Simplest way to allow a family of URLs?

[RoxKilly]

FF 41
uBlock.0 1.3.1
Windows 7

I use dynamic filtering with the following rules: * * 1p-script block * * 3p-frame block * * 3p-script block * * inline-script block. When a site requires JS to work, it very often relies on JQuery, most often from a Google CDN. I'd like to find a way to white-list these scripts from all domains. I envision that most of the time, they will not be run, but when I enable 1st-party scripts and these external libraries are called, they will automatically be connected.

The Google hosted JS libraries can be found here. I am particularly interested in allowing the JQuery scripts. They are of the form https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js. Problem is, there are a couple dozens of them for the different versions, so I have a two part question.

1. Is there a way to white-list a regex? eg: ^/http(s)?://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/[\d].[\d].[\d]/jquery.min.js$/

2. If so, would uBlock's performance be faster if I manually entered all such links? in the My Rules tab instead of relying on a regex?

[publicarray]

Some common domains that I have nooped:

* ajax.googleapis.com * noop
* akamaihd.net * noop
* bootstrapcdn.com * noop
* cloudflare.com * noop
* google.com * noop
* gstatic.com * noop
* jquery.com * noop
* jwpcdn.com * noop
* vimeocdn.com * noop
* wp.com * noop
* www.googleapis.com * noop
* youtube-nocookie.com * noop
* youtube.com * noop
* ytimg.com * noop

[RoxKilly]

Thanks. I don't want to open up the whole ajax.googleapis.com subdomain though, just the JQuery scripts.

By the way, doesn't * google.com * noop bother you? This allows all google.com hosted scripts to run unless a static filter stops them. Privacy-wise it makes me a bit uncomfortable. * cloudflare.com * noop would worry me even more because any site can cache its scripts on Cloudflare so I would have no idea what kind of scripts I'm allowing with that rule.

[harshanvn]

If so, would uBlock's performance be faster if I manually entered all such links? in the My Rules tab

I believe plain string are faster..

I don't want to open up the whole ajax.googleapis.com subdomain though

You can use dynamic URL filtering for that. Here is the rule i use..
* https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery script noop

And here are the other global rules i use, in one of the machine -

* http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax script noop
* http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery script noop
* http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap script noop
* https://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax script noop

Edit: Only quirk is that, if the site is requesting the resource from http instead, you would have to create another entry for http as below..
* http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery script noop

Note: I converted almost all my dynamic filtering rules to dynamic URL Filtering. This allows more granular rules, without opening much..

[publicarray]

By the way, doesn't * google.com * noop bother you? This allows any google.com hosted script from to run unless a static filter stops them. Privacy-wise it makes me a bit uncomfortable. * cloudflare.com * noop would worry me even more

You raise a good point but I am probably not as paranoid. I prefer to have more websites that work rather than to add more rules. In other words in this case I prefer convenience over privacy. Another point is that I only nooped them. This means they're falling back to filter lists, which should block the majority of tracking scripts and other bad scripts.
P.S. Based on your comment I have removed cloudflare.com from my dynamic rules. 🎉

[RoxKilly]

@harshanvn that's interesting thanks. I'll try that. It's probably targeted enough even though it doesn't take into account the full URL, so I'd be comfortable with it.

[gorhill]

@harshanvn:

You can use dynamic URL filtering for that. Here is the rule i use..
* https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery script noop

Yes, that is the answer.

[RoxKilly]

Didn't know dynamic filtering looked beyond the domain. That's good news. Is the path case-sensitive? In other words would * https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery script noop match https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/JQUERY

Having just re-read @harshanvn's answer, I realize that this is a dynamic URL filtering rule, not the classic dynamic filtering. Do dynamic URL filters go in the My Rules tab along with the rest? (those that target domains)

[gorhill]

Didn't know dynamic filtering looked beyond the domain

It's more accurately "dynamic URL filtering". See "Overview of uBlock's network filtering engine".

[RoxKilly]

For reference to anyone else who runs into this: here is the page explaining Dynamic URL Filtering in detail.

In the last paragraph of that page, @gorhill calls for a better example of the usefulness of Dynamic URL Filtering's granularity. The problem I ran into is a good case in point. I am not interested in allowing all scripts from ajax.googleapis.com, but JQuery is so common that instead of finding myself noop-ing that domain on site after site, I can create the relevant dynamic URL filters (http and https versions) and be done with it.