UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released • Hacker News Board

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by Tsubasachan » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

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…

Safe browsing would not be bad if it were just a warning. Unfortunately the concept of personal responsibillity is absent from Firefox. I remember a time when you could click "I know what I am doing take me to the site anyway".

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by __s » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 2:30 PM UTC

Good to see wat being used over bringing in emscripten baggage: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/master/src/js/wasm

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by lunchables » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 2:34 PM UTC

neuronic wrote: post #76

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?

4. Hide humongous Wikipedia donation element after having donated.

It is really annoying to get that even after donating. I have never signed up for a wikipedia account (which, now that I think about it, is kind of amazing?) but if I had one, would the donation dialog disappear after donating? Maybe I will sign up to find out.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by jobigoud » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 2:37 PM UTC

cpv wrote: post #77

blue4 wrote: post #71

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How would you explain that you're making money from a project summary of UBlock?

It might depend, on country, but I know that usually you can mention donations as "donations" in your income papers/form. Don't know how it would be for an opensource project. Mentioning something like "open source browser extension uBlock Origin" probably... Interesting how people report their donations, patreons, etc.

Patreon aren't donations, they are recurring income in exchange of something (membership model with specific rewards per tier). In many jurisductions these must be declared differently.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 2:41 PM UTC

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?

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Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by vanderZwan » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 2:41 PM UTC

__s wrote: post #92

Good to see wat being used over bringing in emscripten baggage: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/master/src/js/wasm

I wonder if this wouldn't be a good use-case for Walt. It's close enough to the metal to avoid bringing in unwanted baggage, but still a lot more convenient to write in than the .wat format.

[0] https://github.com/ballercat/walt

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by hartator » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 3:12 PM UTC

nathcd wrote: post #78

One third-party filter list for uBO that I absolutely love is Web Annoyances Ultralist: https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances , for unsticking fixed headers, floating boxes, and elements like that. I also use uBO for injecting my own styles on pages, like adding an absolute timestamp to github: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15743008

Do you have weird bugs with it? I like the idea but I will be worried of having random bugs time to time that are more annoying than the annoyance the list try to remove.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by wgerard » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 3:12 PM UTC

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).

In general, the IRS rarely cares about how you're generating income more that you just remember to pay taxes on it appropriately.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by superkuh » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 3:14 PM UTC

tnsittpsif wrote: post #31

WeAreGoingIn wrote: post #10

The first plugin I install on a freshly installed system with Firefox is uBO. After that I harden the browser by changing stuff in about:config. Chrome has never been an option for us with privacy in focus. The guys behind uBO should get some price or something.

What does your workflow look like in terms of Firefox? What all sites do you visit where UBO doesn't mess it up too much to not have any work done? Just curious. I am on a similar boat but sometimes find some sites to be unreadable after having UBO and some other privacy adjustments through about:config. Thanks!

It's just fine on actual websites. The only things it breaks are the single page app monstrosities (and the occasional crappy newspaper site) that I don't use anyway. It's very rare that I have to disable uBlock for anything.

On the otherhand I also run NoScript temp-whitelist only so all sites that rely on javascript are broken by default for me until I figure out which CDN/etc to temp whitelist.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by kodablah » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 3:16 PM UTC

vanderZwan wrote: post #83

> The original prototype was to develop an idea I had about using jump indices in a TypedArray for quickly matching hostnames (or more generally strings)[1]. Once I had a working, un-optimized prototype, I realized I had ended up with something formally named a "trie": " rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie> , hence the name. I have no idea whether the implementation here or one resembling it has been do…

The idea I had a year ago [0] was to bake the host names inside of WASM with hardcoded character lookups. You can build WASM from inside JS easily enough, or in other ways, and just ship hostnames.wasm with the product. Maybe I should revisit the idea with benchmarks.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/68