Ah, lovely.
In case you were a uBlock Origin user who had rules that they've built up over the years, you can now no longer access these rules, because you can't access the uBlock Origin GUI anymore. For your safety.
And no, even from a terminal, those rules aren't stored anywhere in a human-readable form. You'll need an [extraction script](https://gist.github.com/wdormann/e93d2dc7eb9d35d513b9a7b30b43be75 ). If you run this on your uBlock Origin directory (e.g. ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local\ Extension\ Settings/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm/), you'll get a user-filters.txt file that has your rules. Which you can import into My filters in uBlock Origin on a browser that doesn't have contempt for you. (e.g. Firefox)
I pretty much hate computers.
Will Dormann
npub12x…vzxeq
2026-08-07 14:30:50 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…tjl4
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