uBlock Origin 1.20

Post by user17843 » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 12:52 PM UTC

panta wrote: post #121

aluren wrote: post #54

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…

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…

Post by lunchables » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 12:57 PM UTC

aluren wrote: post #54

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…

Post by ebg13 » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 1:04 PM UTC

vetinari wrote: post #181

elyobo wrote: post #103

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Sounds a lot like what Chrome is bringing in.

Chrome has a limit on the amount of the items in the list. 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.

Post by magashna » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 1:09 PM UTC

Crinus wrote: post #124

nickjj wrote: post #115

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OBS is interesting because not only is it one of the best programs available for what it does (and cross platform to boot, which is huge), but it's also a catalyst for making people an absurd amount of money. Pretty much every top streamer uses it. I wouldn't be surprised if OBS was responsible for generating over $75 million worth of earnings for just the top streamers on Twitch in the last few years, then there's T…

FYI OBS' main developer has a Patreon with $1.4k/month https://www.patreon.com/obsproject and an annual budget (for the entire project) of $90k through OpenCollective https://opencollective.com/obsproject

Post by peteri » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 1:21 PM UTC

AlphaWeaver wrote: post #190

mehrdadn wrote: post #156

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> 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…

I'm almost entirely certain that the storing the Bit locker FDE key in your Microsoft account is an optional choice presented during the BitLocker setup.