UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released • Hacker News Board

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by ERD0L » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 5:38 PM UTC

mamcx wrote: post #128

WeAreGoingIn wrote: post #10

The first plugin I install on a freshly installed system with Firefox is uBO. After that I harden the browser by changing stuff in about:config. Chrome has never been an option for us with privacy in focus. The guys behind uBO should get some price or something.

One thing that block my migration to firefox is the zoom thing. In chrome I can zoom pages and it stick (I need bigger fonts everywhere). Can't replicate the same with safari or firefox.

this isn't true on safari. On preferences > web sites > zoom, you can see the zoom level that you choose for each sites

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by catacombs » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 5:47 PM UTC

WeAreGoingIn wrote: post #10

The first plugin I install on a freshly installed system with Firefox is uBO. After that I harden the browser by changing stuff in about:config. Chrome has never been an option for us with privacy in focus. The guys behind uBO should get some price or something.

> Chrome has never been an option for us with privacy in focus.

You can use ungoogled-chrome.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by johnchristopher » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 5:56 PM UTC

WeAreGoingIn wrote: post #10

The first plugin I install on a freshly installed system with Firefox is uBO. After that I harden the browser by changing stuff in about:config. Chrome has never been an option for us with privacy in focus. The guys behind uBO should get some price or something.

What about chromium? (just found out today that there are APK for it :).

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by Tsubasachan » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 6:21 PM UTC

elcomet wrote: post #114

Tsubasachan wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The maintainer of Ublock Origin does not want to make money from this. He does not want Ublock to turn into Adblock Plus. If there is no money involved the project cannot be bribed by ad tech. The only acceptable ads are the ones the user white lists.

The point is to make money from the users, not from advertising companies, which is the opposite of adblock. He could still refuse ads by ad tech, I don't see how donations by users would force him.

Money corrupts. The tech sector is living proof at that.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by mamcx » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

ERD0L wrote: post #131

mamcx wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing that block my migration to firefox is the zoom thing. In chrome I can zoom pages and it stick (I need bigger fonts everywhere). Can't replicate the same with safari or firefox.

this isn't true on safari. On preferences > web sites > zoom, you can see the zoom level that you choose for each sites

Oh! this is new? Because it look like it work well!

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by mapl » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 6:55 PM UTC

nathcd wrote: post #78

One third-party filter list for uBO that I absolutely love is Web Annoyances Ultralist: https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances , for unsticking fixed headers, floating boxes, and elements like that. I also use uBO for injecting my own styles on pages, like adding an absolute timestamp to github: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15743008

I wonder if we see it on mobile platforms someday. Not having a norootneeded adblocker on android or ios is very sad

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by yourduskquibble » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 7:27 PM UTC

mapl wrote: post #136

nathcd wrote: post #78

One third-party filter list for uBO that I absolutely love is Web Annoyances Ultralist: https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances , for unsticking fixed headers, floating boxes, and elements like that. I also use uBO for injecting my own styles on pages, like adding an absolute timestamp to github: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15743008

I wonder if we see it on mobile platforms someday. Not having a norootneeded adblocker on android or ios is very sad

> I wonder if we see it on mobile platforms someday. Not having a norootneeded adblocker on android or ios is very sad

Not sure if this is what you mean exactly, but uBlock Origin (as well as a lot of other Firefox extensions) can be installed[1] on Firefox for Android.[2]

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-origin...

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/mobile/

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by elcomet » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 7:41 PM UTC

Tsubasachan wrote: post #134

elcomet wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point is to make money from the users, not from advertising companies, which is the opposite of adblock. He could still refuse ads by ad tech, I don't see how donations by users would force him.

Money corrupts. The tech sector is living proof at that.

That's exactly the point. You want to be financially independent, or at least earn enough to live to reduce the risk of being corrupted by ad tech money.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by matt4077 » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 8:36 PM UTC

casefields wrote: post #121

shaki-dora wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Safari now has excellent privacy features, so I just don’t block ads, allowing the people creating the content I consume to, you know, eat .

Oh god. Think of the advertisers everyone. If it weren’t for us accepting ads into our lives, they would look like those Yemini’s in the New York Times.[0] Don’t use hyperbole if you want to be taken seriously. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/26/world/middlee...

Don’t use outrage if you want to misunderstand metaphors.

Re: UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

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Post by kovach » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

mamcx wrote: post #128

WeAreGoingIn wrote: post #10

The first plugin I install on a freshly installed system with Firefox is uBO. After that I harden the browser by changing stuff in about:config. Chrome has never been an option for us with privacy in focus. The guys behind uBO should get some price or something.

One thing that block my migration to firefox is the zoom thing. In chrome I can zoom pages and it stick (I need bigger fonts everywhere). Can't replicate the same with safari or firefox.

In Firefox the zoom levels are saved per website. It has had that feature for a long time. Or do you want to zoom once and have it zoomed on all websites you visit?