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Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by preommr »

wickedwiesel wrote: post #24
zeta0134 wrote: post #21

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I would absolutely love to, but does the author even accept donations? I just combed through my about page and the Github README and didn't see anything related. I was kinda hoping he had a Patreon. Am I blind, or is it just not there?

He writes in his FAQ [1]: > I don't want the administrative workload coming with donations. I don't want the project to become in need of funding in any way: no dedicated home page + no forum = no cost = no need for funding. I want to be free to move onto something else if ever I get tired working on these projects (no donations = no expectations). > Have a thought for the maintainers of the various lists. These list…

Dude could still do a monthly patreon and cancel it if he didn't want to work on it anymore

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by Klover »

fragebogen wrote: post #60
suyash wrote: post #25

What is a good ad blocker like this for Safari?

uBlock exists also for Safari, however you need to download it through the App Store these days. https://www.ublock.org/safari/

That’s not uBlock Origin, that’s the icky one. I use the AdGuard extension for desktop Safari, and the app for mobile Safari, which use the content blocking feature of Safari itself.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by majewsky »

preommr wrote: post #61
wickedwiesel wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He writes in his FAQ [1]: > I don't want the administrative workload coming with donations. I don't want the project to become in need of funding in any way: no dedicated home page + no forum = no cost = no need for funding. I want to be free to move onto something else if ever I get tired working on these projects (no donations = no expectations). > Have a thought for the maintainers of the various lists. These list…

Dude could still do a monthly patreon and cancel it if he didn't want to work on it anymore

I wouldn't do that if I were him because I don't know how to explain that income to the IRS (or rather, the Finanzamt, since I'm German).

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by kkarakk »

happybuy wrote: post #22
grawlinson wrote: post #14

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Unfortunately, all Safari releases going forward (12 onwards) are removing APIs that allow uBlock Origin to do what it does. Apple are basically neutering _all_ blockers, unfortunately. I don't know if they're planning on filling the void though.

The reason these APIs are being removed are to improve the privacy of users. Apple recommends all adblock extensions now use the content blocking API which is superior from a user privacy perspective. When using the content blocker apis, the extension cannot view or read which web pages are visited. Prior extension APIs had full access to browsing history (which obviously can be easily abused). The content blocker AP…

as usual apple doing weird things that only people deeply invested in their platform will bother learning.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by kkarakk »

DDebbieDDowner wrote: post #46
sysstemlord wrote: post #32

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Since when is uBlock an Anti-Virus? If you benchmark the latest Ferrari against a wooden boat for driving on water you will get the same results as this test.

None of the other browser extensions in the test are Anti-Viruses yet they seem to block fine many of the malware threats Furthermore, what is the purpose of Malvertising filter list by Disconnect​​​​​​​​​, Malware Domain List​​​​​, Malware domains, in uBlock Origin if they can't protect the user from malwares?

can those companies provide free access to their blocking lists they created based on their research? ublock will work just as well if so.comparing paid products to freeware is madness in the malwertising space

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by saagarjha »

sundar4344 wrote: post #59

UBlock Origin is more than an ad-blocker. Some usecases other than being ad-blocker 1. Hide Quora notification icon 2. Hide YouTube notification icon 3. Hide stackoverflow questions you might be interested section(right bottom section) How do you use other than ad-blocker?

It’s really a content blocker, primarily used to blog ads.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by saagarjha »

kkarakk wrote: post #64
happybuy wrote: post #22

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The reason these APIs are being removed are to improve the privacy of users. Apple recommends all adblock extensions now use the content blocking API which is superior from a user privacy perspective. When using the content blocker apis, the extension cannot view or read which web pages are visited. Prior extension APIs had full access to browsing history (which obviously can be easily abused). The content blocker AP…

as usual apple doing weird things that only people deeply invested in their platform will bother learning.

While Apple has been guilty of this, but I think in this case this has actually improved their platform. I’d really like for the API they are proposing become a web standard, but unfortunately I doubt it would ever do so…

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by plemer »

majewsky wrote: post #63
preommr wrote: post #61

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Dude could still do a monthly patreon and cancel it if he didn't want to work on it anymore

I wouldn't do that if I were him because I don't know how to explain that income to the IRS (or rather, the Finanzamt, since I'm German).

Is that income uniquely difficult to explain?

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by gorhill »

pietroglyph wrote: post #7
hornetblack wrote: post #4

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Results on mine: Benchmarking, the higher ops/sec the better. Firefox 63.0 on Windows 10 64-bit. Test 100 needles against 16 dictionaries of hostnames - Set-based x 1,443 ops/sec ±3.46% (54 runs sampled) - Regex-based x 4,093 ops/sec ±1.18% (25 runs sampled) - Trie-based (1st-gen) x 8,993 ops/sec ±1.92% (59 runs sampled) - Trie-based JS (2nd-gen) x 7,923 ops/sec ±2.81% (44 runs sampled) - Trie-based WASM (2nd-gen) x…

Interestingly, my numbers are completely different relative to each other when compared with yours... I wonder how the number of runs is determined and if this affects the results. Benchmarking, the higher ops/sec the better. Firefox 63.0 on Fedora 64-bit. Test 100 needles against 16 dictionaries of hostnames - Set-based x 1,707 ops/sec ±1.93% (60 runs sampled) - Regex-based x 4,078 ops/sec ±0.88% (25 runs sampled) -…

For some reasons, I found that Firefox's results for WASM are always better after a first run -- i.e. clicking "Lookup" again without reloading the page. I don't know what is the explanation of this.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by kekebo »

lorenzhs wrote: post #50
karrotwaltz wrote: post #34

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I've got this list in my favs, I think it was posted on HN a while ago: https://gist.github.com/0XDE57/fbd302cef7693e62c769 I had some problems with sendRefererHeader, so it can definitely break some websites

See, there are some good ideas in that list, but then it gets to disabling Safe Browsing without any explanation. There's a lot of false information around about what Safe Browsing sends to whom, and you should make sure you know what you're doing when disabling it. Also, the DNS cache size explanation is a bit backwards. "Number of cached DNS entries. Lower number = More requests but less data stored." Where do you…

Cached DNS queries / speed to resolve can indeed be exploited, as shown here: https://www.chaoswebs.net/timebleed/

There are efforts to prevent this in the future but for now disabling or limiting DNS cache seems the only viable option.

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