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uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

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Post by codetrotter »

dizhn wrote: post #8
masfuerte wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is confusing. I find it easier to remember that gorhill is the good guy.

To make things even more confusing gorhill is actually the creator of the original ublock too.

The way that I recall it is like this:

gorhill created uBlock.

After some amount of time gorhill found that the uBlock project was taking up too much of his time.

gorhill handed over the uBlock project to someone else.

That other person or other group of people took the uBlock project in a direction that gorhill did not agree with.

gorhill decided that because of this, he should continue to maintain a version of uBlock.

Thus was born uBlock Origin.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

clircle wrote: post #10

Pro tip: if you are concerned that you are spending too much time reading the internet, just uninstall ublock. You'll be so disgusted by the current state of affairs that you'll want to spend as little time online as possible.

My work does not filter anything ( it won't let me use some websites, but will happily let me see ads for new yard gizmos ) so the few times I actually am forced to look for something on work PC, it is a quick reminder why I bother doing all the things I do.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

#13

Post by Dwedit »

Unfortunately, uMatrix (the other gorhill project) has bad bugs on Firefox.

When you navigate to another page, it will sometimes get the host for a web request wrong, causing it to apply the wrong rules for that request. This can cause you to lose your login cookies. And since uMatrix has been discontinued, so there's no more central repository to collect bug fixes.

A fork is available called nuTensor which does resolve the cookie clearing problem, but I often see hosts that are not part of the current page (they were from the page I was previously viewing) appearing on the grid.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

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Post by pkulak »

jhoelzel wrote: post #6

I can not even thank the existence of this project enough! the simple improvement in internet speed is well worth it, even though i do too have a pihole running. Sometimes when i visits friends i barely recognize sites that i use frequently.

I just run AdGuard Home network wide and have never seen a huge need to run a browser blocker as well. What are you getting out of using both?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

#16

Post by warner25 »

clircle wrote: post #10

Pro tip: if you are concerned that you are spending too much time reading the internet, just uninstall ublock. You'll be so disgusted by the current state of affairs that you'll want to spend as little time online as possible.

Yeah, I've said before that whenever my wife wants to show me something from the web on her laptop, I blown away by how bad it is. The experience in her browser (Chrome with all defaults, usually on ad-supported social media or puzzle or pop culture news sites, or shopping sites) is like being assaulted to me.

Of course the other thing that's been happening is that most of it isn't "reading the internet" anymore; it's all watching short-form videos (also laced with ads).

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

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Post by userabchn »

Dwedit wrote: post #13

Unfortunately, uMatrix (the other gorhill project) has bad bugs on Firefox. When you navigate to another page, it will sometimes get the host for a web request wrong, causing it to apply the wrong rules for that request. This can cause you to lose your login cookies. And since uMatrix has been discontinued, so there's no more central repository to collect bug fixes. A fork is available called nuTensor which does reso…

I believe uMatrix development was discontinued a few years ago, so it is not surprising that it doesn't work reliably anymore.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

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Post by tedivm »

pkulak wrote: post #15
jhoelzel wrote: post #6

I can not even thank the existence of this project enough! the simple improvement in internet speed is well worth it, even though i do too have a pihole running. Sometimes when i visits friends i barely recognize sites that i use frequently.

I just run AdGuard Home network wide and have never seen a huge need to run a browser blocker as well. What are you getting out of using both?

UBO catches things for me that Adguard doesn't, so having both is pretty useful to me.

UBO also blocks harmful elements inside of a page, not just page loads. I've used it to automatically remove the annoying paywalls that are just an element over the text I want to read.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

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Post by rmkrmk »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #14

Does anyone know if there is a way to sync settings/filters across multiple uBlock Origin installations? I use a ton of browsers and find the manual export/import to be a hassle.

I think there’s a setting to enable cloud storage, so as long as you’re logged into Firefox Sync/Chrome it can be synced but has to be triggered manually to sync/merge the filter lists.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

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Post by Arnavion »

baal80spam wrote: post #4
codetrotter wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. Title should be: uBlock Origin 1.48.0 Adds Readiness Status, Code Viewer, and Other Fixes uBlock Origin is the good one

I knew uBlock Origin was "the good one" but I didn't know its repo is called uBlock, it's quite confusing. Can you rename repos in github?

>Can you rename repos in github?

Yes you can, and GH sets up an automatic redirect from the old name to the new name (as long as you don't create a new repo with the old name).

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