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uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/ This happened because of the followin

uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/ This happened because of the following filter: ||xn--$document The filter has been found in: IDN Homograph Attack Protection - Complete Blockage

sva_ 7mo ago
What a silly filter, blocking all xn domains
- duskdozer 7mo ago
  Shrug. First time I'd seen this. If it displayed as the original text it would have been clearer.
  - httpsterio 7mo ago
    In this case yes but it's meant as a punycode scam prevention where common Latin alphabet letters are swapped for similar looking alternatives.
  - numpad0 7mo ago
    It would make it hard to spot impostor domains like "news.усомbiнаtor[.]сом" if it was. There's enough inertia for FQDNs to be strictly ASCII and any UTF-8(outside ASCII) in domain names to be felt unnatural for an URL, so most systems default to the raw "Punycode" xn-- scheme for all IDNs.
    - bombcar 7mo ago
      Safari at least shows the proper マリウス.com - I believe it has more complicated heuristics that boil down to "if it looks like a real script, show it, if it looks like some mangled English, show the xn-"
- shusaku 7mo ago
  Kind of an interesting history to this kind of url: https://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/dom/idn.html https://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/dom/idn.html
- zvqcMMV6Zcr 7mo ago
  That whole feature is kind of paragraph 22. No legit/popular site uses it so users don't expect national characters in domain names, so no one actually hosts sites using "xn-" domains.
  - bombcar 7mo ago
    It may be true in the US, but don't lots of domains in Asia use xn-?
lexlambda 7mo ago
This is a filter added by you (or by an overzealous list maintainer), it does not happen by default or even with the provided additional filterlists.
- duskdozer 7mo ago
  Yeah, I remember going on https://filterlists.com/ https://filterlists.com/ one day all mad and just adding a ton because of how many ads and manipulative patterns I was dealing with

sva_ 7mo ago

What a silly filter, blocking all xn domains

duskdozer 7mo ago
Shrug. First time I'd seen this. If it displayed as the original text it would have been clearer.
- httpsterio 7mo ago
  In this case yes but it's meant as a punycode scam prevention where common Latin alphabet letters are swapped for similar looking alternatives.
- numpad0 7mo ago
  It would make it hard to spot impostor domains like "news.усомbiнаtor[.]сом" if it was. There's enough inertia for FQDNs to be strictly ASCII and any UTF-8(outside ASCII) in domain names to be felt unnatural for an URL, so most systems default to the raw "Punycode" xn-- scheme for all IDNs.
  - bombcar 7mo ago
    Safari at least shows the proper マリウス.com - I believe it has more complicated heuristics that boil down to "if it looks like a real script, show it, if it looks like some mangled English, show the xn-"
shusaku 7mo ago
Kind of an interesting history to this kind of url: https://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/dom/idn.html https://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/dom/idn.html
zvqcMMV6Zcr 7mo ago
That whole feature is kind of paragraph 22. No legit/popular site uses it so users don't expect national characters in domain names, so no one actually hosts sites using "xn-" domains.
- bombcar 7mo ago
  It may be true in the US, but don't lots of domains in Asia use xn-?

lexlambda 7mo ago

This is a filter added by you (or by an overzealous list maintainer), it does not happen by default or even with the provided additional filterlists.

duskdozer 7mo ago
Yeah, I remember going on https://filterlists.com/ https://filterlists.com/ one day all mad and just adding a ton because of how many ads and manipulative patterns I was dealing with