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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.
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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This basically never happens if you're using default config uBlock origin
Happens occasionally. It is uncommon but happens enough to ruin the day of unsuspecting users. 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 w…
I still install uBlock Origin on most of my friends computers, but make sure they know to open any sites that break in a private tab.
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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?
"...whenever a website doesn't work for any reason I get an earfull about my 'damn adblocker'..."
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.
As someone who has sat in front of a computer daily for nearly 30 years, this really hit me.
I am REALLY good at maintaining a no-ad/no-spam experience for my self with high-density-information content, that I almost never see ads.
My viewing is clean, I have never been accidentally rick-rolled, I have never seen TG1C, TubGirl, etc... no Ogrish or other crap...
I am my own 'curator'
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But yeah - if you dont take time to set mental-health-boundaries against the internet - then the internet is the same as the experiments when they just plugged in a machine (win98? xp? cant reacall) - pwnd in matter of minutes.
Thats the same as your mind.
put mental firewalls up.
Be open to positive content, but destroy negative impacts on your mental health with impunity.
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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
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uBo is great, but can sometimes break sites who ask you to 'disable your AD blocker to view this page'. That's rare though, but it does happen.
By default we defuse such anti-blocker. If it happens, it's just a matter of reporting it to filter list maintainers. The more people report issues, the better the default filter lists get. Also, a common cause of such anti-blocker walls is the use of other content blockers beside uBO, as this often breaks uBO's own anti-blocker mechanisms -- we often resolve such issues by asking people to disable other content bloc…
I was hoping uBO would eventually get a dedicated feature like that, I don't think it's possible with filters. I tried pretty hard. I think knowing anyone could decide to completely erase a domain from their entire internet experience, down to the link level, would motivate sites not to do stupid things like this.
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Not installing ublock on your wife's laptop? Why are you so cruel?
I've offered, but she declined. She really likes sales and coupon offers, extensions for cash-back that are based on tracking, etc. Someone else said it best about their spouse on another thread: "...whenever a website doesn't work for any reason I get an earfull about my 'damn adblocker'..." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30150762
"I like the ads." - Wife
wish we can use ublock as a proxy to do a network wide adblock !