Adblock Sold to Mystery Company • Hacker News Board

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

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Post by gorhill » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 2:23 PM UTC

dvh wrote: post #24

newscracker wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ABP also introduced an Acceptable Ads option a few years ago that triggered the creation of a fork called AdBlock Edge without that option. Adblock Edge was recently discontinued in favor of uBlock Origin [1], which has a much smaller memory footprint and is faster. [1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

uBlock origin is bigger (js wise) than both AdBlock and AdBlock plus and uBlock, comparison: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/msT3z9naIEkfKFjrj2G3G67moS...

Because uBlock Origin ships with the default filter lists, so that it can work immediately out of the box without having to remotely fetch these filter lists at launch time (updated versions of these lists will be automatically fetched some time after launch).

It's not uncommon that the remote servers hosting the lists fail to respond, which would cause the extension to "malfunction" if this happened after first install -- these lists are key for the proper functioning of the extension (at least in its default out-of-the-box settings). I want the extension to work properly immediately after 1st install.

The size of uBlock Origin as downloaded from AMO or Chrome store is ~1.5 MB (because it's compressed). The compressed package would be ~650 kB without the 3rd-party lists (the content of these lists are not javascript code).

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

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Post by Mahn » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

mfoy_ wrote: post #25

kazinator wrote: post #16

Note that Adblock isn't Adblock Plus: AdBlock is not to be confused with Adblock Plus. The creator of AdBlock claims to have been inspired by the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox, which is itself based on another extension called Adblock. But otherwise AdBlock is unrelated to the other efforts. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock ] No alarm here for ABP users. (Like me).

Okay this is why we have registered trademarks. You're telling me that Adblock, Adblock Plus, and AdBlock are three separate things? What the hell? I just assumed they were all the same thing until now.

I kind of figured that Adblock Pro was a fork, but this is ridiculous.

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

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Post by socratees » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

lorenzhs wrote: post #9

To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

I've been using it for a month now. Can't recommend it more.

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

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Post by iscrewyou » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

And uninstalled.

Are any of the adblockers open source? So, I can take a look at the code, and learn how they work.

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

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Post by anc84 » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 2:31 PM UTC

greatthanks wrote: post #22

kazinator wrote: post #16

Note that Adblock isn't Adblock Plus: AdBlock is not to be confused with Adblock Plus. The creator of AdBlock claims to have been inspired by the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox, which is itself based on another extension called Adblock. But otherwise AdBlock is unrelated to the other efforts. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock ] No alarm here for ABP users. (Like me).

https://acceptableads.org/ ABP is also supporting the independent acceptable ads manifesto.

Ctrl-F "tracking" Ctrl-W

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

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Post by gorhill » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 2:31 PM UTC

EC1 wrote: post #30

lorenzhs wrote: post #9

To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

I haven't the faintest idea how to use it besides just setting it and forgetting it. I tried digging in settings and whitelisting and whatnot but couldn't get it working.

Whitelisting a site is just a matter of pressing the big blue button: it works on a per-site basis.

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

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Post by tempodox » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 2:31 PM UTC

raldi wrote: post #18

This Business Insider article seems to be a thin layer of blogspam around its more-informative source, http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/10/02/trust-us-we-block-ads/

At least this article could be considered news. Other articles there stretch the definition of “news” beyond my tolerance.

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

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Post by tempodox » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 2:33 PM UTC

iscrewyou wrote: post #34

And uninstalled. Are any of the adblockers open source? So, I can take a look at the code, and learn how they work.

Browse GitHub.

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

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Post by tempodox » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 2:34 PM UTC

anc84 wrote: post #35

greatthanks wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://acceptableads.org/ ABP is also supporting the independent acceptable ads manifesto.

Ctrl-F "tracking" Ctrl-W

What, in vim(1) or in the Windoze registry?

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

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Post by EC1 » Fri, Oct 02, 2015, 2:35 PM UTC

gorhill wrote: post #36

EC1 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't the faintest idea how to use it besides just setting it and forgetting it. I tried digging in settings and whitelisting and whatnot but couldn't get it working.

Whitelisting a site is just a matter of pressing the big blue button: it works on a per-site basis.

Yeah that's what I've been doing.