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Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by aequitas »

dlisboa wrote: post #64
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’m often amazed at how people I know, full internet “power users”, don’t use it and complain about ads. I have never seen an ad in years, not on YouTube or wherever. How do people who build web stuff daily not know about adblocks? It’s so weird to me.

I encountered it kinda the other way around. In a previous job I had developed a deployment system for developers. Some users on one specific team only where complaining their deployment would not show up in the tool. Though they where properly deployed after the pressed the button. Many debug sessions later I sat down with one developer and found the issue. Their team “advertising” had the team name in the deployments. So the request to get deploy status would be blocked because all of them ran adblockers themselves.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by ElectricalUnion »

psychphysic wrote: post #114
belter wrote: post #105

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Is that true in all cases? It seems for example for Cost-per-mille (CPM) advertising if a user has an ad-blocker, they will not see the ad, but it would still count towards the number of impressions if the ad request is made?

> in all cases No idea of course. I couldn't tell you any anything in ALL cases. But the ad space is dominated by a few companies and all do that as far as I know. The other dominating ad space is spliced into videos and they certainly know you will skip around if you can on YouTube. > If a request is made It won't be made that's what adblockers do. Or it won't land in the case of pihole/DNS level blockers. Otherwise…

There's some adblockers focused on disrupting tracking and those will both intentionally load ads and automatically click on every one of them for you.

https://adnauseam.io/

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by paulryanrogers »

dlisboa wrote: post #97
jacurtis wrote: post #88

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> how do people who build web stuff daily not know.. I'll stop it right there. You'd be surprised how many people who build web stuff daily know surprisingly little about how the web actually works or any details aside from that. A surprisingly massive portion of people in tech have learned just enough through bootcamps and youtube videos to accomplish just enough for the specific job they are doing without realizing…

It’s not even those professionals, I’m talking people who are highly skilled and trained (CS/Engineering degrees). Like they could tell you off the top of their head HOW to build an adblocker, but they don’t use one themselves. That type of disconnect that is weird to me. People who don’t know any better I can understand.

Ad blockers can be an ethical issue if one considers that's what funds a site's content and its widespread availability.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by themoonisachees »

intelthrow6 wrote: post #125
evrimoztamur wrote: post #103

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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 r…

I'd like to take the opportunity to throw some shade at network admins because out of all companies I worked at, they have consistently been the slowest to respond when their stack is usually the most reactive to changes.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by 93po »

me_bx wrote: post #111
awiejrliawjer wrote: post #102

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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.

Why not use Firefox mobile, on which ublock origin can be installed?

Only on Android, not iOS. I have an iphone now after android my whole life. The biggest feature it's missing is the ability to block ads. It means I refuse to use the browser on my phone, which is a pretty big feature to lack.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by 93po »

nullindividual wrote: post #130
The5thElephant wrote: post #127

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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.

With the right filter lists, you can also get around those adblocker blockers.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by 93po »

EscapeFromNY wrote: post #34

I understand why gorhill doesn't ask for donations, but I still wish there was some sneaky way I could send him some money anyway.

Volunteer your time reporting blocking issues. Also sign up for the annoyances filters and report for those as well, because there's opportunities everywhere

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by 93po »

wonder_er wrote: post #59
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.

couldn't agree more. I put together an explainer about how to use it to _rapidly_ (and usually permanently) delete nearly any part of public websites. When I see friends on many websites now, it makes my heart ache. https://josh.works/take-back-your-attention

Routine reminder for everyone to also subscribe to annoyance block lists, which you aren't by default. It massively improves the web

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by psychphysic »

ElectricalUnion wrote: post #142
psychphysic wrote: post #114

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> in all cases No idea of course. I couldn't tell you any anything in ALL cases. But the ad space is dominated by a few companies and all do that as far as I know. The other dominating ad space is spliced into videos and they certainly know you will skip around if you can on YouTube. > If a request is made It won't be made that's what adblockers do. Or it won't land in the case of pihole/DNS level blockers. Otherwise…

There's some adblockers focused on disrupting tracking and those will both intentionally load ads and automatically click on every one of them for you. https://adnauseam.io/

Neat idea, I'd worry that the tracking is worse than the benefit.

That said I routinely let long YouTube ads play while I go off to do something else. Personal best was circa 1.5hour ad!

Someone told me that costs them big bucks so long as it's not skipped.

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