Taking a break from Adblock Plus development • Hacker News Board

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Post by nerdponx » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 1:47 PM UTC

gourou wrote: post #9

TekMol wrote: post #6

Most tech people now seem to use uBlock Origin. But I use uMatrix (from the same developer) and I am super happy with it. It took me a minute or so to understand the interface. But then it is super intuitive and exactly the way I would have designed it myself. Since I only allow the hosts that I need, I almost never see advertising. And the web is blazingly fast.

Has it got an easy way to unblock elements? Going through the every request in the logger using uBlock is pretty tedious.

It's rare to enter a filter in rule by hand in uMatrix in the first place, so you just go to the matrix and switch the box from red to green.

I actually just switched from uMatrix back to uBlock Origin, because uBlock makes it easier to block individual JavaScript files, rather than blocking JS wholesale.

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Post by bmn__ » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 1:52 PM UTC

TekMol wrote: post #6

Most tech people now seem to use uBlock Origin. But I use uMatrix (from the same developer) and I am super happy with it. It took me a minute or so to understand the interface. But then it is super intuitive and exactly the way I would have designed it myself. Since I only allow the hosts that I need, I almost never see advertising. And the web is blazingly fast.

The matrix functionality is available in uBlock Origin, no need to install both. Simply enable advanced mode.

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Post by andrepd » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

romanovcode wrote: post #10

Who is even using this anymore? ABP lost all its cred when it took money from ad business. Just use uBlock Origin.

Unfortunately more people are using ABP than uB. The common person googles "adblock", and ABP is usually the first result.

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Post by zerr » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 2:04 PM UTC

TekMol wrote: post #6

Most tech people now seem to use uBlock Origin. But I use uMatrix (from the same developer) and I am super happy with it. It took me a minute or so to understand the interface. But then it is super intuitive and exactly the way I would have designed it myself. Since I only allow the hosts that I need, I almost never see advertising. And the web is blazingly fast.

What about Ghostery?

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Post by votepaunchy » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 2:07 PM UTC

romanovcode wrote: post #10

Who is even using this anymore? ABP lost all its cred when it took money from ad business. Just use uBlock Origin.

> Just use uBlock Origin.

Has there always been a uBlock extension for Safari? That was my last holdout for using ABP. I've now manually installed the downloadable extension but ABP is prominently displayed in Apple's Safari extension app store.

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Post by toyg » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 2:09 PM UTC

andrepd wrote: post #13

romanovcode wrote: post #10

Who is even using this anymore? ABP lost all its cred when it took money from ad business. Just use uBlock Origin.

Unfortunately more people are using ABP than uB. The common person googles "adblock", and ABP is usually the first result.

To be fair, that's because "adblock" basically defined the space. They are entitled to the name recognition, since they built it themselves. It's a bit like WinZip vs 7-Zip.

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Post by Moru » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 2:10 PM UTC

kleptako wrote: post #2

What is even the point of Adblock Plus now? uBlock Origin seems so much better

The point is (as with so many things) money. If I remember right, ABP makes money by allowing "friendly" ads if they get payed for it.

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Post by d3sandoval » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 2:10 PM UTC

zerr wrote: post #14

TekMol wrote: post #6

Most tech people now seem to use uBlock Origin. But I use uMatrix (from the same developer) and I am super happy with it. It took me a minute or so to understand the interface. But then it is super intuitive and exactly the way I would have designed it myself. Since I only allow the hosts that I need, I almost never see advertising. And the web is blazingly fast.

What about Ghostery?

Depends on your opinion of this decision: https://adexchanger.com/data-exchanges/ghostery-sheds-ad-tra...

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Post by Lev1a » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 2:11 PM UTC

zerr wrote: post #14

TekMol wrote: post #6

Most tech people now seem to use uBlock Origin. But I use uMatrix (from the same developer) and I am super happy with it. It took me a minute or so to understand the interface. But then it is super intuitive and exactly the way I would have designed it myself. Since I only allow the hosts that I need, I almost never see advertising. And the web is blazingly fast.

What about Ghostery?

IIRC they have the same problem as ABP, i.e. selling out their users.

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Post by tambre » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 2:15 PM UTC

votepaunchy wrote: post #15

romanovcode wrote: post #10

Who is even using this anymore? ABP lost all its cred when it took money from ad business. Just use uBlock Origin.

> Just use uBlock Origin. Has there always been a uBlock extension for Safari? That was my last holdout for using ABP. I've now manually installed the downloadable extension but ABP is prominently displayed in Apple's Safari extension app store.

The port seems to be in a separate repo until it's considered stable. The development of the port is quite a bit behind and doesn't seem to be actively maintained. I guess no one wants it badly enough to maintain it themself until it's stable.