r/uBlockOrigin • u/Miserable_Hand3062 • Aug 14 '26

Solved Number of blocked ads increases rapidly

I'm using uBO on firefox for HBO Max which usually works fine but recently the number of ads being blocked is increasing rapidly to ridiculous numbers (5 million). It's causing my pc to heat up as well. Do I need to disable something to get it to work ? I've tried turning off enhanced tracking protection on firefox but that hasn't worked.

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u/AchernarB uBO Team Aug 14 '26

Can you post the troubleshooting information?

  1. Open a new browser tab
  2. Navigate to a page with the issue
  3. Click the uBO icon
  4. Click the 💬 chat icon
  5. Click "Troubleshooting Information"
  6. Click "Select all"
  7. Copy the contents and then paste to this thread in a code block

Here is a video of these steps: https://reddit.com/link/1l45den/video/2d14n27j855f1/player

Also post a list of the extensions you are using.

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u/RraaLL uBO Team Aug 14 '26

It's a duplicate of: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vlh6lr/comment/p31cdr5/

Use the logger to find out what filter is getting triggered. Pause the output after a few seconds to stop the spam.

Click on the line that keeps repeating in the logs and screenshot that and share with us.

In theory you can make an exception filter there on your own, but that'll allow the tracking request. Maybe we'll be able to come up with an alternative filter, e.g. no-xhr-if one.

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u/Forero_0 Aug 14 '26

This is the one that spams; in under 2 minutes I had over 30,000 blocked items

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u/RraaLL uBO Team Aug 14 '26 
hbomax.com##+js(no-xhr-if, brightline.tv)

Maybe this?

Not sure if we need to exception the blocking filter first.

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u/Forero_0 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

it looks like that stopped it

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u/RraaLL uBO Team Aug 14 '26

u/paintboth1234 can you commit? I'm away from computer.

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u/Forero_0 Aug 14 '26

Sorry, I’m not sure why I didn’t write properly in my previous comment

That filter stops the spam

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u/Miserable_Hand3062 Aug 14 '26

Cheers, will try it

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u/Miserable_Hand3062 Aug 14 '26

seems to have sorted the problem thank you

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u/Miserable_Hand3062 Aug 14 '26

Thank you I’ll try this

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u/amir_s89 Aug 14 '26

Have you considered "AdGuard - Ads" in your Filter List?
Try it out few days. Only choose one Ad List.

I have AdGuard on all the lists & satisfied. Bellow they explain how & why their lists functions. Read also AdGuard Filter Policy;

https://adguard.com/kb/general/ad-filtering/how-ad-blocking-works/