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Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by marssaxman »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #41
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.

Yes! I also delete all the cookie warnings (try ###onetrust-consent-sdk to eliminate many of them) and the "subscribe to our newsletter" popups.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by jccalhoun »

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?

When it was announced I used it for a while and I seem to remember that the lack of cosmetic filtering was the only thing I really noticed.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by loco5niner »

Defman wrote: post #63
loco5niner wrote: post #54

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Youtubers I follow are doing just that.

Have a look at SponsorBlock. It automatically skips this kind of ads as long as someone contributed the time stamps.

I just let my YouTube Premium lapse, but I'll check that out the next time I pick it back up.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by webmobdev »

m463 wrote: post #218
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.

does ublock origin really work on chrome with its api limitations?

It works but not at par - for best performance, it is advisable to use it with a Firefox clone.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by [deleted] »

pridkett wrote: post #24
aardvarkr wrote: post #11

Have they been able to figure out how to continue being effective with the new chrome manifest junk?

They’re pretty clear. Switch to Firefox. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox for a number of reasons: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by singleshot_ »

khalilravanna wrote: post #176
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…

I’m cherry picking but A vs CNAME is incredibly simple, just not something most keep in their mind since you usually set it and forget it. As an aside, my guess is the recall rate would be a lot higher amongst people if the record types had better names instead of “A” and “CNAME”. Something like “Name-to-ip” and “Name-to-name” seem to be far better (I’m sure I’m missing nuance, like what do we call ALIAS, etc. but yo…

When people say "they don't know the difference between an A and a CNAME" they're not just talking about the basic definition of these concepts, which I agree with you is trivial.

But can you remember _which is which_? For instance, can a host have two A records? Can a host have two CNAMES? one of these might mess with mail delivery but the other is pretty common. Do you remember which is which?

DNS is an onion. At first it makes tons of sense. Then you learn a little bit and it makes less sense. Then you learn some more and it makes more sense. It is a bit tricky like that in a way that trips up lots of people. This speaks a little bit to your "levels of engineers," I think.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by the_af »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #168
the_af wrote: post #99

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Browsing the web without an adblocker is... illuminating. A vision into a corporate hellscape of garbage constantly screaming for your attention. I'm sure they don't allow adblockers in Hell.

IME you learn which sites and services can balance ads vs user needs. So it's only hell if insist on consuming from those who don't care enough about you. Of course if ad blocking gets too be too mainstream all that will be left are 'native' ads and directly paid content.

I don't use "sites", I use the internet. I don't know, beforehand, which page I'll land on.

Some sites I do use out of necessity, because I follow the "content"/"community", and it happens to be there: YouTube, Facebook. It saddens me to no end a lot of groups of niche interests are only on Facebook, but if I don't want to end up talking to myself, I'm forced to use it.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #208
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #194

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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.

This reads like a submarine article.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by digisign »

smolder wrote: post #203
abdusco wrote: post #47

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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.

Live drives are still a thing.

However the optimal solution is to keep work and personal completely separate.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by pcthrowaway »

moritzwarhier wrote: post #199
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 funny how I agree with your post, still switched from "full stack" to frontend, have studied at university and still there's a disconnect. I've never dived into DNS and it's mostly a black spot in my knowlesge about weg technology basics. OTOH, I agree with your point in that I've often been very disappointed with the lack of basic knowledge about HTTP and request/response lifecycles with BE as well as FE develo…

As a front-end specialist you really don't need to know about anything about DNS though, unless you're doing front-end for a domain registrar, openDNS, or a cloud provider with DNS services.

I'm perplexed that there are full stack seniors who wouldn't know about this though.

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