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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#101

Post by LegitShady »

leloctai wrote: post #87
codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

Which is a horrible design on Android. Firefox on my (admittedly relatively old) phone take 20s to load the first page when browser start with uBlock enabled. On desktop this is fine as it only happen once a day. But on the phone it happen a lot since apps getting killed is a normal thing.

I don't get this behaviour on Firefox in Android at all.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#102

Post by climb_stealth »

Twirrim wrote: post #32

A nice little Quality Of Life improvement for me with uBlock Origin recently has been using it top block Confluence's pop ups when someone has commented on a page I'm reading. We use Confluence to do document reviews at work, and sitting there attempting to read a document while Confluence is popping up that annoying dialogue box over and over again as people comment on the doc is insanely annoying. With uBlock Origi…

Agreed, I love it for things like this. Someone puts a big bright yellow and red banner on the top of confluence or Jira weeks in advance to notify about upcoming outages. I really couldn't care less about those and it's perfect to get rid of them.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#103

Post by Moldoteck »

leloctai wrote: post #87
codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

Which is a horrible design on Android. Firefox on my (admittedly relatively old) phone take 20s to load the first page when browser start with uBlock enabled. On desktop this is fine as it only happen once a day. But on the phone it happen a lot since apps getting killed is a normal thing.

i'm pretty sure there's an setting/option to disable battery optimization for firefox

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#104

Post by wasmitnetzen »

gruez wrote: post #78
iamacyborg wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot, given the sheer number of network requests a single ad can spawn

"A lot", compared to what? A single household? Probably. As a percentage of overall global electricity consumption? Probably negligible. Some math with conservative estimates: * power consumption of mobile processor: 5W * daily ad use: 1 hour (assume it's 100% cpu for the entire time) * smartphone users: 7.8 billion (world population) Total yearly electricity consumption given the above: 2.8 TWh World electricity con…

You'd have to include the servers doing the auctions, sentiment analysis, profiling,... into it as well. And then the whole ad industry, every email, every meeting, ...

I don't think you can actually put a number on this waste.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#105

Post by wasmitnetzen »

hellotheretoday wrote: post #65
smartusers wrote: post #38

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It's just going to push the smart people with self respect to other platforms. YouTube will then cater to the captive ad tolerant audience that's left and the quality of the whole platform will degrade. More people will leave, the quality will drop, the number of ads will go up, etc. This will reduce the quality of video on YouTube until what you basically have now on reddit: a hot trash fire. Sure you can milk these…

Can that progression even happen anymore? Call me cynical but I think we are long past the days of “the digg migration to Reddit”, “MySpace exodus to Facebook”, leaving vbulletin forums en masse for social media, leaving irc and Usenet for vbulletin forums, etc How could a viable competitor to YouTube even begin to pull away YouTube’s inertia without massive vc funding? That VC would want the platform to eventually e…

It'll go to niche services. Dropout, Nebula, Curiositystream, possibly even Patreon.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#106

Post by erremerre »

danielbln wrote: post #90
leloctai wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is a horrible design on Android. Firefox on my (admittedly relatively old) phone take 20s to load the first page when browser start with uBlock enabled. On desktop this is fine as it only happen once a day. But on the phone it happen a lot since apps getting killed is a normal thing.

My 4 year old S10E does not exhibit this behavior at all (Firefox with uBlock).

S10e was the peak of mobile design.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#107

Post by vasdae »

codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#108

Post by chx »

hellotheretoday wrote: post #70
PeterStuer wrote: post #43

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To be fair Youtube has to make a profit somehow. Ad revenue, direct and/or through profile data collection is easy and effective but the worst businessmodel for human sanity. I like that they at least offer an alternative for the ad viewing part through Youtube premium. I don't know about the US as streaming services seem to have catalogues orders of magnitude more extensive than over here in Europe, but compared to…

YouTube premium pricing is ridiculous. $14 a month for android and $19 a month for iOS? Get out of here How much could they possibly make from ads in a given month off a single user. Best case scenario with a user that watches YouTube like 4 hours a day 6 days a week and clicks through once every week. $4? Probably not even that. And yet somehow YouTube premium needs to be almost $230 a year for apple users? I bet th…

Especially when you consider you could VPN to Turkey and get it for 1.15 USD a month, if you do it for five people then it's 0.46 USD per Youtube Premium account. https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/14mwf6h/how_to_enjoy_y...

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#109

Post by erremerre »

jenadine wrote: post #23
all2 wrote: post #12

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This. I've pretty much stopped using YouTube since the adblocker blocker shut me out. I figure it's a good time to kick a bad habit. :D

I'm not seeing any YouTube adds. I'm using ublock origin with firefox and didn't do anything special. What YouTube adds are everyone talking about?

In my experience, it ahs not been hitting super users. But somehow they have been targeting people with adblock installed by someone else.

My parents both have been targeted and had to instruct them on how to refresh the quick updates, which has not been easy.

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