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Posted: **Wed May 17, 2017 8:03 pm**

Hi, I'm trying to create a list and want to get a syntax right but cannot for the life of me. Filter experts please help. For example,

I want to match with:

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https://www.google.com/bla/AD.PNG
http://ads.google.com/bla/AD.PNG
https://google.ca/bla/AD.PNG
https://adsbygoogle.com/bla/AD.PNG

And so forth. There is an endless list of TLDs that can exist so I'm not interested in typing out:

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||google.com
||google.ca

I also don't mind a slight amount of false positives but not excessive of course. Anyway the best I can come up with was:

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google*AD.PNG

It works but don't think it's the best rule possible. I couldn't figure out how to use the | to specify ends with whilst having other regexp within the rule. Obviously I want to be as specific as possible to make it efficient.

Thank you

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2017 8:55 pm**

add

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/ad.png|

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2017 10:36 pm**

Hi thank you for the response but it doesn't handle the "contains" part of my requirement. That rule will block anything ending with "ad.png" but does not require that the domain contains a "google" in it.

Posted: **Thu May 18, 2017 2:33 am**

I want to be as specific as possible to make it efficient.

From the good (more specific) to the bad (can cause fp's) ...

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||www.google.com/bla/AD.PNG
||ads.google.com/bla/AD.PNG
||google.ca/bla/AD.PNG
||adsbygoogle.com/bla/AD.PNG

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||google.com/bla/AD.PNG|
||google.ca/bla/AD.PNG|
||adsbygoogle.com/bla/AD.PNG|

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||google.com^*/AD.PNG|
||google.ca^*/AD.PNG|
||adsbygoogle.com^*/AD.PNG|

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||google.*/bla/AD.PNG|
||adsbygoogle.com/bla/AD.PNG|

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||google.*/AD.PNG|
||adsbygoogle.com/bla/AD.PNG|

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||google.*/AD.PNG|
||adsbygoogle.*/AD.PNG|

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google.*/bla/AD.PNG|

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google.*/AD.PNG|

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google*/AD.PNG|

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google*AD.PNG

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Posted: **Thu May 18, 2017 9:05 pm**

Thank you kind sir. Is there a reason this wouldn't work?

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google*/AD.PNG|

Edit: I mean to say

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||google*/AD.PNG|

Has anyone built a simple online tester that I can use, it would save me some development time.

Thank you

Posted: **Thu May 18, 2017 9:25 pm**

adbob wrote:Is there a reason this wouldn't work?
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||google*/AD.PNG|

Will work but block also :

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http://googlemaps.com/help/ad.png
http://google.wikipedia.org/images/ad.png
http://google.msn.com/autopromo/ad.png
http://www.googletips.com.us/ad.png
http://anydomain.google/ad.png

adbob wrote:Has anyone built a simple online tester that I can use, it would save me some development time.

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http://htmledit.squarefree.com/
http://codemagic.gr/
http://liveweave.com/
http://jsbin.com/?html,output
https://jsfiddle.net/
http://www.cssdesk.com/
http://plnkr.co/edit/
http://dabblet.com/

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