The hero we don't deserve.
Raymond Hill is like a 9/10 on the Jesus scale as far as programmers go. He even survived being martyred by that self-serving schemer who gained control of uBlock, before being successfully resurrected as uBlock Origin.
uBlock Origin 1.50.0
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What's the rationale for not accepting donations?
As someone who is neither a lawyer nor an expert, I always wondering if refusing donations gave them less surface area for civil suits from advertising companies for stolen revenue.
How could they complain about stolen revenue? Even if he took donations that doesn't make any sense. He didn't sign an agreement with the advertisers, the page displaying the ads did or the person viewing the page clicked through a "thou shalt not block ads" but that is extremely unlikely to stand up in court plus horrible PR. I know I would personally end any relationship with and boycott any company that pulled that on a regular Joe.
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#213Have they been able to figure out how to continue being effective with the new chrome manifest junk?
There is an experimental version for Chrome that does what it can, but many advertiser/tracker workarounds are not covered. One example is the CNAME trick: the website creates a CNAME subdomain and points it to the advertiser/tracker. I'm not sure what the current status of that is for Chrome (I use Firefox), but it certainly was effective against Manifest V3 blockers at some point.
As-per gorhill: uBlock works best on Firefox.
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I’m often amazed at how people I know, full internet “power users”, don’t use it and complain about ads. I have never seen an ad in years, not on YouTube or wherever. How do people who build web stuff daily not know about adblocks? It’s so weird to me.
> how do people who build web stuff daily not know.. I'll stop it right there. You'd be surprised how many people who build web stuff daily know surprisingly little about how the web actually works or any details aside from that. A surprisingly massive portion of people in tech have learned just enough through bootcamps and youtube videos to accomplish just enough for the specific job they are doing without realizing…
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m often amazed at how people I know, full internet “power users”, don’t use it and complain about ads. I have never seen an ad in years, not on YouTube or wherever. How do people who build web stuff daily not know about adblocks? It’s so weird to me.
> how do people who build web stuff daily not know.. I'll stop it right there. You'd be surprised how many people who build web stuff daily know surprisingly little about how the web actually works or any details aside from that. A surprisingly massive portion of people in tech have learned just enough through bootcamps and youtube videos to accomplish just enough for the specific job they are doing without realizing…
This is why AI can replace programmers.
Not the 10% who are actually good but everyone else. BUT AI ISN'T CREATIVE be honest are you?
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to mention ads incite to consume more, attempt to creep inside your daily thoughts and lie about the qualities of the product using all the tricks in the books. Add on top of this it gives more power to the big players with more money and create terrible incentive for the medias and you have one of the easiest moral decision in the world.
Not all ads are exploitive or deceptive. Ads empower small players as well. Without them large and entrenched players have a greater advantage.
The whole industry lost me way back in the 90's when I saw the first popover/under ads for X10 cameras. No, the industry is entirely exploitative of technology with little to no real redeeming qualities and are so invasive, pervasive and dishonest that you generally can't even trust the top search results for product class reviews either.
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#217Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well. For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.
I switched back to Firefox when Chrome gimped uBlock Origin's function.
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#218Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well. For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.
does ublock origin really work on chrome with its api limitations?
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Those all sound like things for a network engineer to know. I’d rather a web developer spend their time mastering the intricacies of CSS than learning someone else’s specialty.
No, you would know about these things if you ever deployed an application (and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
It depends what you mean by 'deploy', because that could cover everything from spinning up a new box in a cluster to creating a kubernetes deployment to simply dragging and dropping files in an FTP application or using scp.
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#220Always wanted to try it, but have used noscript and strict Firefox for a decade. Am often astounded on the two dozen js trackers it doesn’t load on a news site. Is there a big difference between that and UO? Thought it might be better for regular folks who may not recognize what js needs to be loaded and which is probably superfluous or dangerous.
You're looking for "Hard Mode." https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m... In this mode uBO can replace most of the features of NoScript, but you can always run both (and many folks do). You might also be interested in uMatrix, but sadly it's abandonware.
Well, I'm not looking to replace noscript, am happy with it.
Just wondering if I should recommend UBO to others instead. Is it easier to use as a novice or intermediate? And what are the ramifications of the difference?