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Need guidance for a filter I use here on Lemmy; it doesn't block posts if the keyword is at the beginning of the post title (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by 58008@lemmy.world to c/ublockorigin@programming.dev

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Hello friends, I have a filter I use to block posts containing keywords in their titles. The problem is, they won't work if the keyword appears at the very beginning of the post's title. This is the filter:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/\bKeyWord1\b|\bKeyWord2\b|\bKeyWord3/i)

I've tried ^KeyWord, and that doesn't work either. And I'm now at the limits of my knowledge!

Any tips?

Cheers!

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't write ublock filters but I suspect your \b boundary isn't matching for beginning of string.

You could probably do [\b^] which should match either a boundary or beginning of string.

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

[\b^] won't work — I assume you meant something like (\b|^). That shouldn't change anything either though, as \b is explicitly defined to match (^|$).