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Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by diabeetusman »

kazinator wrote: post #86

Block Element is a quite a useful feature of uBlock Origin. 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 (…

I actually found this useful the other day when I was shopping online on a bugged website. After I applied a filter, the loading spinner wouldn't go away, even after it had finished loading the filtered results.

I blocked the loading spinner element and the website worked perfectly after that.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#132

Post by xigoi »

boring_twenties wrote: post #66
nix0n wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.blokada.fem.fdroid

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#133

Post by dazdaz »

lazlee wrote: post #95
lazlee wrote: post #50

I find it funny that when HN loaded for me, the post below this one was "How I changed my mind about advertising." Not here - ads begone. Wuthout UblockO the net is ugly and insufferable.

Now if only somebody made a decent ad blocker for phones. I haven't been able to find one (android) that works decently.

On a rooted phone, AdAway works fine. https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by aceazzameen »

lazlee wrote: post #95
lazlee wrote: post #50

I find it funny that when HN loaded for me, the post below this one was "How I changed my mind about advertising." Not here - ads begone. Wuthout UblockO the net is ugly and insufferable.

Now if only somebody made a decent ad blocker for phones. I haven't been able to find one (android) that works decently.

I've been using Firefox + uBO on Android. But I also run NetGuard from F-Droid as a local VPN ad blocker. I used to run Blokada, which does the same thing and is good too. But I like the more granular control over each app in NetGuard.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#135

Post by tfigment »

rightbyte wrote: post #80
rawoke083600 wrote: post #60

Earlier 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…

You can have uBO for Firefox mobile.

Or use firefox focus which is faster ime and while not as aggressive in filtering as uBO does a good job and saves nothing beyond current session (cookies, ...)

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#136

Post by mrguyorama »

cptskippy wrote: post #105
mrguyorama wrote: post #101

This person is aggressively against being rewarded for their selfless desire to make the internet functional, nicer, quieter, and more about the users. How many of you here instead spend your 40 hours a week making 6 digit salaries at a company that wants nothing more than to own the attention of everyone who connects to a network? How many of you have actively worked to create systems and technology to invade the sc…

> This person is aggressively against being rewarded Back when uB was transferred to a different maintainer and uBO came about, I recall reading something about this. It isn't so much that they don't want reward or recognition but rather the do not want the obligation that comes with it. Back when I maintained a couple Add-ons for Firefox there was a constant external pressure from users to fix/improve/maintain/devel…

The reason for their desire to not be rewarded is orthogonal to their virtue in spending their limited time and effort and resources in making the internet a better place, which IMO is virtuous.

That's what I was trying to get at. What legacy are you leaving this world? Are you truly leaving it a better place than you were given?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by kazinator »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #116
kazinator wrote: post #86

Block Element is a quite a useful feature of uBlock Origin. 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 (…

Yep I use this to block the stack exchange top block thing on the desktop site. I get sick of dismissing it all the time.

Sorry, what exactly is this "top block thing", on which StackExchange site?

I didn't manually block anything from these sites, but don't see any annoying block near the top.

Well, the main "stackexchange.com" has a dialog-box-like element titled "StackExchange Q&A Communities are Different. Here's how:", with a bunch of content, and a [Learn More] button. You can close this with the X in the top right corner. Is this it?

I guess it doesn't bother me because I've never found that site useful to begin with.

The dismissible block is not actually at the top; it's below the "search all sites" toolbar, and below that block there isn't any particularly useful content, just "hot questions" and a sidebar of "featured sites". Basically nothing other than that toolbar is useful, and that toolbar could just be a tiny browser extension or something. So if I dismiss that box, no useful content moves up to occupy that space. It could bother me a bit if I were interested in browsing the hot questions, rather than search.

Maybe DuckDuckGo has a shortcut for it? Hey, yes it does: !se

If you use DDG, you have no need to visit stackexchange.com just to search all the SE sites; just !se in front of your search terms.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by monkmartinez »

mkesper wrote: post #125
sherr wrote: post #52

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.

Set up something like a pi-hole.

Unfortunately, Pi-hole does not work for Youtube ads... At least, I have been unable to find a reliable way to implement it. My house would be much better for it, but I can not seem to find a solution.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by WheatM »

cptskippy wrote: post #105
mrguyorama wrote: post #101

This person is aggressively against being rewarded for their selfless desire to make the internet functional, nicer, quieter, and more about the users. How many of you here instead spend your 40 hours a week making 6 digit salaries at a company that wants nothing more than to own the attention of everyone who connects to a network? How many of you have actively worked to create systems and technology to invade the sc…

> This person is aggressively against being rewarded Back when uB was transferred to a different maintainer and uBO came about, I recall reading something about this. It isn't so much that they don't want reward or recognition but rather the do not want the obligation that comes with it. Back when I maintained a couple Add-ons for Firefox there was a constant external pressure from users to fix/improve/maintain/devel…

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#140

Post by post_break »

mrkramer wrote: post #129
post_break wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sponsor block extension. It's ad blocking extensions the whole way down.

FTC said that creators and influencers on social media services need to put "sponsored", "promoted" or "ad" tag disclosure on brands they are endorsing so it would be possibly for someone to make uBlock Origin filter which blocks such content.

The sponsor block extension is crowd funded, people put where the sponsor message is and it automatically skips it. Not sure if ublock can seek inside a youtube video.
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