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Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by ljm »

jacurtis wrote: post #88
dlisboa wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> 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…

The frontend dev experience in particular is so heavily abstracted these days that it’s no surprise that the rest of the stack is ‘out of sight, out of mind’. You spend most of your time in the browser and deployment is just a fire-and-forget CI integration (like with Vercel).

I’d expect more from backend and full-stack engineers since it becomes much more relevant then.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by j5155 »

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.

Agreed. Funnily enough every single school provided chromebook in my city comes with it preinstalled, and yet the teachers don’t use it.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by Ne02ptzero »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #137
bj-rn wrote: post #70

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There is also sponsorblock (at least for YT): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock

I tried Sponsorblock for a while, mainly for getting all the garbage out of LTT vids. But I ended up turning it off because it always seems to jump a little to soon and a little too far. So it will jump from mid sentence to mid another sentence seemingly out of nowhere, which got to be too disorienting for me. Now I just use it for the little green marker and skip manually.

Segments are provided by community members, and you can adjust/edit them if you're finding the segment to be badly timed yourself.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by progman32 »

bj-rn wrote: post #70
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…

There is also sponsorblock (at least for YT): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock

Also useful for skipping intros and recaps. Saves time for hn lurking.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by [deleted] »

evrimoztamur wrote: post #103
irrational wrote: post #98

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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.)

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by irrational »

evrimoztamur wrote: post #103
irrational wrote: post #98

Earlier 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.)

I’ve been working professionally in the field for 25+ years. I just turn it over to the network and devops teams when it’s time to deploy. There is no reason a web developer should know those things.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by nfriedly »

nbar1 wrote: post #52
nfriedly wrote: post #18

> Add thunderbird as target for installation That's interesting. I get a couple of newsletters with advertising in them, and while I still find the Thunderbird interface a little clunky, this might sway me a bit. I'm currently running Thunderbird as an email backup solution, with a rule to automatically copy every new email to a local folder. Maybe I'll start using it a bit more. (It's in a docker image on my file se…

> Thunderbird is clunky > I'm running it in a docker image on my file server, accessed via noVNC in a browser

FWIW, I have used Thunderbird locally in the past. And it felt clunky then too.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by Marsymars »

s1k3s wrote: post #90

I’m curious what the plan is for when everyone starts blocking adblockers in YouTube style. Switching browsers won’t do anything to that.

What do you mean by “in YouTube style”? As far as I can tell, blocking ads on YouTube works fine.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by PCP7 »

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.

Pipe-viewer (CLI, gtk), invidio.us or piped (web).

But yeah, ublocks content hiding is a gem.

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