hotukdeals.com: nuisance

[ArchibaldToast]

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URL address of the web page

https://www.hotukdeals.com/

Category

nuisance

Description

Hi,

Could anyone help with creating a custom filter for https://www.hotukdeals.com/ please. I'm looking to block deals from specific retailers, wherever they appear e.g. block all deals from Amazon and Nintendo eShop at https://www.hotukdeals.com/

I'd previously tried this - www.hotukdeals.com##.thread-link.cept-tt:has-text(Amazon):has(.thread) - but it no longer seems to work and didn't work at all for retailers with a space in their name, like 'Nintendo eShop'.

Thanks

Other extensions used

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Configuration

uBlock Origin: 1.61.0
Chromium: 130
filterset (summary):
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 cosmetic: 49731
 scriptlet: 23083
 html: 0
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
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  easylist: 78846-45, now
  easyprivacy: 53271-671, now
  plowe-0: 3557-376, now
  ublock-badware: 11686-19, now
  ublock-filters: 40686-376, now
  ublock-privacy: 1448-24, now
  ublock-quick-fixes: 206-4, now
  ublock-unbreak: 2507-12, now
  urlhaus-1: 20475-0, 26m
filterset (user): [array of 51 redacted]
trustedset:
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userSettings:
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 collapseBlocked: false
hiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats:
 allReadyAfter: 696 ms (selfie)
 maxAssetCacheWait: 229 ms
 cacheBackend: indexedDB
popupPanel:
 blocked: 1
 network:
  fuseplatform.net: 1
 extended:
  ##.ad-label
  ##.ad--center
  ###ad-mrec2
  ##.ad-sticky

[mapx-]

for amazon this filter is working on my end

hotukdeals.com##.thread:has-text(Amazon)

I see no nintendo

[gorhill]

This one does not require procedural cosmetic filters, enforced natively by the browser:

hotukdeals.com##.thread:has([data-t="merchantLink"][href$="=1650"])

---

Never mind, turns out not all "Amazon" links have an href property. I think this one is a bit more narrowed as it looks only for the link text:

hotukdeals.com##.link[data-t="merchantLink"]:has-text(Amazon):upward(.thread)

If you want to target more retailers, you can use a regex instead:

hotukdeals.com##.link[data-t="merchantLink"]:has-text(/Amazon|eBay/):upward(.thread)

[ArchibaldToast]

Thanks. The multiple retailers regex is especially useful.

[ArchibaldToast]

If I may also ask, what are the data-t names that relate to 'user/poster' and the 'item description'? I've trawled through the logger and can't see what these are identified as? Thanks

[gorhill]

Use the browser dev tools => Elements pane to find details about the DOM.