Why doesn't firefox build ublock origin directly into firefox
uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
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Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
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I'm tired of the tech hustle culture.
Yeah, I hate it when people believe in the work they’re doing and are eager to talk about it. Just the worst.
Part of me thinks this would be a better place if everyone was prohibited from talking about themselves and their projects. Let the braggarts chest-thump on Product Hunt, that place is already a wasteland
It's like everything tech has to be a dog and pony show nowadays.
Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
#353The internet without an adblock is just a scary, misleading place that's trying to trick you into scams, echochambers, bad deals, bad advice, botnets and cryptolockers.
In 16 years on the internet with as blocking limited to manually blocked annoyances only I have never had any of those issues. I’m almost certain it’s just an argument to justify adblocking. I wish people had the ability to avoid all the motivated reasoning and just honestly admit the selfishness of their behavior.
Ad tech went too far and has driven everyone to blocking. If the extent of ads was a couple of Google style sponsored text based results a lot of people would probably be fine seeing those.
Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
#354Earlier quoted context omitted.
DNS filtering sucks and can't filter ads served from the same domain as content, if all you can block is a FQDN, there's an absolute shit ton of trackers and ads that are getting past you. This is why piholes are awful. I don't know why they get such high praise - it's just a crappy DNS filter that blocks like what 40% of the ads you see?
pi hole is great and is just another layer.
pi hole is as great as those blocklist filters people used to add into Torrent clients or using tools like PeerBlock.
It's just so faulty and pointless.
Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
#355Are there any add blockers for iOS? I want to get a tablet for reading on the couch but I assume I would need an Android or Surface tablet in order to install Firefox with uNlock Origin.
Try Firefox Focus.
Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
that picture only captures, like 5-10% of what you see as you pass through there.
I think it's always ridiculously represented as "hurr this is what America is!"
It has every chain business there because it's the intersection of major highways where there's no other meaningfully-sized rest stops around for hours.
Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
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"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.
While I agree on supporting the things you use. I don't think "the lists are everything". Quite the opposite, Its the blocking features. For me I like uBlocks disabling Javascript with an easy click and the other granularity (popups, multimedia) it allows on a site by site basis.
Please explain how you are able to disable Javascript.
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The law says that agreeing or disagreeing should be equally easy. Companies are breaking that law.
It’s hard to know what a law says that requires you to read 11 chapters with 99 sections just to create a website. https://gdpr-info.eu/
completely false, it's trivially possible to create a website without needing to involve GDPR at all.
Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I agree on supporting the things you use. I don't think "the lists are everything". Quite the opposite, Its the blocking features. For me I like uBlocks disabling Javascript with an easy click and the other granularity (popups, multimedia) it allows on a site by site basis.
Please explain how you are able to disable Javascript.
To disable javascript for specific site in uBlock Origin, click the extension icon, then click the "more" button in the menu several times until all options are displayed (you only have to do this step once total, not per site).
Once the 5 top menu icons are visible, click the one to the right that looks like to disable javascript for the site you're on.
Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
#360I 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-...
We're two. It's so useful. I use it on those website who display the "accept all cookies", specially on those ones because I'm tired of denying cookie usage. I still don't understand why Firefox, champion of privacy, doesn't make a uBlock native.
Just to make people aware who may not be, you can block a lot of cookie banners and other annoyances that are not blocked in uBlock Origin by default by enabling more specific filter lists in the extension options.
In the "filter lists" tab, I would recommended enabling the "Fanboy's Annoyance" list. It's a huge list that focuses on removing various annoying, recurring website components, and it's created by the maintainer of Easylist (uBlock Origin's primary filter list).
The downside, of course, is that this may in theory break some additional % of websites, but this has not been an issue in my experience.