URL support for disable-newtab-links

[MasterKia]

Prerequisites

• I verified that this is not a filter issue (MUST be reported at filter issue tracker)
• This is not a support issue or a question
• I performed a cursory search of the issue tracker to avoid opening a duplicate issue
• The issue is not present after wholly disabling uBlock Origin ("uBO") in the browser
• I checked the documentation to understand that the issue I report is not a normal behavior

I tried to reproduce the issue when...

• uBO is the only extension
• uBO with default lists/settings
• using a new, unmodified browser profile

Description

There are filters like these in the main uBlock Filters:

sendvid.com##+js(nowoif, !/^https:\/\/sendvid\.com\/[0-9a-z]+$/)
shiba-faucoin.com##+js(nowoif, /?sponsor)
lineageos18.com##+js(nowoif, bitcoins-update.blogspot.com)
federleqa.icu,imgair.net,imgblaze.net,imgfrost.net,imguiwe.buzz,imgweika.buzz,imgyear.icu,imgzer.net,opalekr.icu,pixsera.net,rtkenale.icu,vestimage.site,imgwia.buzz
##+js(nowoif, !/prcf.fiyar|themes|pixsense|.jpg/)

So it'd be useful to have the same functionality for the disable-newtab-links scriptlet where uBO would check the link href and close the new tab if it matched the href specified by the filter.
The purpose could be the same as the reason why window.open-defuser has a URL parameter.

##+js(nowoif, !/^https:\/\/sendvid\.com\/[0-9a-z]+$/)
<=>
##+js(disable-newtab-links, !/^https:\/\/sendvid\.com\/[0-9a-z]+$/)

A specific URL where the issue occurs

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Steps to Reproduce

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Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

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uBlock Origin version

1.44.2

Browser name and version

Firefox

Operating System and version

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[gwarser]

Real world case?

[gorhill]

A scriptlet cannot close another tab. It can maybe prevent it from being opened but then you might as well use a cosmetic filter to hide the target link.

[MasterKia]

Then the website can detect "hiding" that link.

A scriptlet cannot close another tab.

Thanks.

[gorhill]

the website can detect "hiding" that link.

If you don't want to hide, you can style with pointer-events: none.

[MasterKia]

Unfortunately can/will be detected too, the only thing uncircumventable¹ is disable-newtab-links with a URL parameter.

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1. They can just stop opening in new tabs, in that case they'll lose user interaction since their own site gets closed.

[MasterKia]

AdGuard's close-window scriptlet seems to do the job.

Closes the browser tab immediately using window.close().

[mapx-]

Did you test uBO's https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library#window-close-ifjs- ?

[MasterKia]

That works for most of my need, thanks.
Don't know why I missed it, maybe because of "Can be used to close tabs which have been opened from other applications" in the wiki.

@mapx- Can it also close tabs from example.com to somesite.com?
I tested, it didn't.

[mapx-]

Some real example ?

[gwarser]

AdGuard's close-window scriptlet seems to do the job.

Closes the browser tab immediately using window.close().

AdGuard uses closeByExtension call, uBO does not, and has some quirks with this scriptlet. Check discussion in uBlockOrigin/uAssets#10323

[mapx-]

example:

• go to https://www.farsroid.com/
• see at the bottom ivahid.com
• click it => a new tab is opened

to close it:
working filter
ivahid.com##+js(window-close-if, /^/)

[gorhill]

example

Even better prevent the tab from being opened:

farsroid.com##a[href*="ivahid.com"]:style(pointer-events:none!important)

The whole conversation here is pointless if I am not given a specific (and representative) cases of what we are trying to solve. When I see the problem, then I will consider all sort of solutions.