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Cosmetic filters cannot cause any kind of data-loss, whatever happens on the server is something to report to the site-admin. |
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Report to the external filter list which caused your issue, this has been discussed enough in the other thread. |
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Whatever you think about it, this is not "data loss". If you don't agree with us, feel free to use other tools that satisfy your demands. Stop spamming about this. |
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I was surprised today to find out the uBO + bad rule can result in dataloss. I reported it here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/3686
As that issue was closed - I want to start a discussion about raising awareness of such dangers in general and thinking about mitigation.
I was using https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist in an attempt to block the ai generated google search results.
Today i found out that typing or pasting "openai.com" or "chatgpt.com" in google keep notes, or even editing an order note containing these, would cause the whole note to be deleted. Any further edits of these notes are autosaved so the data is trashed. I believe this behavior might be connected to this commit: laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist@a6668ae
while this specific issue might get fixed by my issue: laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist#186, i want to address the larger issue that a bad custom rule can lead to dataloss.
As far as i am concerned an ad blocker should not be able to cause dataloss.
are uBO users aware of potential dataloss dangers?
is there a list of interactions of rules and websites causing dataloss?
could potentially dangerous rules be detected statically in advance? or dynamically?
could uBO prevent rules that affect elements containing user input?
did uBO try to map out applications which would be susceptible to bad-rule induced dataloss?
can uBO offer better logging to help investigate and recover from such dataloss events?
i think there is a larger discussion around this issue that is worth having.
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