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uBlock Origin 1.41

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by vanilla_nut »

Does anybody know if there's a way to donate to gorhill/uBO development? I looked through the entire README and I don't think there's any link to send $ (just a "contribute to translation" link -- what a brilliant crowdsourcing solution!).

Does gorhill just do this for free because he's an amazing human being, or am I missing where I can buy him a coffee?

Been trying to make a more conscious effort to donate to meaningful causes this year, and I have to say uBO is one of the strongest forces for good on the internet I know.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#22

Post by quesera »

geoffeg wrote: post #9

Does anyone know of a way to run uBlock Origin as an HTTP(s) proxy? I'd really like to be able to provide uBlock Origin style functionality to mobile and other browsers on my network that can't easily run uBlock. Historically privoxy could do some of what uBlock does, but development on privoxy seems to have declined...

Is Privoxy development velocity the best metric?

Once the framework is in place, the interesting action is in filter configuration, right?

https://www.privoxy.org/ says latest release is about two months ago.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#23

Post by Chabsff »

vdfs wrote: post #18
geoffeg wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have pi-hole, and while DNS filtering does eliminate a majority of annoyances on the web, there's still a large amount that I need uBlock for.

DNS filtering is the only option outside the browser because of SSL

That's not necessarily true. SSL/TLS does not prevent all MITM, it prevents unwanted MITM.

To be fair, I don't think you can install certificates on a Chromecast for example, so it might not be practically feasible for all devices, but a blanket "SSL makes that impossible" is not correct.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#24

Post by pritambaral »

haunter wrote: post #10

uBlock Origin + ungoogled-chromium [1] is what I use daily. And I don't how to appreciate people who are working on these projects 1, https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Head's up for anyone going down this route: uBlock Origin is going to be gimped when Chrom{e,ium} switches exclusively to Manifest V3.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#25

Post by ravenstine »

shantara wrote: post #8

>uBO works best on Firefox Not a fan of the recent Firefox changes, but alone makes me keep it as the default browser

Same. I'm sad to say that Mozilla really lost its way, but Firefox is still the most libre browser I know of, thus I will continue to use it until it becomes otherwise.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#26

Post by favourable »

vanilla_nut wrote: post #21

Does anybody know if there's a way to donate to gorhill/uBO development? I looked through the entire README and I don't think there's any link to send $ (just a "contribute to translation" link -- what a brilliant crowdsourcing solution!). Does gorhill just do this for free because he's an amazing human being, or am I missing where I can buy him a coffee? Been trying to make a more conscious effort to donate to meani…

Yeah they really need a Ko-Fi[0] or Patreon[1] link in the README IMHO.

But that said, looks like they don't want donations[2]

> 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 lists are everything. This can't be emphasized enough.

[0] https://ko-fi.com/

[1] https://www.patreon.com/

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-...

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#27

Post by fourseventy »

pritambaral wrote: post #24
haunter wrote: post #10

uBlock Origin + ungoogled-chromium [1] is what I use daily. And I don't how to appreciate people who are working on these projects 1, https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Head's up for anyone going down this route: uBlock Origin is going to be gimped when Chrom{e,ium} switches exclusively to Manifest V3.

Whats Manifest V3?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by ziml77 »

favourable wrote: post #11
mikece wrote: post #2

This is always the first addon/extension I add to a browse; installing uBlock is like "sudo apt update && sudo apt update -y" on a freshly installed system -- you're asking for trouble if you don't secure things as soon as possible.

Indeed. I'm no stranger to creating new browser profiles for different things, and the first thing I do when setting up a new profile (in Firefox) is to install uBo. I have it turned off in one profile for sites that break when using it. For some reason, some e-commerce stores don't work with it, because of KYC BS and having them flagging you as suspicious because you're using an AD-blocker. That I can tolerate thoug…

I turn it off when I'm buying from a site because I've had cases where the blocking interferes with the checkout. In one case recently, when I forgot to disable it, the transaction half went through. I was charged but the order was stuck pending payment and it required me contacting their support team to manually override that.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by JohnTHaller »

vanilla_nut wrote: post #21

Does anybody know if there's a way to donate to gorhill/uBO development? I looked through the entire README and I don't think there's any link to send $ (just a "contribute to translation" link -- what a brilliant crowdsourcing solution!). Does gorhill just do this for free because he's an amazing human being, or am I missing where I can buy him a coffee? Been trying to make a more conscious effort to donate to meani…

I recall him stating he didn't want to take donations because he didn't want the chance of money coming in from someone that could influence the decisions of the project (see AdBlock Plus).

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by ihuman »

favourable wrote: post #26
vanilla_nut wrote: post #21

Does anybody know if there's a way to donate to gorhill/uBO development? I looked through the entire README and I don't think there's any link to send $ (just a "contribute to translation" link -- what a brilliant crowdsourcing solution!). Does gorhill just do this for free because he's an amazing human being, or am I missing where I can buy him a coffee? Been trying to make a more conscious effort to donate to meani…

Yeah they really need a Ko-Fi[0] or Patreon[1] link in the README IMHO. But that said, looks like they don't want donations[2] > 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 (n…

The README also says they don't want donations

> Free. Open source. For users by users. No donations sought.

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