how to get rid of the snails

[anonymous74100]

I got 9 slow filters. How do I optimize them.

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/ado.js
/ad.js
/banner*.swf
||openx.
||adv.
||adslv.
||promo.
||agk.lv^$third-party
||puls.lv^

[LorenzoC]

It depends what version of ABP you are using.

Stable ABP uses the "old" algorithm which requires "keywords" to be at least 8 characters.
So all the above rules are "wrong" and you can't do anything about it.

Development ABP uses a "new" algorithm which requires "keyowrds" to be 3 characters proceeded and followed by a special characters like */ads/* or ||ads.*

So for the Dev Builds these are "good":
/ado.*
||openx.*
||adv.*
||adslv.*
||promo.*
||agk.*^$third-party
||puls.*

While these are "wrong":
/ad.* (too short)
/banner*. (missing special character at the end of the word)

[Hubird]

It is great that you are making a Latvian Adblock subscription but it would be best if you made it a "supplemental" subscription (only add rules for Latvian sites not already blocked by generic rules in one of the current general English Adblock lists).

[anonymous74100]

I installed the dev build, so I'm down to 2 snails.
What do you mean by:

missing special character at the end of the word

[Hubird]

Also, I would remove:

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/banners/*
/city24/*
/banner*.swf
Above filters are asking for trouble

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*.swf?ClickTag=
Known to cause false positives

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##A[href*="openx."]
##A[href*=".php?bannerID="]
##A[href="/reklama"]
These are also slow filtters and should be avoided

[LorenzoC]

I mean
*/ads/*
is "good", while
*/ads*
if "wrong" because the "keyword" ads is not immediately followed by the required "special character".

Read this:
forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6118

[anonymous74100]

It is great that you are making a Latvian Adblock subscription but it would be best if you made it a "supplemental" subscription (only add rules for Latvian sites not already blocked by generic rules in one of the current general English Adblock lists).

Most Latvian sites have endless foreign tracking scripts from .ee .se .ru and others.

Also, I would remove:

I will consider it, but these are gonna stay:

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/banners/*
/city24/*
##A[href="/reklama"]

[Hubird]

Most Latvian sites have endless foreign tracking scripts from .ee .se .ru and others.

That's fine, normally subscription authors do not worry about the domains the unwanted items originate from only the domain they can be seen on. It is fine to ad rules for ".ee .se .ru" domains if they were seen on Latvian sites.

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/banners/*
/city24/*

Obviously the choice is yours but these are both very generic and could very easily cause false positives. Not every banner is an ad (site heading banners for example).

[anonymous74100]

Not every banner is an ad (site heading banners for example).

OK, I'll remove

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/banners/*

, but I haven't seen a valid use of

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/city24/*

[fanboy]

"city24" doesn't sounds very ad-like to me.