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If you have Android, the easiest way to run uBlock Origin is to install it for mobile Firefox.
Yes, unfortunately it won't help you if you use any apps that display arbitrary websites in the system webview. E.g. a reddit client.
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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.
Safari + Adguard OR 1blocker OR wipr (it's not even close to ublock origin but it's the best you're gonna get on this damned walled garden) For ioswide adblock: nextdns dns profile is the best you're gonna get as well. With no battery usage as it's just a dns profile.
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...
And the biggest problem is most of sites are already upgraded to https, it needs MITM attack, but lots of applications won't accept any user certificate... (so adguard needs be installed to let those apps bypass its proxy, that's mean, you cannot just host a central proxy server to filter all ssl traffic)
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.
You can right click on individual things in a website's UI and make them go away using the "Block element ..." context menu command added by uBlock.
This is useful for not only getting rid of ads, but anything that distracts you or tricks you into clicking on it.
For instance, in Reddit, if you find yourself accidentally clicking on switching to New Reddit (which annoyingly updates your profile to make that choice stick), you can just block that button.
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.
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.
PSA: If it's a recent-ish LG TV, you can root it and install an ad-free youtube app in just a few clicks. That said, one might be afraid of potential future breakage/maintenance burden from installing homebrew software for a relative. https://rootmy.tv/ https://repo.webosbrew.org/apps/youtube.leanback.v4
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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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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).
couldn't we cap the donations and anonymize it ? maybe find other ways to thank or help gorhill.. his work is too much of a gift