nth-of-type(1), nth-of-type(2), etc are common in elements in the page, and thus show up a lot in filters made by element picker, and slow to deal with, some sort of quick key/shortcut/button would be nice.

[HelloIamarandomperson]

A lot of elements that take up/waste space such as where ads would go or other unnecessary popups seem to have nth-of-type(1) these days, this is annoying because either I have to remove each item individually until they stop appearing (And there can be potentially infinite of them) or go into my filter lists, find the filter, modify it so it catches it universally, then go back to the page, then reload the page, and make sure no new ones show up.

Normally when I get rid of these annoyances that don't do that so the default filter is already universal, I can just left click and block, so having to do all that every single time I find a new website and they have something that's in the way it gets really tedious. I'm not sure why but modifying the filter in the preview menu doesn't seem to work so I have to go to ublock's settings page? Not sure if that's supposed to be the case.

Either way, I'd really like some sort of method, that at a press of the button while modifying the filter in element picker mode, it would switch from being only for one element, but for all.
examples of this:
ca.finance.yahoo.com##li.yf-1usaaz9.native-ad.ad-item.stream-item:nth-of-type(13)
ca.finance.yahoo.com##li.yf-1usaaz9.native-ad.ad-item.stream-item:nth-of-type(24)

www.bloomberg.com##div.rightRail_stickySegment__fqwBi:nth-of-type(1)

www.abc15.com##div.sal--wrapper:nth-of-type(4)

www.iflscience.com##div.sidebar-item:nth-of-type(2)

www.huffpost.com##div.advertisement-holder.cli-advertisement.cli:nth-of-type(26)

www.dagens.com##a.facebook.social-link:nth-of-type(2)

www.canva.com##div.NqU4Yg.TSBL8g:nth-of-type(2)

and a bunch others.

Now there's a few ones that do something a bit different, like
www.newsweek.com###dfp-ad-inarticle2-wrapper

Which Idk how to deal with.

but around 95% of html elements that don't just get rid of all at once use the nth-of-type .

[gwarser]

Select better one from the list or use sliders?

[Yuki2718]

If you use so many of :nth-of-type, it probably means you're not yet very well at crafting filters. See how many :nth-of-type is used in uBlock filters.

[HelloIamarandomperson]

If you use so many of :nth-of-type, it probably means you're not yet very well at crafting filters. See how many :nth-of-type is used in uBlock filters.

Of course it isn't used much in UBlock filters, its supposed to represent a single in a list of item. And since there can be as many "wrapper:nth-of-type()" as there is numbers that are allowed, its impractical to remove all individually. So any cosmetic filter on any item using nth-of-type would probably remove nth-of-type so it applies to every single one. The only exception would be if only "Ad.segment:nth-of-type(2) was the problem, and all the other versions were considered fine to keep on the site. I just want a shortcut to make my filter catch all so I don't have to go through all the steps above every single time.

[HelloIamarandomperson]

Just to be clear, I'm using this in a case that isn't professional. I'm talking about custom filters that I use for myself put for websites to get rid of large unnecessary wasted space, such as ad containers/ads and popups.

nth-of-type shows up pretty much in every website, from YouTube to random obscure news sites.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:nth-of-type I mean its built in, its easy to use, of course its common.

I think I was not clear about that above, so I'll edit it to make that more obvious.

[gorhill]

Are you trying to select a better suggestion from the list? (as seen here)

Ultimately, there is most likely always a better filter to be hand-crafted than using nth-of-type, this requires using your browser inspector to find out, for instance :has filters might be better suited for your cases. The best way to learn is to provide the URL of a webpage and tell us what exactly you want to filter out on the page. You will receive answers and over time you can learn from these to craft yourself better filters.