I guess Mozilla add-ons repo is a bit behind? It still shows 1.40.8.
The update has been rejected by the Mozilla team.
What was the issue?
uBlock Origin 1.41
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#152Does 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…
Write him an email and sincerely thank him for the work, and ask if there is any charity he would prefer you donate to.
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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.
It may be the devices not honouring your DNS directives. Sometimes they will still reach out to their own resolvers.
It helps if you have a network perimeter firewall to block unauthorized DNS usage.
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#155I've blocked so many fixed position headers with this thing.
Although tbh I should learn the filter syntax to make them position: absolute instead.
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#156Block 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 (…
The eyedrop (permanently hide element) is great for getting through most cookie walls without accepting anything. The filters (custom rules for hiding stuff) is great for personalizing your browsing. Eliminate scores on Reddit, YouTube video cards containing keywords for stuff you don't want to get spoiled, Tweets types that don't interest you like "Stuff your follows such as "You might like", etc.
Bypass Paywalls is a great extension that does this automatically.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It may be the devices not honouring your DNS directives. Sometimes they will still reach out to their own resolvers. It helps if you have a network perimeter firewall to block unauthorized DNS usage.
I think youtube serves ads from its own domain, as a first party. This makes it harder for a pihole to block. Ublock does it differently, looking at elements etc...a pihole just tries to block dns requests to ad domains, not looking at code that your browser is trying to load.
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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.
>Not sure if ublock can seek inside a youtube video.
I was referring to a hashtag or simply a tag a piece of text that can be spotted and then that type of content skipped.
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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
Yeah, I've done this on my LG C9, works awesome. Apart from SponsorBlock in YT, the most useful thing I've found is the Hyperion sender app. I'm really looking forward to building my DIY Ambilight when the pieces arrive, and it's really nice to automatically capture all output, instead of capturing through HDMI.
SponsorBlock is awesome. I just wish it could automatically “detect” those sections without users input. Something like a neural network to detect if a section is sponsorship.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
On Android TV there's SmartTubeNext that I've installed without root access. It's such a joy to use. It's honestly better than the official Youtube app (it handles multi accounts properly) and even embeds SponsorBlock by default! And it doesn't show the comments, which is another feature as far as I'm concerned.
It also supports logging in multiple accounts and remote play. Thank you for mentioning this!