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Re: µBlock for Firefox

#81

Post by mrec » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 12:45 PM UTC

Beltiras wrote: post #56

chii wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How will journalism fund itself and maintain some semblance of integrity? i suspect journalists can do that by asking for a larger subscription. If society truly values the work of journalists, instead of it being a conduit for advertising, then it will be paid accordingly. If not, then, yes, it's a shame, but it really means that nobody values the work of a true journalist (especially investigative journalism), an…

I find your fatalism disheartening. Aren't good things worth fighting for? Shouldn't people care?

I think conflating "viewing ads" with "fighting for good things" is going a little far. Grandparent isn't against people caring, and specifically mentioned the possibility of showing that via higher subscriptions.

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#82

Post by topdownjimmy » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 12:47 PM UTC

> ...the inalienable right to privacy.

Yes, you have a right not to visit any website you don't want to.

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#83

Post by JohnTHaller » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 12:47 PM UTC

If the author is here, please turn off the counter by default. We're blocking distracting things in our browser, we don't need another pointless distracting thing in our browser toolbar.

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#84

Post by perlgeek » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 12:49 PM UTC

topdownjimmy wrote: post #82

> ...the inalienable right to privacy. Yes, you have a right not to visit any website you don't want to.

If all websites declared all privacy violations up-front, that might be a viable solution.

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#85

Post by topdownjimmy » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 12:52 PM UTC

perlgeek wrote: post #84

topdownjimmy wrote: post #82

> ...the inalienable right to privacy. Yes, you have a right not to visit any website you don't want to.

If all websites declared all privacy violations up-front, that might be a viable solution.

Turn off cookies and JavaScript.

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#86

Post by mcovey » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 12:58 PM UTC

Direct wrote: post #76

This is awesome! I recently read this ticket[1] mentioning that porting of µBlock seems to be a starting point for gorhill to port µMatrix. In my perfect world, I would be using Firefox with nothing but µMatrix, as it is right now I'm having to use Chrome with µMatrix and sadly can't get rid of µBlock until µMatrix can hide blocked frames. Still, getting closer to that perfect world! The work done by gorhill is amazi…

Check out Policeman: https://github.com/futpib/policeman

It's similar to uMatrix and is under very active development.

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#87

Post by pXMzR2A » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 1:01 PM UTC

Beltiras wrote: post #56

chii wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How will journalism fund itself and maintain some semblance of integrity? i suspect journalists can do that by asking for a larger subscription. If society truly values the work of journalists, instead of it being a conduit for advertising, then it will be paid accordingly. If not, then, yes, it's a shame, but it really means that nobody values the work of a true journalist (especially investigative journalism), an…

I find your fatalism disheartening. Aren't good things worth fighting for? Shouldn't people care?

>> yes, it's a shame, but it really means that nobody values the work of a true journalist (especially investigative journalism)

> I find your fatalism disheartening.

It's not fatalism but rather a political statement.

OP argues from within the superficial logic of capitalist exchange: the value of a commodity is whether and for how much it sells.

Uninterestingly enough, the thing which the OP will not be sad to kill is investigative journalism, which is pretty much the only branch of intellectual work that can undo the corruption that is brought on by the above psychotic logic.

What you think is fatalism is actually poorly disguised pro-corruption propaganda.

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#88

Post by rb2k_ » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 1:01 PM UTC

fpgaminer wrote: post #71

It seems like, if one were an evil web developer, one could thwart blockers like these with a few nasty tricks. Server-side: on each request of a resource, salt all linked resource URIs and encrypt (after the host name) before sending the final document to the client. The resources can still be fetched, because the server can decrypt any requests, but the client has no way of knowing whether a particular resource is…

I guess the problem would be that this will make these requests basically uncachable in something like Varnish :)

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#89

Post by msl09 » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 1:02 PM UTC

molticrystal wrote: post #22

How is the performance for the firefox port? I might of missed it, but all I see are reports in comparison to adblockers on chrome.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Firefox-version:-benc...

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#90

Post by threedaymonk » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 1:05 PM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #50

Does this also work for Firefox on Android? EDIT: it seems that it's not compatible with Firefox 35 on my Android. Oh well, more patience required :-)

Bluhell Firewall does work on Firefox for Android, if you're looking for an ad blocker while you wait for µBlock.