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uBlock Origin 1.41

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by josefx »

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…

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

I am quite sure that kind of nonsense lead to the Origin fork. As far as I understand the old uBlock project was taken over by a contributor who offered to manage user requests but immediately started to look for ways to monetize it and things only went downhill from there.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by sherr »

Thank you Raymond and all others involved with uBlock Origin. It makes the internet bearable for me and other family members.

Every time I use the "YouTube" app on my elderly relatives TV and see how often it is interrupted with adverts I count my blessings that this add-on exists.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by progx »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #37

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.

The problem are not ads. The problem is the huge amount of ads, bigger bigger bigger, animated, with sound, tracking and and and... Nobody has a problem with small decent ads without tracking, but that was not enough for big companies.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#55

Post by abledon »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #37

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.

through sheer scale of reach of the plugin, protecting our mental health from intrusive ads in our subconscious more than work done by 10s of thousands of therapists

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#56

Post by gggfvvff »

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.

The worst thing is that Firefox removes all add-ons if it was not used for a while. One can disable this by setting disableResetPrompt to true, but it's annoying e.g. when you set up an ad blocker on your mom's laptop only to find it being removed a few months later.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by ASalazarMX »

tiffanyh wrote: post #47
jhickok wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple is the reason. https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

So what's the best adblocker on iOS these days? Because in your link above, the alternative recommendations have now either become "un-recommended" or have massive reported performance issues.

Performance and battery life were my worries when I tried ad blocking apps on iOS. So far I've been very happy with Lockdown Privacy, which when active, consumes 5% of the battery. In exchange, I barely see ads even inside apps. If only it had as much filter lists as uBlock Origin.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by TuringNYC »

progx wrote: post #53
NelsonMinar wrote: post #37

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.

The problem are not ads. The problem is the huge amount of ads, bigger bigger bigger, animated, with sound, tracking and and and... Nobody has a problem with small decent ads without tracking, but that was not enough for big companies.

For me the problem is also that you get ads even if you did pay. I pay for WSJ and Bloomberg and still get presented with ads. Whats the point?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by rawoke083600 »

progx wrote: post #53
NelsonMinar wrote: post #37

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.

The problem are not ads. The problem is the huge amount of ads, bigger bigger bigger, animated, with sound, tracking and and and... Nobody has a problem with small decent ads without tracking, but that was not enough for big companies.

I HATE the 'modern-web' it is x10 worse on mobile.

You usually have to wait for the trackers, ads, popups, accept-popups,newsletters signups etc. I basically cant view 60% of the webpages google recommends for me ony android mobile. The other 40% is usually just super thin seo content :/

I just finished reading the Gemini Protocol specs. I really hope something like this takes off and there will be a second 'silo/community' running alongside the modern web.

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