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Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by rpastuszak »

plewd wrote: post #236
rpastuszak wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That is such a well made website, love the art. So it can tell when videos contain sponsored segments just from the video's content? What parameters does it check to make its conclusion?

Thanks!

It's quite primitive:

1. I have a service extracting captions from YT videos.

2. I process them a little bit (parallel batches with a sliding window containing the captions),

3. then add to a simple GPT-4 prompt with some examples.

Feel free to check the repo source (esp. detector.js and its dependencies)

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by venusenvy75 »

WirelessGigabit wrote: post #82
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

Which also integrates with ytdlp. I run an instance of metube. If I want to watch a longer video I throw the video there, it downloads it, strips the sponsor stuff and makes it available on Plex.

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by ryantgtg »

93po wrote: post #146
me_bx wrote: post #111

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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.

You can definitely blocks ads on your iPhone browser. Use a content blocker like wipr or firefox focus.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by eipi10_hn »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #144
dlisboa wrote: post #97

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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.

In fact, the ethical ones that are clearly written are the users with blockers, NOT the websites with ads

https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#render

> 2.12 People should be able to render web content as they want

> People must be able to change web pages according to their needs. For example, people should be able to install style sheets, assistive browser extensions, and blockers of unwanted content or scripts or auto-played videos. We will build features and write specifications that respect peoples' agency, and will create user agents to represent those preferences on the web user's behalf.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by eipi10_hn »

all2 wrote: post #117
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.

It doesn't work for Prime videos with ads, which is irritating (I pay for Prime so I don't have to see ads, among other benefits).

You mean Amazon Prime? With this release, it's already addressed: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/14512#issueco...

However, until the stable release is out for all supported browsers, you'll need dev (pre-release) build (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases) to test it.

What we need are users' reports and feedbacks. For example, I don't know if the domain is `amazon.com` or `primevideo.com`.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by eipi10_hn »

nicce wrote: post #122
Kiro wrote: post #110

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What's the rationale for not accepting donations?

Resisting for temptation? Showing for everyone, that decisions are not influenced by money? Suddenly Google throws a promise of one million donation in hopes of enabling ads in Youtube.

Obviously a project like this has already been offered multi-figure money deals already: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-issues/issues/44

And he declined all.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by eipi10_hn »

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.

Anti-adblock has been in active for years now, and it's fixed by default in uBO. What it needs is users' detailed reports and feedbacks.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by eipi10_hn »

tasty_freeze wrote: post #26
gapo wrote: post #9

The hero we don't deserve.

Further cementing his hero status, I checked if there was a way to donate. The homepage says: > The uBlock Origin project still specifically refuses donations at this time, and instead advises all of its clients, users and supporters to donate to block list maintainers.

Although not really import but just FYI, if you mean the website https://ublockorigin.com/ it's not the homepage, it's a fan-made page. uBO does not have any servers nor websites. The "homepage" is just the github page: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by News-Dog »

evo_9 wrote: post #167
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've been using uBlock for a long time but I really don't think I've scratched its surface; do you (or anyone) have a good write-up on advanced uses of UBlock? That would be super helpful!

uBlock Origin (uBO) Wiki : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by News-Dog »

drannex wrote: post #124
slt2021 wrote: post #106

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I wish there was a way to auto-hide Cookie consent and Subscribe banner prompt automatically on each and every site

It's not perfect, but you might be looking for the "I still don't care about Cookies"[1] or Consent-O-Matic[2] extensions. [1]. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies [2]. https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

uBlock Origin 1.50.0 - Includes 'Annoyances' filters ( Not enabled by default )

Annoyances 0/14

AdGuard – Annoyances 0/6

AdGuard – Cookie Notices

AdGuard – Mobile App Banners

AdGuard – Other Annoyances

AdGuard – Popup Overlays

AdGuard – Social Media

AdGuard – Widgets

EasyList – Annoyances 0/6

EasyList – Chat Widgets

EasyList – Cookie Notices

EasyList – Newsletter Notices

EasyList – Notifications

EasyList – Other Annoyances

EasyList – Social Widgets

Fanboy – Anti-Facebook

uBlock filters – Annoyances

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