I wonder; is there a way to calculate how much electricity uBlock saves over time?
If all you browse is HN or other ad-less websites, uBlock wastes electricity instead of saving it :)
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#122I understand why gorhill doesn't ask for donations, but I still wish there was some sneaky way I could send him some money anyway.
What's the rationale for not accepting donations?
Resisting for temptation?
Showing for everyone, that decisions are not influenced by money?
Suddenly Google throws a promise of one million donation in hopes of enabling ads in Youtube.
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#123From time to time, I happen to browse using someone else's computer (browser) and I get immediately overwhelmed by how crappy the experience is without uBO. Yet, I cannot convince people to install it :)
Telling them it blocks ads on YouTube has been enough to convince them every single time so far
Weirdly enough, some people I know are still are afraid of it. I can't really know why but they distrust change.
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#124Ublock 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 wish there was a way to auto-hide Cookie consent and Subscribe banner prompt automatically on each and every site
It's not perfect, but you might be looking for the "I still don't care about Cookies"[1] or Consent-O-Matic[2] extensions.
[1]. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies [2]. https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those all sound like things for a network engineer to know. I’d rather a web developer spend their time mastering the intricacies of CSS than learning someone else’s specialty.
No, you would know about these things if you ever deployed an application (and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
DNS records are usually set once and forget. You read the documentation once when you’re doing it, and then you basically never have to touch it again. I had to look up the difference between a CNAME and an A record, even though I’ve set them numerous times before. Not useful in day-to-day.
DNS servers: going to assume you query a DNS server that has a map of domain names to IP addresses, with basic routing via DNS records, which then resolve to a final address which is sent back. Again, never going to have to know this unless I’m a network admin.
Port-mapping: what is there to understand? I have literally never had to map ports unless I’m port-forwarding a game server I’m running on my local machine, that’s using a router to be exposed to the outside network. Literally, every cloud provider will give you an endpoint address that does not require port-mapping. If you’re setting up a company network you have to port-map, but not if you’re deploying a simple server/app. Ergo, network admin’s job.
Compilers: lol. There’s tons of languages, and tons of different compilers for each language. Then there’s distinguishing compilers, interpreters, compiler-interpreters, and transpilers. At the end of the day they take text (usually) and transform it into another form. I’ve built a compiler before (toy AST & recursive descent), but I have never needed to know about it in a CRUD context.
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#126Have they been able to figure out how to continue being effective with the new chrome manifest junk?
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I recommend brave as well. I've had it running on my phone for a month or two now and it is quite nice in terms of search results. I also don't really deal with ads on websites, including YT.
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#127Ublock 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.
Oh god yes. It filters out ~50% of my youtube. I'm at the point where I can't view websites on my phone anymore because I can't stand all the ads, three popup videos all autoplaying and talking over each other ... ublock origin provides such a stark contrast.
Phones have adblockers too. I know they are harder to use on Android than iOS, but both have them.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
The silver lining of the current state of embedding the ads into the video itself at least is the creator makes the deal directly with the advertiser, rather than through YouTube. But you're suggesting that YouTube alter the video to insert the ads, which wouldn't be the same thing. IDK how that would scale (processing uploaded videos seems to take a while still on YouTube, and splicing video in a way that gives YT t…
This is how podcast ads generally work- the adtech can splice a targeted ad directly into the audio file, even when streaming in real time.
Right? The fact that YT hasn't started doing that leads me to believe it's harder than we think.
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#129My 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…
The silver lining of the current state of embedding the ads into the video itself at least is the creator makes the deal directly with the advertiser, rather than through YouTube. But you're suggesting that YouTube alter the video to insert the ads, which wouldn't be the same thing. IDK how that would scale (processing uploaded videos seems to take a while still on YouTube, and splicing video in a way that gives YT t…
I'm also generally less offended by "dumb" advertising, where everybody consuming the same media receives the same advertisements. It doesn't contribute to a surveillance capitalism dystopia to nearly the same degree as the carefully chosen for you advertising schemes.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh god yes. It filters out ~50% of my youtube. I'm at the point where I can't view websites on my phone anymore because I can't stand all the ads, three popup videos all autoplaying and talking over each other ... ublock origin provides such a stark contrast.
Phones have adblockers too. I know they are harder to use on Android than iOS, but both have them.
Without VPN, iOS doesn't have an ad blocker for in-app ads, like YouTube. And blockers for browsers is extremely poor, routinely failing to block ads. Then there are sites which detect ad blockers and flag them, prevent the site from being used without disabling the ad blocker on Safari/WebView.