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uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

#21

Post by nicoco »

warner25 wrote: post #16
clircle wrote: post #10

Pro tip: if you are concerned that you are spending too much time reading the internet, just uninstall ublock. You'll be so disgusted by the current state of affairs that you'll want to spend as little time online as possible.

Yeah, I've said before that whenever my wife wants to show me something from the web on her laptop, I blown away by how bad it is. The experience in her browser (Chrome with all defaults, usually on ad-supported social media or puzzle or pop culture news sites, or shopping sites) is like being assaulted to me. Of course the other thing that's been happening is that most of it isn't "reading the internet" anymore; it'…

Not installing ublock on your wife's laptop? Why are you so cruel?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

#23

Post by jjoonathan »

nicoco wrote: post #21
warner25 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've said before that whenever my wife wants to show me something from the web on her laptop, I blown away by how bad it is. The experience in her browser (Chrome with all defaults, usually on ad-supported social media or puzzle or pop culture news sites, or shopping sites) is like being assaulted to me. Of course the other thing that's been happening is that most of it isn't "reading the internet" anymore; it'…

Not installing ublock on your wife's laptop? Why are you so cruel?

The real difficulty hurdle isn't installing it (or having someone install it), the real hurdle is when it breaks something important and you have to realize that Ad Block belongs on the suspect list and you have to know how to disable it, reset cookies, and try again.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

#24

Post by kleiba »

jjoonathan wrote: post #23
nicoco wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not installing ublock on your wife's laptop? Why are you so cruel?

The real difficulty hurdle isn't installing it (or having someone install it), the real hurdle is when it breaks something important and you have to realize that Ad Block belongs on the suspect list and you have to know how to disable it, reset cookies, and try again.

Yeah, except that has never happened to me in 20+ years of using ad blockers.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

#25

Post by gorhill »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #22

why on earth would they add their own beautifying code viewer to the extension. this thing has become bloat city

This is an auxiliary tool, it does not affect uBO's efficiency when not using the auxiliary tools (logger, viewers, etc.) You won't find a leaner content blocker than uBO CPU- and memory-wise, by quite a good margin, and this new auxiliary tool changes nothing about this.

Being a volunteer filter list maintainer is a thankless and time-consuming task, and when I myself investigate filter issues, I repeatedly have to go through the same steps which is looking at the source code of pages and JS resources, which most often are minified, and it's also difficult to navigate between the different resources back and forth. If you want to understand the benefits, I suggest you regularly try to contribute to filter lists.[1]

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[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

#26

Post by 12345hn6789 »

jjoonathan wrote: post #23
nicoco wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not installing ublock on your wife's laptop? Why are you so cruel?

The real difficulty hurdle isn't installing it (or having someone install it), the real hurdle is when it breaks something important and you have to realize that Ad Block belongs on the suspect list and you have to know how to disable it, reset cookies, and try again.

This basically never happens if you're using default config uBlock origin

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

#27

Post by babypuncher »

pkulak wrote: post #15
jhoelzel wrote: post #6

I can not even thank the existence of this project enough! the simple improvement in internet speed is well worth it, even though i do too have a pihole running. Sometimes when i visits friends i barely recognize sites that i use frequently.

I just run AdGuard Home network wide and have never seen a huge need to run a browser blocker as well. What are you getting out of using both?

DNS-based ad blockers only block connections to domains known to serve ads.

A browser-based blocker is able to block ads served by the same domain as the content you actually want, without blocking said content. They are also able to apply fixes to pages that break or have bad layouts when ads fail to load in.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

#28

Post by medo-bear »

nicoco wrote: post #21
warner25 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've said before that whenever my wife wants to show me something from the web on her laptop, I blown away by how bad it is. The experience in her browser (Chrome with all defaults, usually on ad-supported social media or puzzle or pop culture news sites, or shopping sites) is like being assaulted to me. Of course the other thing that's been happening is that most of it isn't "reading the internet" anymore; it'…

Not installing ublock on your wife's laptop? Why are you so cruel?

i think that is grounds for divorce

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

#29

Post by Semaphor »

Dwedit wrote: post #13

Unfortunately, uMatrix (the other gorhill project) has bad bugs on Firefox. When you navigate to another page, it will sometimes get the host for a web request wrong, causing it to apply the wrong rules for that request. This can cause you to lose your login cookies. And since uMatrix has been discontinued, so there's no more central repository to collect bug fixes. A fork is available called nuTensor which does reso…

Do you have an example of how one can test that? Or be more specific? I don’t remember ever encountering any issue like that, but that might simply be because I didn’t know about that bug.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

#30

Post by ktta »

kleiba wrote: post #24
jjoonathan wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real difficulty hurdle isn't installing it (or having someone install it), the real hurdle is when it breaks something important and you have to realize that Ad Block belongs on the suspect list and you have to know how to disable it, reset cookies, and try again.

Yeah, except that has never happened to me in 20+ years of using ad blockers.

Never? So many news websites detect adblocker use and stop you from reading the article till you disable it
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