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Re:µBlock for Firefox by gorhill on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @08:20AM (#8916774)
> It is often blocking the false positives

It's the filter lists. Use the same filter lists with any other blockers which support ABP-filter syntax, and you will get the same result.

> named one of their assets file with social media names like "twitter/facebook/etc", it blocks the file right away

I have removed Fanboy's Social Blocking list from the pre-selected lists since a while now.[1]

I have to say that I had assumed -- wrongly obviously -- that all users knew that what is blocked or not depends completely on what filter lists are selected. So in your case it would have been a matter of un-selecting Fanboy's Social Blocking list.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/ce04053ae3054ff287a...

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Re:µBlock for Firefox by maxerickson on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @09:00AM (#8916922)
I wonder what would happen if you defaulted to 0 rules active, with a huge mention in as many places as possible that rules needed to be configured (and perhaps a short list of recommendations).

I expect you would get more complaints, saying it was stupid and didn't work. But it would be interesting to see the outcome.

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Re:µBlock for Firefox by tombh on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @10:54AM (#8917485)
Didn't realise I could do that. Thanks for mentioning :)
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