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uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by Night_Thastus »

danielwmayer wrote: post #28

Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well. For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.

When reading, I often scroll up and down, and those annoying banners that appear only when you scroll up drive me mad. I hit em with the 'ol uBlock zap and they go away. So much nicer.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by inconceivable »

scohesc wrote: post #32

My terminology may be wrong, but I would assume these ad-blockers are great until streaming platforms catch up and embed ads directly into the video stream. Twitch is getting close to that. They directly inject video ads into streams at random times causing you to miss parts of streams. uBlock Origin seemed to have a way around that with some extra setup but it's only a matter of time before it's completely transpare…

it's a never-ending cat and mouse game. there is no "end state".

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by MegaDeKay »

danielwmayer wrote: post #28

Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well. For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.

The most valuable chrome AND Firefox extension, without a doubt.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by mouse_ »

danielwmayer wrote: post #28

Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well. For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.

Ublock is a scam. Ublock Origin is without a doubt the most valuable chrome extension.

I know you people understand this but normal people take our advice and could get scammed.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by PTOB »

mouse_ wrote: post #45
danielwmayer wrote: post #28

Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well. For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.

Ublock is a scam. Ublock Origin is without a doubt the most valuable chrome extension. I know you people understand this but normal people take our advice and could get scammed.

Are "normal people" reading these comments, or is it just us?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by MegaDeKay »

jccalhoun wrote: post #16
politician wrote: post #2

Is this the good one that isn't the scam? Which ones are the shady ones these days?

Ublock Origin is the good one. Ublock is bad one.

Correct. Not sure why the OP is getting downvoted as that was a reasonable question. It would be easy to mix up which of "Ublock" and "Ublock Origin" should be used.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by MattyMc »

danielwmayer wrote: post #28

Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well. For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.

I'd love a brief description on how you filter recommended content from youtube.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by peterhadlaw »

danielwmayer wrote: post #28

Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well. For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.

I often use it to filter contemporary propaganda on most big tech sites, makes pages a lot cleaner
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