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And ublock origin lite works just fine for me
Not working as well on YouTube. The ad is blocked, but you still need to skip it. You didn't need to do this with UBO.
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People say similar things about Google Search, and a few times I've tried not use Google Search but every time I've tried it's become clear that the reason I use Google Search isn't just habit, but that it's the best search engine for most queries I perform. I've had a very different experience with browsers though... I switch browsers pretty often and with ease. I genuinely can't get my head around why someone would…
Well, today mostly yes. But at the same time, I've been an Opera user (if not fanboy) for a good decade, until they ditched their own engine and basically started from scratch with chrome as a base. It lost 99% of its features overnight. I really struggled to switch to anything else. Firefox was definitely the most customizable, but finding extensions to replicate every feature of Opera, and properly at that, was a n…
did you give a try, is it even remotely comparable ?
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Lite version works for me the same as the original. Blocks majority of ads.
Slippery slope corporate apologism. It's like a corporation shrinking the package size of your food by 10%, keeping the price the same and then claiming you still get the "majority" of the food.
UBOL is still blocking all the ads for me. It hasn't gone from 100% to 90%. It's still at 100%.
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>Apple is totally an advertising company. Have you missed the part about [...] Have you missed the part of my comment of my comment where I specifically mentioned "web advertising presence"? That's relevant, because ublock would only work on web ads. It can't block ads in the app store, or any other app (eg. spotify).
Apple also serves ads and trackers on the web, not just in-app or on the App Store. Here are the relevant built-in uBlock Origin filter rules: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AuBlockOrigin%2FuAssets+ap... Thus they also clearly have an incentive to sabotage uBO. It may be a much smaller piece of their revenue than at Google, but it is a huge proportion of their revenue growth. Don't believe Apple's marketing about…
On Firefox, I use a uBlock Origin script to block Twitch ads. (Normal filters don't work on Twitch.) Is it possible to block Twitch ads with uBO-Lite as well?
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> Ad blocking on Youtube. uBlock Origin Lite blocks all ads on YouTube for me.
> uBlock Origin Lite blocks all ads on YouTube for me. Someone else is saying uBlock Origin Lite leaves a "skippable blank" where the ad used to be, while I know for a fact uBlock Origin completely and transparently skipped over the ad. Could you confirm?
But you have to change the toggle from basic filtering mode to complete filtering mode.
I think some people just haven't realized that.
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> Don't they have a vetting process for extensions? No. > Even if they don't, you, the (power)user should be able to manually turn on whatever you want, should you so desire. It's not as simple as that. As long as it is possible for extensions to have no-holds-barred access to your browser then they'll make that a condition of use, and unsophisticated users (approximately everyone) will just say "eh ok". Browser exte…
> It's not as simple as that. As long as it is possible for extensions to have no-holds-barred access to your browser then they'll make that a condition of use, and unsophisticated users (approximately everyone) will just say "eh ok". Then make it complicated enough so the user has to click through several screens, type in that they know what they're doing and be warned that if extension/website X asks them to do Y,…
Yeah I mean... that's just an arms race. You now have to type "allow pasting" into the dev console to paste Javascript there. Guess why.
Browsers can't ever win that race. Malicious extensions will just say "go to settings and blah blah blah".
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My YouTube ad-blocking experience with uOL looks like a black/muted screen for 30s until the real video starts playing. No "Skip" button appears. I disabled the extension for YouTube so I can at least skip the video after 5s. Is it better for everyone else?
Are you using the "complete" filtering mode? For certain sites, you need to click the extension and change it from "basic" to "complete". This seems to be a performance thing, so it's not doing slower more complete adblocking on sites that don't need it. I've only had to do it on a couple of sites.
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I use Firefox as my main browser and it's not a viable alternative to Chrome if you have the very common usage pattern of keeping tens of tabs open.
1,740 tabs open right now on my wife's Firefox and it seems to be operating just fine. Sounds like something's wrong with your Firefox. I recommend a refresh which can be found under about:support
10, 20, even 30 i can understand. More is the equivalent of forgetting to empty the kitchen trash can and still filling it until the smell is horrible.
someone got to tell her there is a cross on the right to close the tab.
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Yes; the movie where running genuine Microsoft Windows is damn near a requirement if you want to interact with Windows applications. Using Firefox and whatever for the Google cloud is kinda like running Windos applications in Wine or ReactOS.
> kinda like running Windos applications in Wine Sometimes works better than on the original Windows? I assume that's not what you meant though :-)