Scriptlets remove-node-text.js and trusted-replace-node-text.js destroy DOM elements

[Torbins]

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• The issue is not present after disabling uBO in the browser.
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I tried to reproduce the issue when...

• uBO is the only extension.
• uBO uses default lists and settings.
• using a new, unmodified browser profile.

Description

For example we have part of HTML:
<p><span class="regin0.xxxx">Please contact us at [email protected] if you see this on another site.</span><a name="L6"></a> 「Hey, Jig, Shiasha-san. Good work」<span class="eloun0.xxxx">Several dragons looked at the human girl in amazement.</span></p>
And we have following rule:
example.com##+js(replace-node-text,p,「,- )

A specific URL where the issue occurs.

https://www.foxteller.com/novel/643/33/the-witch-and-the-mercenary/033

Steps to Reproduce

1. Add rule above to the list of custom rules
2. Reload web page

Expected behavior

HTML becomes like this:
<p><span class="regin0.xxxx">Please contact us at [email protected] if you see this on another site.</span><a name="L6"></a> - Hey, Jig, Shiasha-san. Good work」<span class="eloun0.xxxx">Several dragons looked at the human girl in amazement.</span></p>

Actual behavior

HTML becomes like this:
<p>Please contact us at [email protected] if you see this on another site. - Hey, Jig, Shiasha-san. Good work」Several dragons looked at the human girl in amazement.</p>

uBO version

1.61.2

Browser name and version

Firefox 133.0.3

Operating System and version

Windows 11 24H2

[krystian3w]

Seems fine for remove-node-text, p will be empty.

IDK possibly repair for trusted-replace-node-text, fails on #text as node hook (even I tried use loop).

[gwarser]

Try using #text as node name.

(Cannot test on your example - racing.)

[gorhill]

This is the expected behavior: replace the textContent of an element (<p> in your case) is going to remove everything under p and replace with a #text node in which instances of 「 are replaced with -.

Additionally, the text on that page is added dynamically, whereas trusted-replace-node-text is active only until the DOMContentLoaded is received.

In any case, even the following filter accomplishes nothing on my side:

foxteller.com##+js(replace-node-text, #text, 「, -, stay, 1, quitAfter, 30000)

How did you make it work at all? I can't even cause the breakage.

[krystian3w]

Seems still fails.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8e4e5388-bfde-4ec5-b0f1-e29648aacd22

[gorhill]

Seems still fails

Ok it's because trusted-replace-note-text doesn't look deep into mutations, only superficially. The primary purpose of trusted-replace-node-text was not to comprehensively replace text on a web page, this is at most a side effect.

For the purpose of replacing text on a web page, it's best to add a procedural cosmetic replace-text() operator -- but this would require concept of trusted source for procedural cosmetic filters, and there is no framework for this at this point, and this would be unrelated to the issue here.

Closing as wontfix, the trusted-replace-node-text scriptlet works as expected, according to its intended limitations. If uBO's filter list maintainers think those limitations should be revised according to real world cases, I will reconsider.