I wonder how the post manifest v3 world will look like and how much it'll affect uBlock Origin on Chromium based browsers. Even now, several features, such as CNAME uncloaking, happen only on Firefox.
uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
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Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
#42I prefer Ad Nauseum ( https://adnauseam.io/ ) because I don't want to just block the ads I want to ruin the profile ad companies have on me by having all the ads clicked as well.
Hah it'd be even funnier if it was able to use their "report" functions to report the ads as the spam they are.
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#43If major browsers were 100% user-centric they would've built ad-blocking into the browser. Maybe make it opt-in, but it should be there as a built-in feature.
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#44I prefer Ad Nauseum ( https://adnauseam.io/ ) because I don't want to just block the ads I want to ruin the profile ad companies have on me by having all the ads clicked as well.
I have always assumed our future fascist overlords will use the curated ad profiles to bootstrap a social credit system. So instead of clicking on any ad I need one that only clicks on regime supporting, pro-social, good citizen ads.
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#45I think it's only a matter of time until adblock is legally banned. The current situation, where the vast majority of the internet relies solely on ads and an increasing number of people use adblock year over year is unsustainable. The system can support a certain number of free riders (people who consume the product but don't contribute back in ad eyeballs), but at a certain point the math will no longer work. Event…
So far, adblockers have won in court every time. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32903235 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43838308 https://torrentfreak.com/adblocking-does-not-constitute-copy...
Yes, they would have to create new laws to ban adblockers. With the justification that those laws are necessary to save most of the internet.
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#46Too bad modern Firefox doesn't actually have the support to run full featured uBlock Origin since they moved to the Chrome extensions model and threw away the entire Firefox add-on ecosystem. Actual Firefox forks like Sea Monkey and Palemoon still support the fully featured uBlock Origin.
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#47Recently, the uBlock Origin icon in my toolbar has just disappeared and doesn't appear in the overflow menu.
Anyone else see this?
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#48I think it's only a matter of time until adblock is legally banned. The current situation, where the vast majority of the internet relies solely on ads and an increasing number of people use adblock year over year is unsustainable. The system can support a certain number of free riders (people who consume the product but don't contribute back in ad eyeballs), but at a certain point the math will no longer work. Event…
It's exponential growth that's unsustainable. Just five years ago, ad revenues on the internet were half of today. How did we "sustain" it then?
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#49I instantly install this extension whenever I work on a new machine as I could not imagine browsing the web without it. For that reason I just went looking for a donate button to help fund the project and it turns out they don't even accept donations https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-...
"Have a thought for the maintainers of the various lists. These lists are everything. This can't be emphasized enough."
So you can fund the project -- by donating to the lists it relies on.
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#50The most popular extension, and the 2nd most popular, just like the 6th, 7th, 9th and 10th most popular, are ad-blockers. I guess it's only marketers that love targeted ads...
I sometimes wonder if adtech devs also use adblockers.