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Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

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Post by bmcd87 »

mintplant wrote: post #56
webwanderings wrote: post #52

µBlock or Ghostery, whoever comes up with the tool to block garbage on mobile devices (preferably Chrome), will be a winner!

Ghostery supports Firefox for Android [1]. For µBlock, there are two tickets open on GitHub [2,3] about Firefox for Android support. Unfortunately, Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions [4]. But if you have a rooted device, you can block ads/trackers/etc. across all apps via AdAway [5], which manages a custom HOSTS file for you. [1] https://www.ghostery.com/en/download [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/is…

(Disclaimer: I'm a Ghostery developer)

In addition to the extension working on Firefox for Android, Ghostery has it's own browser:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostery.a...

It's pretty new and has some key features that are still in development, but it's getting there.

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

#62

Post by gorhill »

KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #58
gorhill wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using EasyPrivacy results in piwik being blocked, yes, regardless whether EasyPrivacy is used in uBlock, ABP, or whatever other blocker. I suggested you to bring the issue to EasyPrivacy maintainers if you think it's wrong[1], but by all appearances your grudge is solely aimed at uBlock. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/564#issuecomment-70...

Easy privacy also blocks pusher.com which is used by thousands of sites for realtime stuff. It's far too aggressive and should not be on by default.

> which is used by thousands of sites

That's probably the reason it is in EasyPrivacy.

In EasyPrivacy, I see: "||stats.pusher.com^"

When I put "stats.pusher.com" in the browser address bar, I get a page which only says, in plain text:

> Pusher client stats collection service

"stats.pusher.com" is also present in MVPS and hpHosts.

Edit:

The stats.pusher.com issue was brought to EasyPrivacy maintainer: https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=20744

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

#64

Post by imthatgirl_08 »

Please someome help me! I figured out that through my internet/WiFi my boyfriends laptop has full rights over my phone, cable and the WiFi. All my app versions are version 1 basically and tons of 3rd party restrictions. My bing,Google,Facebook,yahoo,comcast, Microsoft,Outlook and whatever you can name redirects all websites and emails I've figured out everything but not 100 prevent how to get it off completely. I know why he did this "late night get it in sessions" I don't really care I can't even get email through Comcast sending me my bill I can't use my phone this sucks someone please help me I'll do anything just please email me @ sarajoannbedrocks11@gmail.com thank you

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

#65

Post by [deleted] »

bhouston wrote: post #19
bsilvereagle wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Piwki would be fine if it was hosted on a subdomain of the first party domain. If you visit test.com, piwki.test.com would work. However, piwik.not-test.com would be blocked.

Last time I check piwik is always blocked no matter the host.

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Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

#66

Post by imthatgirl_08 »

Please someome help me! I figured out that through my internet/WiFi my boyfriends laptop has full rights over my phone, cable and the WiFi. All my app versions are version 1 basically and tons of 3rd party restrictions. My bing,Google,Facebook,yahoo,comcast, Microsoft,Outlook and whatever you can name redirects all websites and emails I've figured out everything but not 100 prevent how to get it off completely. I know why he did this "late night get it in sessions" I don't really care I can't even get email through Comcast sending me my bill I can't use my phone this sucks someone please help me I'll do anything just please email me @ sarajoannbedrocks11@gmail.com thank you

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

#67

Post by webwanderings »

bmcd87 wrote: post #61
mintplant wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ghostery supports Firefox for Android [1]. For µBlock, there are two tickets open on GitHub [2,3] about Firefox for Android support. Unfortunately, Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions [4]. But if you have a rooted device, you can block ads/trackers/etc. across all apps via AdAway [5], which manages a custom HOSTS file for you. [1] https://www.ghostery.com/en/download [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/is…

(Disclaimer: I'm a Ghostery developer) In addition to the extension working on Firefox for Android, Ghostery has it's own browser: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostery.a... It's pretty new and has some key features that are still in development, but it's getting there.

Hey, I'm like millions of those lay users who do not have rooted mobile devices.

WRT Firefox, it does not play nicely with Google services, like Gmail. WRT, browsers...I have tried many of them under the sun and all of them have a consistent disadvantage over Google, that is, speed.

I've got many lay users friends who still look for an Ad blocker out of the box, for their mobile devices. I have hope from Ghostery and uBlock makers, fingers crossed.

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

#68

Post by ndesaulniers »

cantlin wrote: post #53

As the author was kind enough to pick us as an example, here's some background on what some of those requests are doing. hits.theguardian.com points to our Omniture implementation, which is the main tracking suite used for macro-level reporting (like when we say we have X unique monthly browsers, or whatever). So if you want to be invisible to that, leave it blocked. ophan.theguardian.com points to our own analytics…

> It would be cute if there was some way of us hinting to the plugin which domains were needed to not break the site

No advertiser or site looking to cash in on ads would abuse that.

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

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Post by mmebane »

Does uBlock provide any way to write shims/surrogates? Sites often break because they just can't deal with certain JS libraries being missing, but there are many cases where it looks like just providing a stub implementation would be enough.
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