How to reset overlays on page?

[jackhagley]

ISSUE

I create an overlay, but it accidentally hides elements that I want

WORKAROUND

turn off Ad Nauseam on page entirely
This is not ideal

PROPOSED SOLUTION

Button in the dropdown menu "Reset overlays on this page" to return it to pre-blocked state

[mneunomne]

@jackhagley what exactly you mean by overlay? a cosmetic filter?

[jackhagley]

Sorry I mean I have used the right click context menu and blocked element(s). But as a human and a user I have made mistakes and therefore I would like an easy way to reset. Possibly there is a way to do this by removing strings somewhere, but this is not user friendly as some of the naming of these can be extremely opaque.

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[mneunomne]

I'm not sure if there is a good way to implement this. Because sometimes you could have added a cosmetic rule that is not domain-specific. on the uBlock menu you can disable the cosmetic filters on the current page. But I think the best way to reverse this is to simply delete the filters that were added in the "My Filters" tab in the dashboard.

[dhowe]

Seems the simplest answer would be to 'use the uBlock menu and disable the cosmetic filters on the current page', yes ?

If this is a solution, we could then discuss whether it makes sense to add a button...

[mneunomne]

I don't think it makes sense to add a button in this case. to have an UI button knowing there is a current filter in "my filters" matching the current domain string would require some unnecessary computing and de-compiling the 1p-filter just for 1 small feature.

[jackhagley]

I mean – it doesn't seem unnecessary to me, but as I won't be the one doing the work to make it happen, I take your point

[mneunomne]

Sorry @jackhagley I didn't mean it's an unnecessary feature, but an additional computing of filters on every page-load can be costly.

[jackhagley]

No problem at all :)