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From the last time booking.com was discussed I picked up some ublock origin filters that make the website more bearable. You can copy and paste them directly i
by PresidentObama 3y ago
From the last time booking.com was discussed I picked up some ublock origin filters that make the website more bearable.
You can copy and paste them directly in your ublock config (ublock options -> My filters)
! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21860328
booking.com##.soldout_property
booking.com##.sr_rooms_left_wrap.only_x_left
booking.com##.lastbooking
booking.com##.sr--x-times-booked
booking.com##.in-high-demand-not-scarce
booking.com##.top_scarcity
booking.com##.hp-rt-just-booked
booking.com##.cheapest_banner_content > *
booking.com##.hp-social_proof
booking.com##.fe_banner__red.fe_banner__w-icon.fe_banner__scale_small.fe_banner
booking.com##.urgency_message_x_people.urgency_message_red
booking.com##.rackrate
booking.com##.urgency_message_red.altHotels_most_recent_booking
booking.com##.fe_banner__w-icon-large.fe_banner__w-icon.fe_banner
booking.com##.smaller-low-av-msg_wrapper
booking.com##.small_warning.wxp-sr-banner.js-wxp-sr-banner
booking.com##.lock-price-banner--no-button.lock-price-banner.bui-u-bleed\@small.bui-alert--large.bui-alert--success.bui-alert
Apart from these, I use some additional ublock filters to block some of their tracking that I am not ok with.
$removeparam=/^(error_url|ac_suggestion_theme_list_length|ac_suggestion_list_length|search_pageview_id|ac_click_type|ac_langcode|ac_position|ss_raw|from_sf|is_ski_area|src|sb_lp|sb|search_selected|srpvid|click_from_logo|ss|ssne|ssne_untouched|b_h4u_keep_filters|aid|label|all_sr_blocks|highlighted_blocks|ucfs|arphpl|hpos|hapos|matching_block_id|from|tpi_r|sr_order|srepoch|sr_pri_blocks|atlas_src|place_types)/,domain=booking.com
$removeparam=/sid=.\*;BBOX/,domain=booking.com
||www.booking.com/c360/v1/track
||www.booking.com/fl/exposed
||booking.com/personalisationinfra/track_behaviour_property
||booking.com/has_seen_review_list
Note that these may result in you receiving some higher prices by removing some referrer info. If you do see that happening, feel free to remove the offending config if the price difference is significant for you. I usually don't bother for differences of < $10 (price displayed on the search page vs the property page).
- oriettaxx 3y agosuper! thank you so much!
- yodsanklai 3y agoCould someone explain a bit how this works?
- LetsGetTechnicl 3y agoThe first set of rules looks for elements in a webpage with a matching ID/class name, and removes them. The second set removes URL parameters, which are used all the time for example in referral links, like on Amazon. It looks a bit like &tracking-id="xxxx" at the end of a link. Those rules will remove those as well, providing a clean link without additional tracking that Booking.com uses to identify where you came from, maybe what ad you clicked on, etc etc
- 867-5309 3y agowhat about .js_sr_persuation_msg from tfa?
- PresidentObama 3y agoHaven't noticed that in my searches yet so haven't needed to add any blocking for that persuasion message. Do you still see it with these filters?
- poutrathor 3y agothey still there, i just tested.
- RaoulP 3y agoThat’s great. Thanks Obama.
- xvello 3y agoThese rules would be a great addition to the low-value content filters we already maintain at https://letsblock.it https://letsblock.it, and I think a lot of users would benefit from having such a template available. I don't use booking.com a lot, but would you be interested in contributing to the project and maintain this template when you find rules to update? Hit me up if you have any question.