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Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?

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Re: Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?

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Seems like a ublock origin bug. Proposed solution here: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/t2n77i/gmail_...

It's an EasyPrivacy bug? That list is developed with ridiculously cavalier attitude. A few months ago they blocked workers.dev wholesale[1], that is, the entirety of Cloudflare Workers, for some sort of third party request on torrentfreak.com. I was flooded with user reports that day, and several days afterwards thanks to list caching. I was shocked that people who seemingly have no idea of public suffixes are tasked…

It's called a mistake. I see nothing "ridiculously cavalier" about it.

Re: Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?

#54
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an EasyPrivacy bug? That list is developed with ridiculously cavalier attitude. A few months ago they blocked workers.dev wholesale[1], that is, the entirety of Cloudflare Workers, for some sort of third party request on torrentfreak.com. I was flooded with user reports that day, and several days afterwards thanks to list caching. I was shocked that people who seemingly have no idea of public suffixes are tasked…

It's called a mistake. I see nothing "ridiculously cavalier" about it.

There are certain categories of entirely preventable mistakes you don't make. Entirely preventable mistakes that cause reputation damage (see this very thread), lost revenue, a lot of wasted manpower, etc. on others. Blocking (and by definition, breaking to a certain extent) things shouldn't be taken lightly, if you can't do it responsibly don't do it. As someone running a FOSS web service who go out of their way to respect user privacy, I shouldn't be a victim of their crappy practice.
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