With the linked tweet to that retarded definition of theft (https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/518154828166725632), Lea Verou has definitely become the Anita Sarkeesian of web development. She's gone full retard.
µBlock for Firefox
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Re: µBlock for Firefox
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where's the law that says I have to view web content as it's creators intend? You send me a stream of data, I decide what to do with it, what parts to render, what parts to ignore.
There's no law. I work at a newspaper. We are digitally aware and head towards a digital distribution. That means infrastructural changes and that costs money. Those advertisers pay the bills. They provide the means for us to reach you. Subscription models are (currently) not enough. I'm not trying to guilt anyone into anything but this will be a an interesting field to watch in the coming years. How will journalism…
In the December 2014 issue of Le Monde diplomatique there is an interesting article that investigates future possible press models within the French context: http://mondediplo.com/2014/12/13press (in English, but behind a pay wall). The authors argue that for public interest press (news, investigative journalism, etc), a shared publication and distribution institute/company should be funded by the government. In that way, the magazines/newspapers/whatever only have to finance the costs of the journalists and editors. Publication costs are carried by this joint/shared open publisher. The article is focussed on the French situation, and stresses that the government already hands out a yearly €1.6bn subsidy to the press, and end with concluding that funding a joint open publication institute will not be that much different money-wise compared to the current situation.
Re: µBlock for Firefox
#63The GitHub site also states that it's available for Chrome, Opera and Safari (not yet in the extension gallery). Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cjpalhdlnbpafiamej... Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/ublock/ Safari: https://chrismatic.io/ublock Haven't tried it out myself yet but it's nice to see effort put into lowering the memory & CPU usage of such blockers.
Yeah, I've used it on Chrome for half a year now. The news is that it's now available for Firefox.
Re: µBlock for Firefox
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm using it in combination with µMatrix. I'm curious: how do you use it? Do you have to mass-enable stuff using the 'power' icon, for many sites? Or do you just enable the things you know you need, on a per-site basis? Or are your default just good enough? The reason I ask is that I was curious about it, so tried it out for a couple of days. I found many sites were not usable with the default settings, e.g. Udemy'…
I haven't used uMatrix, since I use Firefox, but I can speak for RequestPolicy, which is kind of the same thing basically AFAICS. It's very very very rare that I end up whitelisting everything that's requested on a site. The more you use the extension, the more you learn to recognize what domains you need to allow in order to have the site working as intended, and this way you end up building your own whitelist: allo…
> the more you learn to recognize what domains you need to allow in order to have the site working as intended
Sites using cloudflare are a major issue here, specifically their cryptic subdomains. If someone were to hide an ad network behind those they would be hard to tell apart from the rest, at least for humans.
Re: µBlock for Firefox
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where's the law that says I have to view web content as it's creators intend? You send me a stream of data, I decide what to do with it, what parts to render, what parts to ignore.
Hehe. Surely some DRM friendly folks dreamed about a personal computer platform where you would be forced to go through commercials as with television/video before accessing content.
It's already happening with locked-down mobile devices.
Re: µBlock for Firefox
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no law. I work at a newspaper. We are digitally aware and head towards a digital distribution. That means infrastructural changes and that costs money. Those advertisers pay the bills. They provide the means for us to reach you. Subscription models are (currently) not enough. I'm not trying to guilt anyone into anything but this will be a an interesting field to watch in the coming years. How will journalism…
In the December 2014 issue of Le Monde diplomatique there is an interesting article that investigates future possible press models within the French context: http://mondediplo.com/2014/12/13press (in English, but behind a pay wall). The authors argue that for public interest press (news, investigative journalism, etc), a shared publication and distribution institute/company should be funded by the government. In that…
I agree that journalism is a public good. Having the government fund it sends shivers through my spine. Recently where I live the public broadcasting corp. was threatened with cutbacks due to a perceived slant in coverage. The threats were then carried out after the politician in question was given chairmanship of the parliamentary committee on the budget. That to me is so troublesome I don't consider it viable.
Re: µBlock for Firefox
#67Use /etc/hosts blocking if you are worried about CPU and memory. It also works on rooted Android devices.
Where do you get the filter list to modify /etc/host ? Or Is there a easier way to get the filter list from ABP or mu-block ?
Quite a few sources actually. Beware, some of them can be too restrictive. If the hosts file is too big, it can also impact performance.
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.zip
(too restrictive) http://hosts-file.net/download/hosts.zip
(ad-servers n tracking only) http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.asp
http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showi...
Re: µBlock for Firefox
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where's the law that says I have to view web content as it's creators intend? You send me a stream of data, I decide what to do with it, what parts to render, what parts to ignore.
There's no law. I work at a newspaper. We are digitally aware and head towards a digital distribution. That means infrastructural changes and that costs money. Those advertisers pay the bills. They provide the means for us to reach you. Subscription models are (currently) not enough. I'm not trying to guilt anyone into anything but this will be a an interesting field to watch in the coming years. How will journalism…
It seems like if you're interested in making money online with advertising with "journalism" there's strong pressure to turn yourself into BuzzFeed.... that is, low effort, cheap tricks, information pornography.
Re: µBlock for Firefox
#69It isn't quite clear to me what add-ons this can replace. Obviously AdBlock, but perhaps also Ghostery and No-Script?
There are lists available that block the same things as Ghostery. So yes, it does replace that. Not NoScript, though.
comparison charts between HTTPSB (the predecessor of this topic's software) and Ghostery, inter alia: https://gigaom.com/2014/05/11/not-all-ad-blockers-are-the-sa...