I goofed up my Tumblr dashboard with uBlock Origin. Help?

February 2, 2023 2:28 PM

I was trying to remove a single element from the Tumblr toolbar using uBlock Origin, and managed to delete all of the tools. Help?

I access Tumblr through my laptop web browser about 99% of the time (too small on my iPhone and I'm mostly on my laptop anyway). Recently, there's been an annoying icon for the store with the word "NEW!" on it in the top toolbar on the right. I saw a post about using uBlock Origin to remove that one icon and the word "NEW". I... clearly did it wrong. Now ALL of the tools are gone [image].

I've opened up uBlock Origin and I can see a list of the things it's blocking on Tumblr [image], but for the life of me I can't see how to undo it.

All help greatly appreciated.

posted by tzikeh to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Best answer: I blocked the New myself, and my list reads :
www.tumblr.com##.O42NY

Replace your 2nd line by mine and click on "Apply changes" (it will turn blue once you've modified something). That should do the trick. If it doesn't, delete everything in the list, apply changes, and try again.
posted by snakeling at 2:36 PM on February 2, 2023

You should be able to just select and use backspace to delete that line of text, then click "apply changes".
posted by BungaDunga at 2:44 PM on February 2, 2023

Response by poster: SNAKELING! Thank you! I learned a new thing today.
posted by tzikeh at 4:20 PM on February 2, 2023

FWIW, the "NEW" thing is gone for me now on desktop, there's just like these little sparkles, much less obtrusive and doesn't ping me as a "notification, must pay attention" thing.
posted by yasaman at 4:42 PM on February 2, 2023