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An update on uBlock
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Re: An update on uBlock
#22Cue the YouTube video of Michael Scott saying "No God, please no. Noooo!" uBlock was the AdBlock when AdBlock sold out. Now who will be the uBlock now that uBlock has sold out? And this is separate to uBlock Origin, right?
uBlock Origin is the uBlock.
A few years ago, back when uBlock Origin was just uBlock, gorhill (it's sole developer at the time) entrusted the uBlock development to what was supposed to be a community effort. Instead a single developer took over and essentially did nothing with the extension except place donation links to himself in the extension and on the website.
It didn't take long until gorhill himself noticed and decided to pick development back up - under the new name of uBlock Origin. To this date uBlock has barely seen any development while uBlock Origin is actively maintained.
You can find gorhill's reaction on Twitter https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1019975271443771392
Re: An update on uBlock
#23There appears to be so much confusion in this thread about whether or not this involves the open source uBlock Origin. uBlock Origin should seriously consider rebranding to distance itself from the commercial uBlock.
Re: An update on uBlock
#24deleted
Your phrasing is a bit awkward. Just to avoid confusion, Raymond Hill is the original developer, some other fellow took over the uBlock project.
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#25Self-hosted DNS solution with an easy setup and a nice web GUI to manage it. https://pi-hole.net/ https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole
Pi-hole has made some pretty poor blocking choices in the past, so use at your own risk.
For instance, they randomly decided to block *.microsoft.com - you can imagine the chaos that caused.
Re: An update on uBlock
#26I'm using uBlock Origin and get uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading: https://www.ublock.org/announcement/ Because of the following filter ||ublock.org^$document Found in: uBlock filters – Badware risks
There seems to be lots of confusion around this topic.
gorhill is the original author of uBlock, but when he handed the project off to someone else, he found that they didn't live up to ethical standards, which is why gorhill started uBlock Origin. That other person owns ublock.org, so it makes sense to filter that domain.
Re: An update on uBlock
#27A good solution I've found for ad blocking is using the following hosts file: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Which sinkholes every known ad/malicious domain. It's been pretty useful, and it hasn't broken nothing important yet.
I've been using http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm anyone know how they compare? (reading github description, seems it includes this as a source, but also others)
A quick line count shows that the file from your link has 14354 entries, while the one on the github repo has 65357.
Re: An update on uBlock
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why doesn't ublock origin change its name to something else to avoid this confusion?
Well, isn't that moot since UBlock (not origin) will probably now be called AdBlock?
I rather doubt that, as much of uBlock non-Origin's userbase is comprised of people who installed it by accident instead of uBlock Origin. Its only real value is in its name.
Re: An update on uBlock
#29Re: An update on uBlock
#30https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-is-comp...
uBlock origin also blocks the article site