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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by tyingq »

arpanetus wrote: post #82
Already__Taken wrote: post #59

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If you want your Chrome to be as fast as possible, you would get rid of all extensions you have. It doesn't matter even if it's an adblock atp. Hence calling it a feature, not a bug is rather misleading. Since you went and installed plugins understanding that it might and it will affect your workflow.

> It doesn't matter even if it's an adblock atp

Pre-manifest V3, when OnBeforeRequest actually blocked requests before they were downloaded, browsing typical sites with it enabled was objectively faster than with it off. Any overhead was pretty quickly recovered in not downloading the ads.

Many benchmarks proved that. Here's one: https://whatsoftware.com/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-fo...

So, unless you're browsing exclusively all ad-free sites, it very much DOES matter, or used to.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by flohofwoe »

Daviey wrote: post #89
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

Oddly, I had the soft warning first.. then 3 views until blocked warning... and now, nothing. Working like it did before. Strange. I don't feel relaxed yet, but it seems they back-off if you hold-out, for now.

It's randomly on and off for me since a couple of weeks.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#133

Post by gruez »

wasmitnetzen wrote: post #104
gruez wrote: post #78

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"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.

>You'd have to include the servers doing the auctions, sentiment analysis, profiling,... into it as well.

Feel free to put up an estimate then.

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

Well that just makes it clear you're only interested in your feelings/vibes as opposed to anything objective.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#134

Post by ploum »

skrebbel wrote: post #76
haunter wrote: post #74

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Why did you make a new account just for this comment?

Some people have a weird habit of creating a throwaway account for every comment they make, no matter how mundane. I’m not sure what the rationale is, something privacy-ish i guess?

could it be automated?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#135

Post by RileyJames »

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…

I thought chromium was open source?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#136

Post by ploum »

gruez wrote: post #133
wasmitnetzen wrote: post #104

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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.

>You'd have to include the servers doing the auctions, sentiment analysis, profiling,... into it as well. Feel free to put up an estimate then. >I don't think you can actually put a number on this waste. Well that just makes it clear you're only interested in your feelings/vibes as opposed to anything objective.

You have to include the fact that the very clear objective of advertising is to make you consume more. Thus producing more pollution than if there were no ads.

So, even if advertising was technically neutral (which is clearly not the case), it would still be an ecological cataclysm.

One would even argue that the whole climate emergency is created by our advertise/consume culture.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#137

Post by Justsignedup »

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…

Ad nauseum solves this. Sure you get tracked but you also send all the wrong signals.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#138

Post by uxcolumbo »

MandieD wrote: post #113
shiroiuma wrote: post #91

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Perhaps a gigantic status of him standing over a harbor? Or a national holiday? We should also not forget to give accolades to the heroic people who tirelessly maintain the filter lists.

Accolades and money - Mr. Gorhill asks us to consider donating to the filter list maintainers instead if we want to give money to uBO.

Do you have a link or is this donating to each individual?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by eru »

gruez wrote: post #133
wasmitnetzen wrote: post #104

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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.

>You'd have to include the servers doing the auctions, sentiment analysis, profiling,... into it as well. Feel free to put up an estimate then. >I don't think you can actually put a number on this waste. Well that just makes it clear you're only interested in your feelings/vibes as opposed to anything objective.

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

To give a really simple upper limit: 36.8 billion tonnes per year. Because that's the current total global CO2 emissions per year. And we can be pretty sure that ads are less than that, or at least not more.

I agree with your assessment of the grandparent comment.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#140

Post by eru »

alkonaut wrote: post #129
trumpeta wrote: post #128

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I'd still rather stare at a blank screen for 20s than view the ads.

Sure, but that doesn't sound like something people would install an ad blocker to achieve...

I often open videos in the background, and watch them later. So this would work perfectly well here.
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