🔒 Closed uBlock silently enables Acceptable Ads for everyone

[MhaShziYing]

Few days ago I started seeing ads on ebay. Weird.. confused I blocked the ad manually and forgot about it. The next time I visited ebay, the ad was showing again. I blocked it again. Third time.. Yes, you guessed right, the ad was back. So, I started to investigate why my filter rule was not working.

Few minutes later, the culprit was found:

This rule disables all cosmetic filters for eBay. But where does it come from?

I went to examine my filter lists. And then I went into full WTF mode

Why the **** I have "Acceptable Ads" list enabled?

Hidden change in uBlock
I'm absolutely sure I never added "Acceptable Ads" to my filters. So, my next stop was uBlock site. There is no mention of enabling acceptable ads anywhere. Weird.

Then I checked their Github. And in the middle of innocent changes there was this commit named "You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now."

Yes, this means that the acceptable ads list was silently added and enabled for everyone!

Conclusion
Unfortunately, these days you're getting automatic updates for everything. This means you have to trust software authors to do the right thing. But sometimes they do whatever they want and give a big "**** you all" to their users.

What a shame.

Credit to kao Blog