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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 97327" data-source="post: 1039578">Dynamic allow/block rules override static filtering rules -&gt; <a href="https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-precedence" target="_blank">Dynamic filtering: precedence</a>&nbsp; By default dynamic rules only have NOOP (grey) and BLOCK (red). NOOP (no operation) means that you can ignore (disable) dynamic block rules (usually to override a generic dynamic medium mode or hard mode block rule for a specific website). You can do that from the popup-panel of uBO, so there is no need to have this option in the logger.&nbsp;The rules (static block rules and cosmetic hide rules) of the block lists in Filter Lists are merged with the rules you define in My Filters (so there is no precedence). When uBO takes a selfie it optimizes rules (e.g.&nbsp; when you have a block rule of website.* and website.nl the website.nl rule is dropped in the optimized b-tree. When you specify a more generic rule (e.g. ||website.com ) in MyFilters then this seems to overrule two rules out of two different blocklists (e.g. ||website.com/*/ads.js$script and ||website.com/trackingyou$xhr), but in fact the two more detailed rules are dropped, because the one rule you defined in My Filters is more generic.For static rules an allow (@@) overrides a block (||) adding an $important to a block rule does override the allow rule.&nbsp; Because cosmetic rules hide stuff and don&#039;t block stuff, these cosmetic rules are applied after the block rules. My guess is that useless hiding rules (for stuff already blocked) are also dropped when uB0 optimized the rule sets (takes a selfie).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 97327, post: 1039578"] Dynamic allow/block rules override static filtering rules -> [URL='https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-precedence']Dynamic filtering: precedence[/URL] By default dynamic rules only have NOOP (grey) and BLOCK (red). NOOP (no operation) means that you can ignore (disable) dynamic block rules (usually to override a generic dynamic medium mode or hard mode block rule for a specific website). You can do that from the popup-panel of uBO, so there is no need to have this option in the logger. The rules (static block rules and cosmetic hide rules) of the block lists in Filter Lists are merged with the rules you define in My Filters (so there is no precedence). When uBO takes a selfie it optimizes rules (e.g. when you have a block rule of website.* and website.nl the website.nl rule is dropped in the optimized b-tree. When you specify a more generic rule (e.g. ||website.com ) in MyFilters then this seems to overrule two rules out of two different blocklists (e.g. ||website.com/*/ads.js$script and ||website.com/trackingyou$xhr), but in fact the two more detailed rules are dropped, because the one rule you defined in My Filters is more generic. For static rules an allow (@@) overrides a block (||) adding an $important to a block rule does override the allow rule. Because cosmetic rules hide stuff and don't block stuff, these cosmetic rules are applied after the block rules. My guess is that useless hiding rules (for stuff already blocked) are also dropped when uB0 optimized the rule sets (takes a selfie). [/QUOTE]

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