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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by _Algernon_ »

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.

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

Pulling an "estimate" out of your ass isn't exactly any more objective than admitting that attempting to estimate it is futile.

"I know that I know nothing" and all that.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by chakintosh »

squarefoot wrote: post #53
reactordev wrote: post #45

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and for your cpu. Ads are the number one killer of performance.

And money. Metered connections do exist, and ads consume a lot of bandwidth which is not free.

The cognitive load is the worst part of ads for me. The amounts of ads that display an X to close the banner only for that X to be an actual link to another fkn ad or straight up opens a new tab. Not to mention the invisible divs spanning the entire page so wherever you click, it's gonna open a link which is most of time either porn, betting sites or aliexpress. This sh* should be illegal.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by LightHugger »

Already__Taken wrote: post #59
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…

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waiting for ublock improves website performance. there is no design compromise.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by harry_ord »

RileyJames wrote: post #135
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?

Shooting from the hip, here but part of it is. Other parts are closed source from Google or some other group that doesn't share.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by networkchad »

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?

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by reactordev »

ploum wrote: post #136
gruez wrote: post #133

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>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.

careful now, you can't make cents without advertising dollars. (pun)

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by leloctai »

danielbln wrote: post #90
leloctai wrote: post #87

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Which is a horrible design on Android. Firefox on my (admittedly relatively old) phone take 20s to load the first page when browser start with uBlock enabled. On desktop this is fine as it only happen once a day. But on the phone it happen a lot since apps getting killed is a normal thing.

My 4 year old S10E does not exhibit this behavior at all (Firefox with uBlock).

Do you mind sharing your ubo settings?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by zdhgbdthdtv »

Phelinofist wrote: post #130
ekianjo wrote: post #120

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does not work if you are logged in

It does, you just have to purge and then update the filter rules

You are just being lucky. Youtube have been rolling out new adblock filtering globally for the last few weeks.

See https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/31/23940583/youtube-ad-bloc...

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by leloctai »

LegitShady wrote: post #101
leloctai wrote: post #87

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Which is a horrible design on Android. Firefox on my (admittedly relatively old) phone take 20s to load the first page when browser start with uBlock enabled. On desktop this is fine as it only happen once a day. But on the phone it happen a lot since apps getting killed is a normal thing.

I don't get this behaviour on Firefox in Android at all.

Do you mind sharing your ubo settings?
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