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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

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Post by dizhn »

codetrotter wrote: post #11
dizhn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To make things even more confusing gorhill is actually the creator of the original ublock too.

The way that I recall it is like this: gorhill created uBlock. After some amount of time gorhill found that the uBlock project was taking up too much of his time. gorhill handed over the uBlock project to someone else. That other person or other group of people took the uBlock project in a direction that gorhill did not agree with. gorhill decided that because of this, he should continue to maintain a version of uBlo…

Short version of it is, gorhill actually willingly gave the project away to a contributor who later started to ask for donations. This was not appreciated (hence the very explicit "no donations" policy gorhill now has) and caused a bit of drama and gorhill started developing his own version again. This part I didn't know, but apparently he's not that bitter about it as the guy who took over the project is quite young. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/130#issuecomment-96...

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

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Post by frereubu »

neurostimulant wrote: post #84
frereubu wrote: post #42

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I've got that set up, but it doesn't seem to work: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Cloud-storage I've followed the steps carefully a coupe of times, but still no luck. The page does include the caveat "Cloud storage services offered by specific browser vendors have limitations and quirks and are out of the control of uBO" which seems to be the case for me.

Your list/filters is probably too large. > If syncing is enabled, the data is synced to any Chrome browser that the user is logged into. If disabled, it behaves like storage.local. When the browser is offline, Chrome stores the data locally and resumes syncing when it's back online. The quota limitation is 100 KB approx, 8 KB per item. Consider using it to preserve user settings across synced browsers. https://develo…

Unfortunately not - I only have 121 lines in my filter list. I might dig into it again at some point, but it's only a nice-to-have for me.

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

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Post by aembleton »

0l wrote: post #74
gred wrote: post #71

var internetExperience = uBO ? Experience.NICE : Experience.DIE_A_LITTLE_INSIDE; var internetSafety = -10; internetSafety += windows ? -5 : 3; internetSafety += uBO ? 4 : -9; internetSafety += uMatrix ? 13 : -99;

uMatrix is redundant with uBO Dynamic filtering: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...

How do I block cookies (and only cookies) for a domain using uBO?

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

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Post by heyoni »

cjdoc29 wrote: post #105
heyoni wrote: post #92

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I hooked up my pihole’s on/off switch to HomeKit. Whenever a website doesn’t work, my wife knows she can open the home app and turn off the Pi-hole and try again.

Do you have any more details on this? Sounds like a great idea for the rest of my household.

Yea, it’s a homebridge plugin: https://github.com/arendruni/homebridge-pihole

Really easy to setup once you have homebridge itself running. Just enter in your Pi-hole api key and add it to HomeKit.

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

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Post by bornfreddy »

favaq wrote: post #77
bornfreddy wrote: post #73

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Or uBlock Chrome Edition. When it doesn't work as good as uBO on FF, let it be known whose fault it is.

Chrome will still be faster even if ublock doesn't block as much as FF does. In fact the new declarative filters will most likely be faster than the current ones.

How much faster does it need to be? I have some complaints about FF, but not on the account of speed. I don't care about microbenchmarks, for me it works fast enough to not notice any lag.

Besides, I really don't care how fast it it when displaying ads and tracking me. I'd prefer not to see them, thank you very much.

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

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Post by cjdoc29 »

heyoni wrote: post #124
cjdoc29 wrote: post #105

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Do you have any more details on this? Sounds like a great idea for the rest of my household.

Yea, it’s a homebridge plugin: https://github.com/arendruni/homebridge-pihole Really easy to setup once you have homebridge itself running. Just enter in your Pi-hole api key and add it to HomeKit.

Thank you!

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

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Post by NBPEL »

tyingq wrote: post #50
sharps1 wrote: post #45

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uBlock Lite is already in testing. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite... EDIT: Discussion from 6 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32911640

I wished it had been named "uBlock Neutered" or something that more strongly highlighted the relationship to uBlock Origin.

uBlock Gutted imo.

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

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Post by NBPEL »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #91
foepys wrote: post #5

I somewhat wished that when Chrome switches to manifest v3, uBlock Origin would stop supporting Chrome and its clones. Firefox is the only browser where uBlock Origin is actually working as intended, Chrome on the other hand (even in manifest v2) is blocking so many features that uBO isn't actually able to work as a privacy and anti-malware tool. CNAME uncloaking is essential because websites can counter any filter r…

"Instead you need a gigantic list of filter rules, one for each domain, making loading web pages slower." By not using recursive DNS, including open resolvers or other third party DNS providers, I avoid this problem. I do not need to maintain a list of domains to block,^1 I only need to maintain a list of domains for hosts that I actually want to access. I do not even make remote DNS lookups because generally I alrea…

But DNS has its own weakness, that's dealing with first party ads and anti-adblockers, which websites use a tons nowadays.

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

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Post by account42 »

0l wrote: post #74
gred wrote: post #71

var internetExperience = uBO ? Experience.NICE : Experience.DIE_A_LITTLE_INSIDE; var internetSafety = -10; internetSafety += windows ? -5 : 3; internetSafety += uBO ? 4 : -9; internetSafety += uMatrix ? 13 : -99;

uMatrix is redundant with uBO Dynamic filtering: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...

This isn't even remotely comparable to the uMatrix interface.

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

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Post by 0l »

account42 wrote: post #129
0l wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

uMatrix is redundant with uBO Dynamic filtering: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...

This isn't even remotely comparable to the uMatrix interface.

"Remotely" is a very strong word given that uBO has the vast majority of uMatrix functionality. Care to give some examples?
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