Re-add wildcard in AllowList

[kenijo]

Prerequisite

Running AdGuard 4.0.141 on Google Chrome 99.0.4844.82

Problem Description

Starting with AdGuard 4.x, the wildcard got removed from the AllowList which prevents easily allow domains and subdomains. This is particularly useful when you want to disable AdGuard on all the internal subdomains of company:

• extranet.mydomain.com
• mail.mydomain.com
• intranet.mydomain.com
• travel.mydomain.com
• etc.

There is also another use case that may be more unique to me as well: I work a lot with randomly generated subdomains and it would help tremendously as well: subXXX.extranet.mydomain.com (where XXX is a random number)

There was a bug opened yesterday that I am referencing here #2016 and turning it into a feature request.

Proposed Solution

Re-enable the wildcard in the AllowList

Alternatives Considered

I am opened to alternative suggestions I haven't though of so far.

[maximtop]

As an alternative you can use user rules https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/how-to-create-your-own-ad-filters#document

@@||example.com^$document — completely disables filtering on all pages at example.com and all subdomains

[kenijo]

Thank you, that is actually very useful. It feels more natural to use an AllowList and a DenyList but I can live with this.

[Doug-inMD]

Any status update on ' * ' wildcard on domains in allow list function returning?

Would also like to see IP address in allow list function returning.

They worked great in Pre 4.0 AdGuard extension on all browsers.

[maximtop]

Not started yet. We are working on integration with tswebextension api. After it is done we begin implementing this issue.

[tastyLT]

Hello, it's been a year or so, is there potentially a fix incoming to allow wildcards for subdomains again with the allowlist (used to be present in the whitelist).

Especially for certain forums and other sites, it's very time consuming to have to manually disable the entire extension on each new subdomain.

[krystian3w]

Doubt it goes to 4.3, use the trick with:

@@||foo*.bar^$document @@||foo.*^$document

In my rules tab/section.

[Doug-inMD]

I was hoping that in addition to the ‘ * ‘ wildcard restoration that IP Address would also return to the allow list that worked beautifully in the 3.x codebase.

Both are preferable to the ‘ gobbley gook ‘ rules which are more complex to roll-out / apply and troubleshoot.

Thanks,

Doug-inMD

From: Κρυςτιαν3ϐ @.> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2023 3:58 PM To: AdguardTeam/AdguardBrowserExtension @.> Cc: Doug-inMD @.>; Comment @.> Subject: Re: [AdguardTeam/AdguardBrowserExtension] Re-add wildcard in AllowList (Issue #2020)

Doubt it goes to 4.3, use the trick with ||foo*.bar^$document.

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