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uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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Post by trts »

pessimizer wrote: post #164
alarmingfox wrote: post #15

I 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-...

It's hard to forget to install it. The first time you open a browser on a new machine and for a moment, for probably the first time in a while, see how the internet really looks, that's the best ad for uBlock Origin.

The internet with no adblock is a little like driving through Breezewood, Pennsylvania

https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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Post by YaBomm »

alarmingfox wrote: post #15

I 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-...

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Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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Post by matheusmoreira »

airstrike wrote: post #126
matheusmoreira wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not wrong. We're all placing immense amounts of trust in uBlock Origin. I often say that the blockers should be fully integrated into the browsers themselves in order to solve the trust problem. It's sad that it can't happen due to conflicts of interest.

> the blockers should be fully integrated into the browsers themselves in order to solve the trust problem s/solve/transfer

I assume browsers are trustworthy user agents. If this is false, we've already lost.

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

amartya916 wrote: post #204
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #56

Nothing says "our entire industry[0] is a blight upon human society" like a thriving ecosystem of popular software existing for the sole purpose of shutting you the hell up . [0] advertising and marketing industry

I think I know why you are being downvoted, but I just wanted to chime in and say that I get exactly where you are coming from. On certain days, I cannot shake a similar thought from my mind as well. Today though, I'd recommend skimming through uBlock Origin's Github readme: https://github.com/gorhill . Note the "Free. Open source. For users by users. No donations sought." in the About section. Our industry reflects…

Oh, I think I see the issue. If your post is anything to go by then people think I'm talking about tech or even just the web. That's understandable since both are frequently the target of my ire, however in this instance I am specifically talking about the advertising and marketing industry.

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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Post by brimble »

toastercat wrote: post #62

How do ya'll feel about the idea that adblock can be morally equivalent to theft[1]? I see this argument pop up from time to time in relation to people who use alternative clients to services such as YouTube. But if you're using uBlock Origin, you are probably browsing many, many sites that rely at least partially on ad revenue, so it's a similar case. [1] https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/518154828166725632

I don't have to instruct my computer to display everything you decide to send to it. Period. That's the end of the moral argument.

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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Post by beardog »

Larrikin wrote: post #187
beardog wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

UBlock Origin is not just an adblocker though, in their own words it is a "wide-spectrum content blocker" capable of blocking things like malware, cookie consent popups, social media buttons, and outsider intrusion into LAN. If adnauseam did those things I would use it (I don't want to run both at the same time). edit: i'm wrong, it is a ublock origin fork, apologies

Ad Nauseum is a wrapper over Ublock Origin. It says so in the second sentence explaining what it is.

I see, I originally saw AdNauseum years ago and misremembered how it worked, I should have read about it again. Sorry!

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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Post by zamadatix »

bradyd wrote: post #206
zamadatix wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, and I'm sure others have built in ad blockers and even have it enabled by default. Firefox and Safari do not (they stop at built in privacy tracking). Of course every single built in blocker is vastly inferior, either intentionally (like Chrome) or just because uBlock Origin is that much better (like Vivaldi).

Where is this built in ad blocker in Chrome? I have never seen this feature.

It's on by default since 2018 and not very configurable, you can toggle it on a per site basis in the site settings of a site via the "ads" permission for that site. It of course exists to bolster the number of their ads that are viewed not actually block all ads https://blog.google/technology/ads/building-better-web-every...

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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Post by Karunamon »

KarlKemp wrote: post #181
toastercat wrote: post #62

How do ya'll feel about the idea that adblock can be morally equivalent to theft[1]? I see this argument pop up from time to time in relation to people who use alternative clients to services such as YouTube. But if you're using uBlock Origin, you are probably browsing many, many sites that rely at least partially on ad revenue, so it's a similar case. [1] https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/518154828166725632

People find all sorts of arguments that are both logically and morally unsound to justify their behaviour, and it isn’t going to change. For a while I thought they might notice that they are hurting themselves just as much as they are hurting the publishers, since ad blocking is part of the reason the time of freely reading thousands of high-quality sources is coming to an end. But there is really zero appreciation f…

I would take this argument more seriously if paid subscriptions didn't also include ads.

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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Post by brimble »

mariuz wrote: post #152

Dear Mozilla.org please add it as default in the browser if you care about privacy and the web in general, This is the first add-on that I install on all computers , mine or for friends

That they've put off doing the obvious for so long ("obvious" because one of the key selling points of the browser at initial release was, de facto, a form of ad blocking—namely, popup blocking) makes me think we're more likely to see integrated ad-blocking in Safari than in Firefox. But probably neither is very likely.
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