ABP for Safari on macOS blocks its own settings page with *adblock* filter

[petruc]

Environment

macOS 10.12.5
Safari 10.1.1 (12603.2.4)
ABP Safari 1.12.4
Native Safari content blocking disabled.
Filters:
EasyPrivacy+EasyList
Adblock Warning Removal List
Fanboy's Annoyance List
Malware Domains
Spam404
I don't care about cookies
Prebake - Filter Obtrusive Cookie Notices

How to reproduce

1. Add

   *adblock*
   

   as a custom filter.

2. Close and reopen ABP Settings page.

...

Observed behaviour

1. Most of the options in the ABP Settings page vanish. The remaining elements are non-functional.
2. The Settings page is unusable to the point of having to reinstall ABP Safari extension.

Expected behaviour

The ABP Settings page should be exempted from being filtered by ABP itself, and always kept functional.

Other comments

I came across this by naively adding

*adblock*

as custom filter, to remove a "disable your adblocker to see our site" curtain. Many of the DIV elements had that string in ID or NAME. Of course it was a noob move, I should've used proper syntax for the filter. But I was soooo angry at that specific site...

Adding the following custom exception filters:

@@|safari-extension://*^$document
@@||org.adblockplus.adblockplussafari-*

protected the Settings page perfectly, and could even be added as hidden filters in ABD for Safari, but maybe the developers have a better solution for that.

Anyways, thank you for your hard work and wish you all the best!

[hfiguiere]

Also I couldn't find a way to reset this short of removing the extension and reinstalling it.

[sebastian]

I agree, that this is a problem. But this issue existed ever since, and the Safari extension is a low priority for us at the moment. However, if somebody submits a patch, I'm happy to include it in the next release, which we might have soon.