µBlock for Firefox

Post by fpgaminer » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 1:40 PM UTC

DavideNL wrote: post #92

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…

And in response, blockers could then create lists of hashes of ads (pictures) instead of URIs and block those ?

Post by Rovanion » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 1:41 PM UTC

sjwright wrote: post #106

Amazing work. One concern is that the EasyPrivacy‎ list -- which is in my opinion overly aggressive -- is enabled by default. Most pertinently, it entirely disables Google Analytics on every site.

Post by maxerickson » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 1:50 PM UTC

danielsamuels wrote: post #108

I tried this out for a couple of weeks after the "Adblock makes things slower" article came out, and I found it was blocking more stuff - but not necessarily the right stuff. I was finding that sites were breaking, stuff was disappearing and it was because of uBlock. I think I was trying to log into Medium and the Twitter and Facebook had been hidden, literally breaking the functionality of the site. That's not what…

Post by wampus » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 1:55 PM UTC

fpgaminer wrote: post #105

Drakim wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the resource names are still "static" your resources can still be blocked. But if they are altered slightly every time, you may also thwart caching, right?

Right, which is why I added the bit about salting the URIs before encryption. The salt could be per request, per session, or rotated after some period of time (say once per day). If only rotated once per day, it would still thwart ad blocking, but have less of an impact on caching. It would turn into an economic question of whether the extra ad impressions are worth the extra bandwidth.

Post by JohnTHaller » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 1:57 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #94

JohnTHaller wrote: post #83

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.

Counter opinion: I like the number because if there's a website working not quite right, I can easily see the number and disable uBlock to test out if that's the cause.