UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released • Hacker News Board

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by nurettin » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 3:58 PM UTC

koheripbal wrote: post #104

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.

As a smb sysadmin for a GSuite based company, I've forced it as an extension to Chrome, so whenever any employee logs into Chrome, it automatically adds it.

curious, is this your job description "smb sysadmin"? sounds awfully specific for a job.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by nathcd » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 4:10 PM UTC

hartator wrote: post #97

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.

I've never had any issues with it. (At least that I'm aware of - I block lots of stuff by default with uMatrix, so I usually assume breakage is due to that.)

In case you're worried that it'll catch incorrect elements via generic selectors or the like, the list is almost entirely site-specific selectors (see [1]). The (much smaller) list of generic selectors can be found at [2].

[1] https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances/blob/maste...

[2] https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances/blob/maste...

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by LeonM » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 4:10 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.

This.

The wikipedia page is completely broken on mobile devices during the fundraiser. (Text in the popup is so large that it becomes impossible to hit the close button).

I have donated to wikipedia for the past 5 years, and will continue to do so. But the fundraiser banner is just terrible, and persists after you donated.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by elcomet » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 4:12 PM UTC

Tsubasachan wrote: post #87

preommr wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The maintainer of Ublock Origin does not want to make money from this. He does not want Ublock to turn into Adblock Plus. If there is no money involved the project cannot be bribed by ad tech. The only acceptable ads are the ones the user white lists.

The point is to make money from the users, not from advertising companies, which is the opposite of adblock. He could still refuse ads by ad tech, I don't see how donations by users would force him.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by dawnerd » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 4:22 PM UTC

atombender wrote: post #27

suyash wrote: post #25

What is a good ad blocker like this for Safari?

I use 1Blocker. It exists for both macOS and iOS. It uses Safari's native content blocking API, so it's supposedly fast. As far as I know, the developer is not engaged in any shady dealings with ad companies. The only downside is that it's not free.

The Dev did something shady on iOS by releasing a second version just because he split up the lists.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by kotajacob » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 4:29 PM UTC

edoceo wrote: post #15

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.

You can (and should) give them money if you find value. Do it, feels good.

I'm not sure who you have been giving money to, but Gorhill notoriously does not accept donations as he does not want this project to have money be a goal what-so-ever and does not want to feel like he needs to work on ublock origin. That said he strongly encourages donating to the ublock origin lists as without them ubo would be nothing.

See here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-...

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by Twirrim » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 4:34 PM UTC

I'm a sucker for random benchmarks, and seeing there was a benchmark against the hostname-lookup stuff, I took a quick shot (2015 MacBook Pro, running High Sierra)

Anyone know why regex performance on Safari is so diabolically bad?

    Safari 12.0.1 on OS X 10.13.6.
    
    Test 100 needles against 16 dictionaries of hostnames
      -                 Set-based x 3,149 ops/sec ±0.75% (59 runs sampled)
      -               Regex-based x 281 ops/sec ±0.78% (61 runs sampled)
      -      Trie-based (1st-gen) x 14,118 ops/sec ±1.66% (66 runs sampled)
      -   Trie-based JS (2nd-gen) x 12,349 ops/sec ±0.58% (61 runs sampled)


    Chrome 70.0.3538.110 on OS X 10.13.6 64-bit.

    Test 100 needles against 16 dictionaries of hostnames
      -                 Set-based x 3,376 ops/sec ±1.95% (61 runs sampled)
      -               Regex-based x 4,492 ops/sec ±1.66% (27 runs sampled)
      -      Trie-based (1st-gen) x 9,431 ops/sec ±0.69% (51 runs sampled)
      -   Trie-based JS (2nd-gen) x 8,627 ops/sec ±0.63% (47 runs sampled)
      - Trie-based WASM (2nd-gen) x 12,169 ops/sec ±0.58% (64 runs sampled)
    Done.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by casefields » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 4:35 PM UTC

lloeki wrote: post #110

lunchables wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

At the very least for me it didn't last time I donated: the donation seems to be completely untied to your account.

Reminder: Wikipedia has Cancer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost...

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by wnevets » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 4:37 PM UTC

the most important browser extension

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by xhruso00 » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 4:38 PM UTC

hornetblack wrote: post #4

adonese wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they attached a benchmark, https://raw.githack.com/gorhill/uBlock/master/docs/tests/hns...

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…

  Benchmarking, the higher ops/sec the better.
  Safari 11.1.2 on OS X 10.12.6.

  Create dictionaries
  -Set-based x 1,393 ops/sec ±0.85% (60 runs sampled)
  -Regex-based x 1,798 ops/sec ±0.75% (61 runs sampled)
  -Trie-based (1st-gen) x 419 ops/sec ±1.35% (61 runs sampled)
  -Trie-based (2nd-gen) x 986 ops/sec ±0.77% (63 runs sampled)
  Done.