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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.
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.
He's written in detail (with many revisions) about why he doesn't accept donations...since 2014, actually (and versioned those on GitHub too). The latest version from April 2022 [1] says: > I do not want the administrative workload that comes with donations. I do not want the project to become in need of funding in any way: no dedicated home page + no forum = no cost = no need for financial support. I want to be free…
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I grew up with ads and learned to not pay attention to them. I still use an ad-blocker on all of my own systems, and on my current company laptop. But a few years back at a different company I didn’t have any ad blocker installed. This was an office job with a desk and coworkers walking past me all the time. So at that job I’m having the browser open reading something and one of the older guys is walking past me. He…
Marketing is a branch that employs hundred of thousands of people to devise the best images to manipulate you. Billions are spent on research in this domain. thinking oneself impervious to ads, let alone blind, is in my view a bit presomptuous. I am convinced you are influenced by ads, you just don't notice it (and that's the point of ads, you shouldn't notice)
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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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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
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…
My half-serious and half-assed attempt at solving a similar problem: make a bot watch the video for you first, then skip the crap. https://butter.sonnet.io
So it can tell when videos contain sponsored segments just from the video's content? What parameters does it check to make its conclusion?
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.
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.
Next up. Pipe the yt url to mpv which uses ytdl to show the video in standard video player in your favorite resolution and codec so your laptop won’t even spin the fan
Would this add-on benefit Brave users?
As far as I know, they actually embed it: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/v1.54.44/components... Although I can't say with 100% confidence because their build system is some ... special
Disclaimer: I work at Brave but not on the browser.