
    utmSource: f.view.utmSource,
    utmMedium: f.view.utmMedium,
    utmCampaign: f.view.utmCampaign
}), 1e3)
}
}, d = function(e) {
    return _.defer(function() {
        var t;
        if (t = e.dataset.href) return e.href = t
    })
},

Screenshot(s)

Versions

• Browser/version: Firefox 81
• uBlock Origin version: uBO 1.29.2

Settings

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Notes

Maybe possible kill redrection? If no maybe needed is allow something like that:

@@||go.redirectingat.com/?*www.slant.co*$doc
@@||go.skimresources.com/?*www.slant.co*$doc

because both blocked by HOSTS Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list.

[okiehsch]

You get redirected to the strict block page.
You can get to your destination domain https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Strict-blocking#ability-to-parse-the-strict-blocked-url without issue as far as I can see.

[ghost]

So use tab button and enter button, when redirect no exist.

Mousedown event fail when use keyboard to open links, maybe touch screen monitor is good workaround, but who sell me for free?

[okiehsch]

I don't understand what you want to tell me.
If someone has a working filter to disable the redirection without exception filters we will add them.
My comment was meant to clarify that the blocked page you see is by design.

[uBlock-user]

test slant.co##+js(ra, target|rel, .GetItHereButton-Price)

[ghost]

No works.

[mapx-]

We could badfilter such filters

||redirectingat.com^$badfilter
||skimresources.com^$badfilter

[okiehsch]

Why? It's by design behaviour.

[uBlock-user]

slant.co##+js(ra, target|rel, a[itemprop="url"][data-href]) works for me.

[okiehsch]

Does not work on my end. Tried with Chromium and Firefox.

[mapx-]

slant.co##+js(ra, target|rel, a[itemprop="url"][data-href]) works for me.

does not work, strict blocking again

[mapx-]

Why? It's by design behaviour.

I mean skimresources seems legit stuff, nothing malicious

[uBlock-user]

Race condition perhaps, user could just right click on the button and open in a new tab.

[lain566]

Something like this might help too
uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues#760

[okiehsch]

"Redirections.skimresources.com
If you've landed on this page, you may be wondering exactly what it's all about. We're Skimlinks — a service that helps online publishers earn money."

Don't we always strict block such services to make the user aware that they have clicked a tracking link?
@gorhill

[okiehsch]

slant.co##+js(aeld) works but, well that's a little bit broad.

[uBlock-user]

slant.co##+js(aeld, mousedown) a bit less broad ?

[okiehsch]

Yes much better but that could still break stuff.

[gorhill]

Don't we always strict block such services to make the user aware that they have clicked a tracking link?

Yes, these hostnames are in Peter Lowe's and I rather not second guess why they are there, this is the kind of stuff we want to enforce, and especially in the current case it reveals the tracking.

It's just fine to not fix this case, bringing forth the redirection to the user attention is by-design, and when redirection occurs, users are free to bypass the redirection using the information given to them in the document-blocked page through the URL-parsing feature.

To me, all work as expected. If people find the strict-blocking inconvenient, then they have the choice to ignore it or they can create their own exception filters as OP suggest -- we are not going to apply someone preference in how to deal with this to all other users.