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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.
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.
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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 ?
Adguard Docs on it: https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/https-filtering#how-does-h...
Charles Proxy: https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/proxying/ssl-prox...
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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)
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
From https://ublockorigin.com/ itself: "The uBlock Origin project still specifically refuses donations at this time, and instead advises all of its clients, users and supporters to donate to block list maintainers." As an example, I donate to https://patreon.com/blocklist . Amazingly, right now, there are only 43 patrons.
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If you have Android, the easiest way to run uBlock Origin is to install it for mobile Firefox.
Precisely. On iOS, I've recently been enjoying Hyperweb, which you can add some of uBlock Origin's blocklists to. My experience so far has been great, though I'm aware that their blocking is probably based on Safari's neutered "content blocker" API so it isn't quite as fast or efficient.
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
Because in your link above, the alternative recommendations have now either become "un-recommended" or have massive reported performance issues.
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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.
I have had a few cases where even that didn't work and instead I had to switch to my phone and disconnect from my wifi to ensure that the DNS block list I use isn't the problem.
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).