uBlock Origin 1.41 • Hacker News Board

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by nevitablentropy » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:28 PM UTC

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…

Per the About section [0] on the README:

uBlock Origin's manifesto. Free. Open source. For users by users. No donations sought.

Without the preset lists of filters, this extension is nothing. So if ever you really do want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which were made available to use by all for free.

You can contribute by helping translate uBlock Origin on Crowdin.

[0]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#about

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by pritambaral » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:31 PM UTC

fourseventy wrote: post #27

pritambaral wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by tiffanyh » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:32 PM UTC

iOS availaiblity.

Is there a reason why it's not available on iOS?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by jhickok » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:34 PM UTC

tiffanyh wrote: post #33

iOS availaiblity. Is there a reason why it's not available on iOS?

Apple is the reason.

https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by favourable » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:34 PM UTC

fourseventy wrote: post #27

pritambaral wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> Whats Manifest V3?

In simple terms, it's Google's attempt to stop AD-blockers interfering with their business model.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by qwertyuiop_ » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:34 PM UTC

Chabsff wrote: post #23

vdfs wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

SSL/TLS does not prevent all MITM, it prevents unwanted MITM.

That’s news to me. Can you expand on this ? I always assumed if an API Endpoint for example is served on TLS it’s secure till the termination. No ?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by NelsonMinar » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:36 PM UTC

What a wacky industry we are in. 90% of the websites people like us build are primarily there to show us ads. And then there's this one addon maintained by one guy (and an army of helpers) for free that removes those ads and makes the web more usable again.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by favourable » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:37 PM UTC

ziml77 wrote: post #28

favourable wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah the reason I have a dedicated profile for e-commerce (with uBo not installed) is that e-commerce sometimes use an array of different domains during the checkout process, and you have to whitelist each domain which is bothersome. Best just not using uBo entirely during the process.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by shmerl » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:37 PM UTC

I guess Mozilla add-ons repo is a bit behind? It still shows 1.40.8.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by nicoburns » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:38 PM UTC

qwertyuiop_ wrote: post #36

Chabsff wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

SSL/TLS does not prevent all MITM, it prevents unwanted MITM. That’s news to me. Can you expand on this ? I always assumed if an API Endpoint for example is served on TLS it’s secure till the termination. No ?

You can always choose to install your own root certificates, at which point your browsers will trust any certificates issued by them (which could be your own mitm proxy)