uBlock Origin 1.50.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by ncr100 » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 4:41 PM UTC

EscapeFromNY wrote: post #34

I understand why gorhill doesn't ask for donations, but I still wish there was some sneaky way I could send him some money anyway.

I am left feeling awful about Money, Advertisement, False promises after modestly exploring this.

I also wanted to support financially - and after seeking to support, and encountering the misleading "ublock dot org" (called-out as unrelated on github.com/gorhill/ublock - where it claims Chris Aljoudi of CO seeks $$$ for gorhill's project) I feel terrible.

I'll let my feelings drive my action here, and not continue seeking to support.

ublock github is the best desktop ad blocker.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 4:41 PM UTC

EscapeFromNY wrote: post #34

I understand why gorhill doesn't ask for donations, but I still wish there was some sneaky way I could send him some money anyway.

Don't forget blocklist maintainers. Their work is just as valuable as the actual adblocker — without them, it would be mostly useless. I checked mine and none of them seem to be accepting donations, but yours might.

edit: actually, several massive lists are maintained by AdGuard, who do have a way to throw money at them.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by ncr100 » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 4:42 PM UTC

politician wrote: post #2

Is this the good one that isn't the scam? Which ones are the shady ones these days?

searching for github and gorhill will not lead you astray, at the moment, for an authentic ublock

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by Nextgrid » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 4:43 PM UTC

drunkan wrote: post #23

rwaksmunski wrote: post #12

Back in the day Safari + uBlock was one hell of an efficient browser on my macbook. I miss those days.

You can still have that combination with the Orion browser

How good is it on Orion? I remember trying it a while ago and it was very unreliable.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by mixmastamyk » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 4:44 PM UTC

Always wanted to try it, but have used noscript and strict Firefox for a decade. Am often astounded on the two dozen js trackers it doesn’t load on a news site.

Is there a big difference between that and UO? Thought it might be better for regular folks who may not recognize what js needs to be loaded and which is probably superfluous or dangerous.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by kapitanjakc » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 4:47 PM UTC

dlisboa wrote: post #64

danielwmayer wrote: post #28

Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well. For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.

I’m often amazed at how people I know, full internet “power users”, don’t use it and complain about ads. I have never seen an ad in years, not on YouTube or wherever. How do people who build web stuff daily not know about adblocks? It’s so weird to me.

I train people in web, and here's my observation.

Younger generation is comfortable with ads, paying for extra items in their games, purchasing stuff from those ads, installing apps from the ads etc.

They also are comfortable in knowing only their scope of work and they get only that much done.

Older generation people, they very rarely will pay for items in games online, will curse when ads are targeted.

They also tend to work better if they understand overall scenario.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 4:56 PM UTC

bj-rn wrote: post #70

scohesc wrote: post #32

My terminology may be wrong, but I would assume these ad-blockers are great until streaming platforms catch up and embed ads directly into the video stream. Twitch is getting close to that. They directly inject video ads into streams at random times causing you to miss parts of streams. uBlock Origin seemed to have a way around that with some extra setup but it's only a matter of time before it's completely transpare…

There is also sponsorblock (at least for YT): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock

I tried Sponsorblock for a while, mainly for getting all the garbage out of LTT vids. But I ended up turning it off because it always seems to jump a little to soon and a little too far. So it will jump from mid sentence to mid another sentence seemingly out of nowhere, which got to be too disorienting for me. Now I just use it for the little green marker and skip manually.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by digisign » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 4:56 PM UTC

abdusco wrote: post #47

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #35

Now if only I could install this onto my corporate locked-down laptop.

I think you can download portable version of a Chromium-based browser and install any extension you want on it.

Use portable Firefox if possible.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by aendruk » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 5:04 PM UTC

MattyMc wrote: post #49

danielwmayer wrote: post #28

Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well. For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.

I'd love a brief description on how you filter recommended content from youtube.

  youtube.com###related

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by codetrotter » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 5:04 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #108

dlisboa wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not even those professionals, I’m talking people who are highly skilled and trained (CS/Engineering degrees). Like they could tell you off the top of their head HOW to build an adblocker, but they don’t use one themselves. That type of disconnect that is weird to me. People who don’t know any better I can understand.

Maybe they just don't want to. I don't use an adblocker because I'm not bothered by ads. I just don't care enough. The only place where it's actually annoying is YouTube and that's solved by paying for Premium.

I grew up with ads and learned to not pay attention to them.

I still use an ad-blocker on all of my own systems, and on my current company laptop.

But a few years back at a different company I didn’t have any ad blocker installed. This was an office job with a desk and coworkers walking past me all the time.

So at that job I’m having the browser open reading something and one of the older guys is walking past me. He stops dead in his tracks and says jokingly “are you looking at women on company time” and he laughs.

I look at him, confused. Then I look at my screen. Whoops! Next to the content I am reading is a huge ad that is pretty much a soft core porn ad.

Embarrassed I say I didn’t even notice the lady. My coworker chuckles and says “sure”.

But really, I had developed built in blinds in my mind that prevented me from consciously paying attention to ads.

That experience reminded me to always make sure to have adblockers installed.

And of course video ads are annoying no matter what, so having an ad blocker is nice for that as well.

Plus who knows, even if I don’t consiously notice ads my subconscious is probably registering it. So having an ad blocker is nice for this reason as well!