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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.
I'm curious about how sponsorblock works - how does it prevent malicious users from submitting fake segments to skip?
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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.
Woah I did not know that was a thing. I am now for sure going to build my own Ambilight
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.
>uBO works best on Firefox Not a fan of the recent Firefox changes, but alone makes me keep it as the default browser
But some time in the last half years I started having lots of new tabs. Right now I am at 60. 3 of which are interesting. So every day I have to spend about one minute closing tabs because firefox becomes sluggish (old lowhrange phone).
Ublock origin is the only thing keeping me on Firefox, but to be honest I have started looking at other browsers because this is driving me insane.
I have recently switched to AdGuard as a system-wide blocker on all my devices since uBlock will be unusable on Chromium browsers due to them blocking MV2 extensions in 2023.
While still a good product, the UI is nowhere near the quality of uBlock Origin, nor are the options which are available to the user.
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.
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”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.
This is a discussion forum, not an academic debate. The core of my statement is that Firefox has qualities that make me want to continue using it despite how I disagree with how Mozilla operates. I don't owe anyone actionable criticism or evidence to backup my sentiment. > 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…
Not much compared to for-profit executive sallaries, but still way more than is needed to live a comfortable life.
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Head's up for anyone going down this route: uBlock Origin is going to be gimped when Chrom{e,ium} switches exclusively to Manifest V3.
I think it’s very much still an “if” not a “when”. Chrome will stop being a lot of peoples’ recommended browser if they do this, and could well end up losing them a lot of users.
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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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I donate to oisd.nl -- the wife approved Pi-Hole DNS list that can also work with uBo.
Unfortunately, the list doesn't seem to be compatible with piHole (at least >5.0), and in searching around there's some beef between pi-hole folks and the oisd maintainer. I won't perpetuate it by posting links, but it's sad to see for sure.