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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
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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
The default rules probably won't cause issues, but you'll still see a lot of ads. As you optimize these away, things start breaking
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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
For example, go to https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/My-EE-app-and-website/EE-Site-... and search for "Adblocker" in this page. You will find a story where their mobile service provider blacklisted their IP because they clicked on a button on the website while their adblocker was enabled.
Exactly the same thing happened to me with the same mobile service provider except that I was using uBlock origin when my mobile service provider blacklisted my IP.
Bank websites sometimes breaking in the presence of an adblocker is a common occurrence in many parts of the world.
You live in one geography and you visit websites that you need in your life. Do not assume everyone else is having the same experience as you. Websites breaking in the presence of adblockers is a real thing that sometimes makes us hesitate to install it on the browsers of our friends and family who may not be as tech savvy as we are.
I am saddened that I do not know how to best express my gratitude towards gorhill, and the filter list maintainers, for their incredibly valuable, tireless work, so "Thank you, so, so much!" will have to do here.
It's only thanks to uBlock Origin, I believe, that my parents (of rather old age) are able to make positive use of the Internet. A world without uBlock Origin would see them drowning in an onslaught of noise, attacks, flashing attention-grabbing spam, none of which improves the quality of their lives.
So, thank you, thank very very much, gorhill, and the filter list maintainers!
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…
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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.
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?
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…
I believe uMatrix development was discontinued a few years ago, so it is not surprising that it doesn't work reliably anymore.
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…
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.