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Note the difference between μBlock and μBlock Origins.
They've both dropped the mu have are now just uBlock/uBlock Origin
Which I hate — it was so much cleverer when it was μBlock.
Adblock Plus now sells ads
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Re: Adblock Plus now sells ads
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever watched American TV? This reads like someone who turned on Bravo at 2PM one time and decided all TV must be like that.
I have lived (and still do) in Canada and spent the past 18 years with access to the full suite of channels that American TV has to offer. It is largely the only TV I have access to (though not solely because I still have the internet after all). In the past couple of years I've limited my consumption to the point of avoiding it because it has become so bad.
Ok, your edit makes more sense. I agree that American TV has way too much advertising and is the worst on that front compared to many other countries. I think your original comment was downvoted because it was just a handful of stereotypes with not much relation to reality.
Also, the shows themselves are generally quite good, it's just the networks that suck. When many Americans think of TV they're thinking of HBO and Netflix and friends, so advertising isn't such a big deal.
Re: Adblock Plus now sells ads
#123Why don't more people use hosts files and apps like gas mask to switch them?
They're useful on devices that don't support browser addons or on local DNS servers, like home routers
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#124uBlock Origin it is! Extensions: Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/ Microsoft Edge: https://github.com/nikrolls/uBlock-Edge#microsoft-edge
Thanks! Was just wondering about the availability for Edge. ...not that Edge isn't hilariously un-fun to use, even with an adblocker...
As someone who regularly uses a Surface Pro 3 without the keyboard attached (it's become my default couch computer), Edge is the only Windows browser I've found that's touch-friendly, so it remains the main browser I use on that machine.
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#125No such thing as an acceptable ad.
Then pay for content. Ads are how people who provide free content make money. Yes, they are often offensive (visually, not necessarily the content), slow to load, and contain or utilize some of tracker or retargeting mechanism. But if you can remove those and you basically just have a PNG telling you about a product or service, that is the very definition of acceptable. But to freely consume content from someone (whe…
I'll decide what code runs on my system thank you. At this point ad blocking is part of a defence in depth against malware.
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>> "I believe that advertisements are neurotoxins, and nobody has the right to poison me." And you have no right to the content you're viewing but blocking ads on. If you really consider ads 'poison' surely boycotting sites that use ads is the solution or offering an alternative solution this is actually viable.
When watching TV, I often switch away when the ads come. Then after a few minutes I switch back to continue watching the program. Do you think this behavior is also unacceptable? Or how do you feel about people who throw away promotional stuff found in magazines and newspapers?
My issue isn't really with ad-blocking. It's with people like the parent who act like it's a human rights violation but still take the content and don't offer an alternative. If you feel so strongly about it boycott companies showing you ads.
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I block ads because they're annoying and I resent being sold something constantly. I have no qualms doing it because what I choose to do with the HTML I freely receive from a server on my own private computer is no one else's business. If websites want to force me to view ads, they can get me to sign a contract and compensate me for it.
I block ads because my niches are small enough communities that I only see ads about the last thing I googled And that's annoying in more ways than one, being reminded so blatantly that you are being tracked well enough to identify individually
Use startpage.com. I only ever use Google for image searches now.
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That fits my definition of acceptable. I, we, aren't blind to people's need to make money for the time and effort. But we don't want 50% clickbait video poppin up randomly. Same for battery life, etc etc. No JS. With some fixed not too screamy image smartly positionned, I'd never block ads. I don't get the logic behind these ads. They really think that shouting red stuff at my face will make me spend time and money ?…
> They really think that shouting red stuff at my face will make me spend time and money ? Much like SPAM, they wouldn't pay for it if it didn't work. Unfortunately.
Yeah, stupid me, I bet the ROI is good enough otherwise they'd stop.
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#129uBlock Origin it is! Extensions: Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/ Microsoft Edge: https://github.com/nikrolls/uBlock-Edge#microsoft-edge
Also, look at blocking DNS as an alternative to in-browser blocking: http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman
I use this source, which seems to be a pretty good aggregation of several hosts file sources: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Re: Adblock Plus now sells ads
#130AdBlock has: * AdBlock * AdBlock Plus * AdBlock Ultimate, now AdBlocker Ultimate uBlock has: * uBlock * uBlock Origin ...and I can never tell the difference.
Actually AdBlock Plus was a fork of AdBlock, by a different person, because AdBlock was no longer maintained.
I suspect AdBlock(er) Ultimate is yet another unrelated extension from completely different people.
It's a similar story with uBlock. I think the uBlock dev wanted to stop, handed off dev to someone else who fucked up. So it was forked into uBlock origin.
tl;dr they're all adblocking software from different people, who don't work together.