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Safari lets extensions precompile a list of patterns to block and then it does the actual blocking. The extension never sees your browsing history or network requests.
Sounds a lot like what Chrome is bringing in.
Originally, Google wanted to max at 30k items, but after the outry, they increased it to 150k.
For comparison, my uBlock has currently 101k of net filters and 49k cosmetic filters.
I am dumbfounded that uBlock Origin, arguably the single most important extension in modern web browsing, and one that makes millions of lives easier by making their web experience bearable at all, all of this depends on one single person, working for free. Now there's also the list maintainers, who also work for free. Still makes you wonder about how the world works. There's probably many other similar instances. In…
> and we shouldn't take anything they do for granted. You can say that again "Ublock collaborators gorhill and Deathamns leave the project" (2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9308439
If anything, the split was because one of the uBlock contributors tried to monetize it for his own benefit only.
I am dumbfounded that uBlock Origin, arguably the single most important extension in modern web browsing, and one that makes millions of lives easier by making their web experience bearable at all, all of this depends on one single person, working for free. Now there's also the list maintainers, who also work for free. Still makes you wonder about how the world works. There's probably many other similar instances. In…
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If the WSL is the only reason windows is a decent development workstation, then why not just use Linux in the first place? What unique factor is Windows offering here?
In a word, drivers. We’ve come a long way since the dark days of the 90s, but hardware support on Linux still lags far, far behind Windows. This shows up in all sorts of ways on a daily basis. Graphics drivers, I’m looking at you Nvidia, are noticeably buggier and slower. Lots of little random errors crop up that are simply unfixable because the hardware mfr isn’t interested. Example: My USB controller resets itself…
This is no different than with windows. Except that more vendors sell you windows compatible pre-built systems. With macos the situation is far worse.
If you want more Linux enables hardware it will help to vote with your wallet and buy hardware from manufacturers that do provide support for Linux.
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They're more likely to outlaw adblocking than they are outlaw advertising. Frankly I fear we're nearing the end of a golden age, where those in the know have an incredibly easy time blocking ads with a simple extension while our content providers are funded by the ignorant tech commoners watching ads. I don't want a future where ads are baked right into the YouTube video stream and articles refuse to load until they…
The funding to produce the media people want to consume has to come from somewhere. If it’s not baked into the video stream, it will be baked into the video itself, aka product placement. Watch any new movie or TV show, and it’s unbearable to see the videography just to catch a car logo or drink logo. Shame. There’s even been full on descriptions by the actors of a car’s features, basically a commercial within the di…
here the state law defines ANY unauthorized access to any computer system as felony, that includes snooping unsecured systems or MANIPULATING FUNCTIONALITY.
I am dumbfounded that uBlock Origin, arguably the single most important extension in modern web browsing, and one that makes millions of lives easier by making their web experience bearable at all, all of this depends on one single person, working for free. Now there's also the list maintainers, who also work for free. Still makes you wonder about how the world works. There's probably many other similar instances. In…
We should also thank Firefox for having adblockers at the time when Chrome was released. Otherwise Google wouldn't have felt the need to add an adblocker extension API in the first place. Having adblocker extensions was one of the things that allowed Google to get Firefox users to switch at the time. Ever wonder why Mobile Chrome doesn't have extensions or adblockers? Because it didn't have to compete with Firefox to…
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Yes, this. uBlock Origin seems to have ~15 million active users between Chrome and Firefox (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock_Origin ). If it only spared us 10 seconds a day on average (probably a super conservative estimate), it would save the equivalent of an average human life (~70yrs) every 15 days! (And given that probably at least 70% of users don't use an ad blocker, it's infuriating to…
Try to watch a playlist on Youtube without a add blocker. Its insane the length and amount of commercials. A add blocker save you much more then 10 secs a day.
I am dumbfounded that uBlock Origin, arguably the single most important extension in modern web browsing, and one that makes millions of lives easier by making their web experience bearable at all, all of this depends on one single person, working for free. Now there's also the list maintainers, who also work for free. Still makes you wonder about how the world works. There's probably many other similar instances. In…
My guess is if he were to start accepting donations he could do it full-time as his main job. Guess he doesn't want that.
Maybe he could make $thousands per month spending serious time on self-marketing begging effort, but I wouldn't blame him if he wasn't interested in that
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> and we shouldn't take anything they do for granted. You can say that again "Ublock collaborators gorhill and Deathamns leave the project" (2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9308439
This is the whole reason why we have uBlock "Origin" and not (only) "uBlock". If anything, the split was because one of the uBlock contributors tried to monetize it for his own benefit only. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
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Isn't the surveillance/telemetry problem still as much of a problem as it was on day zero? As far as I know, it hasn't been removed nor lessened. As far as I remember, it is absolutely overreaching, collecting your name, email address, browsing history, searches, application usage and more. Microsoft also keeps a copy of your full-disk encryption key. " rel="nofollow">https://theintercept.com/2015/12/28/recently-boug…
> As far as I know, it hasn't been removed nor lessened. IIRC they lessened it by some ε > 0 in 1803. [1] > As far as I remember, it is absolutely overreaching, collecting your name, email address, browsing history, searches, application usage and more. Some of these seem more alarming than others. Where are each of these pulled from? If you have a Microsoft account they already have your name and address. Most peopl…