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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 ycombinete »

zwog wrote: post #87
ycombinete wrote: post #37

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Is Adguard better than Pihole? I always thought that adguard were baddies, but maybe I’m conlflating them with another product…

Maybe you are confusing AdGuard with AdBlockPlus? The latter[1] and the parent company Eyeo GmbH have some points of criticism. AdGuard is basically pi-hole, just with different pre-configured filter lists and especially child and parental control settings. IIRC, some services can also be blocked there directly, Instagram for example. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversies

This is exactly what happened! Thank you for clearing that up.

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

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Post by midoridensha »

humaniania wrote: post #97
throitallaway wrote: post #48

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A concrete example here is YouTube. I also run AdGuard Home, but that does nothing for YouTube ads. Firefox + uBlock kills them.

$12/mo to remove ads with YouTube Premium

Or save $144/year and just install UBO in 10 seconds.

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

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Post by midoridensha »

vuln wrote: post #59
warner25 wrote: post #55

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I've offered, but she declined. She really likes sales and coupon offers, extensions for cash-back that are based on tracking, etc. Someone else said it best about their spouse on another thread: "...whenever a website doesn't work for any reason I get an earfull about my 'damn adblocker'..." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30150762

x3 "I like the ads." - Wife

And this is exactly why I don't feel bad about blocking ads and not purchasing YouTube Premium and the like. There are zillions of people out there who actually like looking at all these annoying ads, so the advertisers don't need to bother me when I'm not going to buy their crap anyway, and these other ad-lovers will happily do so.

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

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Post by rasz »

charcircuit wrote: post #78
foepys wrote: post #5

I somewhat wished that when Chrome switches to manifest v3, uBlock Origin would stop supporting Chrome and its clones. Firefox is the only browser where uBlock Origin is actually working as intended, Chrome on the other hand (even in manifest v2) is blocking so many features that uBO isn't actually able to work as a privacy and anti-malware tool. CNAME uncloaking is essential because websites can counter any filter r…

>CNAME uncloaking is essential >Chrome doesn't have an API for that. It rolled out a year ago. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=115104... >Chrome because Chrome doesn't allow extensions to use wasm. Chrome doesn't allow loading remote web assembly in mv3 extentions. You can't run remote javascript either. It's fine if you bundle the wasm with your extension.

>remote javascript

When Google says "remote" they really mean "remote to Google". You cant execute any of your own code from local drive, everything must be controlled by Google.

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

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Post by petodo »

yieldcrv wrote: post #80
petodo wrote: post #65

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anyone visiting HN should be able to install Bypass paywalls chrome clean and uBlock origin

none of which work for the default mobile browser, or those service's associated mobile apps and there's an experience beyond archive.is moving on

HN crowd is unable to install non-default browser? Firefox and Kiwi browser both sorry extensions including these two

not sure what has archive.is to do with extensions I mentioned

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

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Post by charcircuit »

postalrat wrote: post #108
charcircuit wrote: post #78

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>CNAME uncloaking is essential >Chrome doesn't have an API for that. It rolled out a year ago. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=115104... >Chrome because Chrome doesn't allow extensions to use wasm. Chrome doesn't allow loading remote web assembly in mv3 extentions. You can't run remote javascript either. It's fine if you bundle the wasm with your extension.

Loading remote wasm after installing should be allowed. Your extension would still need bindings in javascript for whatever the wasm is doing.

Just knowing the bindings isn't enough to be able to classify a wasm file as being malicious.

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

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Post by charcircuit »

rasz wrote: post #114
charcircuit wrote: post #78

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>CNAME uncloaking is essential >Chrome doesn't have an API for that. It rolled out a year ago. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=115104... >Chrome because Chrome doesn't allow extensions to use wasm. Chrome doesn't allow loading remote web assembly in mv3 extentions. You can't run remote javascript either. It's fine if you bundle the wasm with your extension.

>remote javascript When Google says "remote" they really mean "remote to Google". You cant execute any of your own code from local drive, everything must be controlled by Google.

How can a malware scan be effective if all the code can't be scanned? Imagine if antimalware only scanned exe files and ignored dll files.

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

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Post by feydaykyn »

unity1001 wrote: post #69
shoffmeister wrote: post #34

uBlock Origin is what makes the Internet usable. I am saddened that I do not know how to best express my gratitude towards gorhill, and the filter list maintainers, for their incredibly valuable, tireless work, so "Thank you, so, so much!" will have to do here. It's only thanks to uBlock Origin, I believe, that my parents (of rather old age) are able to make positive use of the Internet. A world without uBlock Origin…

> I do not know how to best express my gratitude towards gorhill Them opening a Patreon and you patronizing them would work great. And ensure the continuity of the project.

Gorhill has clearly said he won't accept money for this project, Cf the project Readme : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

I wish I could repay in some way the happiness this extension is bringing me though

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

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Post by MandieD »

throitallaway wrote: post #52
gorhill wrote: post #25

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This is an auxiliary tool, it does not affect uBO's efficiency when not using the auxiliary tools (logger, viewers, etc.) You won't find a leaner content blocker than uBO CPU- and memory-wise, by quite a good margin, and this new auxiliary tool changes nothing about this. Being a volunteer filter list maintainer is a thankless and time-consuming task, and when I myself investigate filter issues, I repeatedly have to…

You help make the Internet more usable and less dangerous for countless people every day. This isn't to mention the real world impact of less power usage due to fewer assets being transferred and rendered (or executed.) Thank you!

I’ve never thought of it that way before, but between all the blocked ad payloads, cryptominers, and other malware that uBlock Origin stops from going onto millions of PCs every day, gorhill is probably one of the world’s greatest individual fighters of climate change.
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