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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by leloctai »

Moldoteck wrote: post #103
leloctai wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'm pretty sure there's an setting/option to disable battery optimization for firefox

In fact there are multiple switches you have to turn, however I've made sure to check all of them.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

#152

Post by malka »

Justsignedup wrote: post #137
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.

Ad nauseam is "weirdly" banned from the chrome store. Guess it hurts them :)

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by leloctai »

Sander_Marechal wrote: post #126
leloctai wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

IIRC there's a setting for that in UBo (look for pre-fetching)

I'm already allowing prefetching

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by pcdoodle »

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

This works for me too having my youtube account logged in.

Steps: click the U icon, click the gear, click filter list, click Purge, click Update.

Ads are gone again while logged in. You might have to do it again every now and then.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by demondemidi »

jchook wrote: post #54
beej71 wrote: post #16

"uBO works best on Firefox". I can't say I'm totally shocked that getting it working better under Chrome is somehow more difficult.

Chrome now aggressively blocks ad blockers on YouTube.com

What triggers this? I use adnauseum on Firefox and I haven’t seen a YouTube blocker warning in weeks. Not sure why it is so intermittent.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by mopenstein »

beej71 wrote: post #19
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

I'm trying Grayjay, which works great, and I've noticed one big thing: it doesn't keep showing me an endless stream of stuff to keep me on the site. It just shows my subs and a handful of suggestions. As a consequence, my time spent on the site is way down, and the time I do spend is higher quality material. But I'm with you. There's no way I'm watching an ad on YT. If they figure out how to only stream with unblocka…

>If they figure out how to only stream with unblockable ads, I will never visit the site again

That's their goal. If you're not earning them money, they don't want you. You don't exist to them and you not watching their ads/videos is no threat at all.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by demondemidi »

archo wrote: post #2

uBlock Origin is a recommended extension[1] Recommended extensions undergo full code review by staff security experts to provide a strong additional security check. [1] - https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/extensions-addo... uBlock Origin – Wiki : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki

I’m really surprised 1Password isn’t recommended.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by nathansherburn »

janpio wrote: post #92
Twirrim wrote: post #32

A nice little Quality Of Life improvement for me with uBlock Origin recently has been using it top block Confluence's pop ups when someone has commented on a page I'm reading. We use Confluence to do document reviews at work, and sitting there attempting to read a document while Confluence is popping up that annoying dialogue box over and over again as people comment on the doc is insanely annoying. With uBlock Origi…

GitHub notifications blue dot for me. Not seeing it makes me click that button much less, only when I _want_ to handle notifications.

Thank you! I can't believe I never thought to do this!

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by boudin »

leloctai wrote: post #148
boudin wrote: post #127

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And my 7 years old oneplus 3T neither

Do you mind sharing your ubo settings?

Just the default one plus french list in regional settings. To be fair though, I had a tablet from the same time but it was way cheaper than this phone, specifically having way less ram and firefox was not really usable.
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