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Post by kaba0 »

Volundr wrote: post #178
paulryanrogers wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ad blockers can be an ethical issue if one considers that's what funds a site's content and its widespread availability.

I was definitely late to the game when it came to ad-blockers at least compared to a lot of HN. In general my position is that sites have to make money somehow, and too many users are never going to purchase their way past your paywall, not matter how cheap it is. Even having the friction of making someone sign up for an account is often too much. There just finally came a breaking point where too much of the web was…

Depending on the type of ad/adblocker combo, the website might still get the money for them, so the only “harm” you do is to the advertisers.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by kaba0 »

codetrotter wrote: post #140
Kiro wrote: post #108

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Maybe they just don't want to. I don't use an adblocker because I'm not bothered by ads. I just don't care enough. The only place where it's actually annoying is YouTube and that's solved by paying for Premium.

I grew up with ads and learned to not pay attention to them. I still use an ad-blocker on all of my own systems, and on my current company laptop. But a few years back at a different company I didn’t have any ad blocker installed. This was an office job with a desk and coworkers walking past me all the time. So at that job I’m having the browser open reading something and one of the older guys is walking past me. He…

Video ads are an exception — especially when your country pushes their disgusting propaganda through it. I could honestly throw my phone at a wall when I hear that ad, and it is constantly everywhere — I don’t even understand how come I can’t report it or make it not appear to me in google?!

(Country is Hungary..)

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by kaba0 »

WeylandYutani wrote: post #215
jacurtis wrote: post #88

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> 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?

Once they develop past 3 years olds in reasoning abilities…

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by rocho »

rwaksmunski wrote: post #12

Back in the day Safari + uBlock was one hell of an efficient browser on my macbook. I miss those days.

Use Firefox, it's the best combination with uBlock Origin by far:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Firefox Mobile also supports uBlock Origin, it's the only sane way of browsing the web.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by newscracker »

predictabl3 wrote: post #232
newscracker wrote: post #161

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He's written in detail (with many revisions) about why he doesn't accept donations...since 2014, actually (and versioned those on GitHub too). The latest version from April 2022 [1] says: > I do not want the administrative workload that comes with donations. I do not want the project to become in need of funding in any way: no dedicated home page + no forum = no cost = no need for financial support. I want to be free…

Honestly this just makes me wanna tip them even more. Even if it's a Hallmark card with a handwritten "thanks, no strings attached" with beer money. But I respect that ability to walk away guilt-free. It's a magical thing.

Totally agree. The value that ad blockers (especially uBlock Origin) have given in terms of user experience is immeasurable. It's a stark difference evoking anger as well as sympathy when looking at someone else's default (Chrome, usually) browser not having an ad blocker.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by canibal57 »

themoonisachees wrote: post #145
intelthrow6 wrote: post #125

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DNS records are usually set once and forget. You read the documentation once when you’re doing it, and then you basically never have to touch it again. I had to look up the difference between a CNAME and an A record, even though I’ve set them numerous times before. Not useful in day-to-day. DNS servers: going to assume you query a DNS server that has a map of domain names to IP addresses, with basic routing via DNS r…

I'd like to take the opportunity to throw some shade at network admins because out of all companies I worked at, they have consistently been the slowest to respond when their stack is usually the most reactive to changes.

The more people that offload their knowledge to the category that should be handled by networking experts, the higher the backlog for the networking experts. Which kind of supports OP's point.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by abustamam »

jacurtis wrote: post #88
dlisboa wrote: post #64

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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…

I've been in the field for seven years, primarily working for startups, and though I'm primarily FE I've dabbled in some backend stuff, and I've deployed many apps. I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what the difference between CNAME or A record is. All I know is when it comes time for deployment, I go to Google cloud DNS or AWS's equivalent and follow the instructions on how to deploy. If things don't work, I Google it.

I understand your higher level point (these boot camp guys don't understand even the basics) but where do you draw the line between basics and not basics? Many people couldn't employé Dijkstra's algorithm, or A*, or an efficient sorting algorithm. Many people couldn't tell you how memory works outside of "don't try to load 1million things from a database."

But if they're hired as a FE/BE engineer, and can perform the tasks provided to them 99% of the time (and googling / enriching themselves that 1%) what's the concern here?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by rasz »

meinheld111 wrote: post #238
danielwmayer wrote: post #28

Ublock 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.

> My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more. Next up. Pipe the yt url to mpv which uses ytdl to show the video in standard video player in your favorite resolution and codec so your laptop won’t even spin the fan

Thats exactly what I do :-) userscript injecting additional button on YT interface

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Play\shell\open\command]
    @="\"xxxxx\\play.bat\" \"%1\""
play.bat breaking back passed parameter to url (720p version is still one h264+ogg mp4 file so no need for ytdl) and title and passing that to smplayer

Re: uBlock Origin 1.50.0

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Post by activiation »

Aissen wrote: post #87
activiation wrote: post #36

I don't think I ever update this addon... It must be automatic.

Yes, addon updates (without permission change) are automatic on most browsers. This is why an extension with many users can be worth a lot of money (especially if it has wide permissions), and the Chrome webstore has seen lots of adware/malware extensions (usually resold to less scrupulous owners).

Yeah that's not a good thing. I need to disable automatic updates ASAP.

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Post by illiac786 »

jart wrote: post #198
illiac786 wrote: post #153

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Marketing is a branch that employs hundred of thousands of people to devise the best images to manipulate you. Billions are spent on research in this domain. thinking oneself impervious to ads, let alone blind, is in my view a bit presomptuous. I am convinced you are influenced by ads, you just don't notice it (and that's the point of ads, you shouldn't notice)

Thinking that the purpose of online ads is advertising, is in my view a bit presumptuous :-)

Depends a bit what your definition of "advertising" includes I guess...
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