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Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by mldbk »

kapitanjakc wrote: post #136
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.

I train people in web, and here's my observation. Younger generation is comfortable with ads, paying for extra items in their games, purchasing stuff from those ads, installing apps from the ads etc. They also are comfortable in knowing only their scope of work and they get only that much done. Older generation people, they very rarely will pay for items in games online, will curse when ads are targeted. They also te…

> They also tend to work better if they understand overall scenario.

THIS!

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by AHOHA »

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.

Can’t wait so all these cringy “content creators” are gone for good, might YT be fun again and start watching it.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by smolder »

abdusco wrote: post #47
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #35

Now if only I could install this onto my corporate locked-down laptop.

I think you can download portable version of a Chromium-based browser and install any extension you want on it.

If it's like the locked down laptop I had to work on in a recent role, running a portable browser is not an option. Everything had to be installed by admins via "service now" requests. It wasn't a particularly efficient process to set up a machine... but for security/compliance reasons, practically nothing was allowed to happen below the radar.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by jart »

jjulius wrote: post #86
belter wrote: post #74

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I am even more amazed, about companies paying for ads, while seeming to ignore most users will not see them as they use adblocks plugins.

>... most users will not see them as they use adblocks plugins. Forgive my ignorance, but is there data around what percentage of browsers has an adblocker installed? I am inclined to assume that a tech-focused forum such as HN is going to use them at a much more disproportionate rate relative to the average, non-tech-savvy joe, and therefore further assume that they're not as widely adopted as we might think. I coul…

42.7% is unbelievably huge. Can the tech economy even survive if half the people are taking free rides? For the longest time it was no more than 10% since only the technical class used the things. Nowadays corporate and government policymakers are requiring adblockers be installed on normy computers.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by AHOHA »

pachico wrote: post #123
m5r wrote: post #109

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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.

I had the same experience, it’s a mentality for sure, some are open to try and test and others are not, to the point for some close family members, after failing to convince them, next time I took it to “fix” something, I sneakily installed it.

P.S. My home network had a network level blocker, but that was in case they don’t use my network or for other ads that are in the same domain.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by rnk »

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

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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…

Back many decades ago when I started, the field wasn't so broad and you could learn how so many more things worked, compilers, DNS, IP, distributed systems, hardware implementation, blah blah blah.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by paulryanrogers »

dingledork69 wrote: post #158
paulryanrogers wrote: post #144

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

Indeed, spying on users and sharing data about them so you can make a buck is unethical.

This presumes ads must spy on users. Yet ads have existed long before such spying was possible and can and do exist without spying on the web.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by paulryanrogers »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #194
dingledork69 wrote: post #158

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Indeed, spying on users and sharing data about them so you can make a buck is unethical.

Not to mention ads incite to consume more, attempt to creep inside your daily thoughts and lie about the qualities of the product using all the tricks in the books. Add on top of this it gives more power to the big players with more money and create terrible incentive for the medias and you have one of the easiest moral decision in the world.

Not all ads are exploitive or deceptive. Ads empower small players as well. Without them large and entrenched players have a greater advantage.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by judge2020 »

birdboat00 wrote: post #116
jccalhoun wrote: post #15

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Gorhill released a lite version as a test: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite...

how good is it compared to the non-light version for only ad blocking?

It has a preset few lists in the extension, and you can only adjust a slider to determine blocking level, with the default just being DeclarativeWebRequest (non-blocking) ad domain blocking, and the higher tiers I suppose blocking dynamic content on the page like usual. No custom filters.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by hintymad »

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…

> 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 how it works or anything deeper than simple what to type to fix a problem.

If this is true across the board, it may be a data point that software engineering requires a set of specific mentality and skills, so much so that we software engineers can still enjoy imbalanced supply and demand of tech talent for years to come. On the other hand, it can well be my wishful thinking. EE has always been more hardcore to master and was once a booming career, but the market for EE talent shrank a lot from its hay days.

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