>uBO works best on Firefox Not a fan of the recent Firefox changes, but alone makes me keep it as the default browser
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#72What 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.
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Re: uBlock Origin 1.41
#73It is a pity that Apple decides to castrate Safari's API in such a way that uBlock Origin won't function.
It is the best AdBlock out there in my opinion. Works especially well for certain dirty pages with nasty ads.
Re: uBlock Origin 1.41
#74What 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.
Oh yes, the problem are the ads.
Even subtitle ads break your focus from the content, give bad incentives, unfair leverage, etc.
If ads were not here, most junk content in the internet would not exist because people would not pay 20 cents to see it. They pay to see it with ads, because it's a price they don't pay consciously, nor can they assess the consequences clearly.
I'm for the total and complete ban of ads. A content can't exist without it? Ask people to pay. If they don't, it means it didn't have real value. Let it die.
Worse, ads create a huge asymmetry of power in the favor of those who already have it. If you can throw a lot of money to ads, you can gain on the competition. Local small shops can't do that, so ads promotes way more coca cola than organic carrots.
Besides, the people publishing ads have an agenda that almost never align with the customers interest. People say there are ads they want to see, but the reality is that even those ads are not trying to make you more knowledgeable. They try to sell you something.
We have thousands of communities of experts in stuff, testers, consumers, bloggers, than can inform you. You don't need ads to know about something.
Society as a whole would be better without it.
Newspaper would be more objective, streets would be more beautiful, content would be more qualitative.
What about all those youtubers that couldn't exist without ads ?
99.99999% of them are crap. The youtube frontpage is a trash can.
A minority is good, but in the new adsless society, some of them would survive in a different way. Some would not, but the benefits are more important. Just like the US didn't keep thralls because "think of the economy".
Finally, the ads lead to websites to promote engagement at all cost, which fuels fake news, outrages, and tribalism on social medias. Ads are a burden to the human species.
And I say that... as a person who gets a lot of revenue from ads.
Re: uBlock Origin 1.41
#75This 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.
I was setting up a workplace computer last week. It was shocking to see all the scams circulating in the adds. Especially the download scams on download pages. Next time I will change the order and install uBlock the first thing after the browser.
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#76Ever since I heard about AdGuard Home I never looked back. I have a raspberry pi 4 serving all dns requests from every electronic at my house for 215 days of uptime now without any issues. Browsing the web seems faster and cleaner ever since.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
And every time I learn more about gorhill, I respect him more. Forget looking up to the Bezoses and Zucks of the world as role models, or even the Gates. This is someone who writes software that improves the quality of life of tens of millions of people across the planet, maybe even hundreds. I haven't heard a bad thing about him yet.
> This is someone who writes software that improves the quality of life of tens of millions of people across the planet, maybe even hundreds.
The sad thing is that it doesn't have to be this way, if ads weren't so terrible or intrusive gorhill could be working on something else instead. I'm sure people will point out the upside of browser ads but I speculate that it's a net (!) negative.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
”Lost its way“ is non-actionable and unsubstantiated criticism that reflects poorly on the person making such statement. What specifically do you disagree with? I actually feel the opposite way. Finally after years of ignoring macOS Firefox feels more at home and the UI changes make it much more pleasant to use.
"reflects poorly on the person making such statement" is non-actionable and unsubstantiated criticism.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
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/com…
Yep. I don't use uBO just for ads, I have tons of custom cosmetic filters to block all the god damn always-on-top video players, popups, fullscreen fade outs, annoying sidebars, non-ad animations, fonts, etc.
Right ! Its a total disaster !
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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/com…
You can have uBO for Firefox mobile.