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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by joveian »

seethedeaduu wrote: post #114
codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

I have experienced this on firefox as well but it is rare and don't know of a way to reproduce it.

It looks like one of the changes improves this:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/4cac9d185b

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by [deleted] »

eikaramba wrote: post #165
lodovic wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can block the detection popup itself with uBlock. Seems to have done the trick for me.

No don't do that. And stop spreading misinformation. There is a thread on Reddit explaining why this is absolutely stupid and will only result in you losing access to YouTube. Or do you really think YouTubes for works like this. The biggest problem currently are people spreading those types of misinformation see https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtu...

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by lodovic »

eikaramba wrote: post #165
lodovic wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can block the detection popup itself with uBlock. Seems to have done the trick for me.

No don't do that. And stop spreading misinformation. There is a thread on Reddit explaining why this is absolutely stupid and will only result in you losing access to YouTube. Or do you really think YouTubes for works like this. The biggest problem currently are people spreading those types of misinformation see https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtu...

The biggest problem is people playing YouTube's game. Let them block all their users, by all means. That can only lead to good things.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by reactordev »

chakintosh wrote: post #142
squarefoot wrote: post #53

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And money. Metered connections do exist, and ads consume a lot of bandwidth which is not free.

The cognitive load is the worst part of ads for me. The amounts of ads that display an X to close the banner only for that X to be an actual link to another fkn ad or straight up opens a new tab. Not to mention the invisible divs spanning the entire page so wherever you click, it's gonna open a link which is most of time either porn, betting sites or aliexpress. This sh* should be illegal.

Oh and the list goes on. Click hijacking. Redirect soup. 1024 JavaScript tags that record the same events, only they all await each other. CNAME shenanigans. Unsubscribe really means subscribe to 1000 more. Request interception, email interception, email link rewrites in flight, await request to dead dns adserver with no timeout set making your page a hostage requiring closing the tab/browser and visiting page again.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by beej71 »

mopenstein wrote: post #157
beej71 wrote: post #19

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I'm trying Grayjay, which works great, and I've noticed one big thing: it doesn't keep showing me an endless stream of stuff to keep me on the site. It just shows my subs and a handful of suggestions. As a consequence, my time spent on the site is way down, and the time I do spend is higher quality material. But I'm with you. There's no way I'm watching an ad on YT. If they figure out how to only stream with unblocka…

>If they figure out how to only stream with unblockable ads, I will never visit the site again That's their goal. If you're not earning them money, they don't want you. You don't exist to them and you not watching their ads/videos is no threat at all.

Fine with me. I'm not threatening--just stating with clarity that they will not get a dime in any case.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by TeMPOraL »

ploum wrote: post #136
gruez wrote: post #133

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>You'd have to include the servers doing the auctions, sentiment analysis, profiling,... into it as well. Feel free to put up an estimate then. >I don't think you can actually put a number on this waste. Well that just makes it clear you're only interested in your feelings/vibes as opposed to anything objective.

You have to include the fact that the very clear objective of advertising is to make you consume more. Thus producing more pollution than if there were no ads. So, even if advertising was technically neutral (which is clearly not the case), it would still be an ecological cataclysm. One would even argue that the whole climate emergency is created by our advertise/consume culture.

That, plus the industry exists to support a negative-sum game. Past some degree of market or channel or target saturation, the only thing your ad spend does is cancels out the ad spend of your competitors. That, and it fuels the growth of an industry that's happy to enjoy the infinite money printer.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by rrgok »

I wish for a law where it would make illegal to show/put ads on any product without the consent of the consumer/user.

The same should be applied to that cookie non-sense. Default: no cookies and website should ask for permission to enable them. Or make it an option in the browser setting to reject all cookies.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by redder23 »

Justsignedup wrote: post #137
codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

Ad nauseum solves this. Sure you get tracked but you also send all the wrong signals.

How does Ad nauseum solve this? It seems you failed to understand this technical issue. Ad nauseam is build on uBlock and suffers from the same issues does it not? I have not looked into it, but it seems it's a technical limitation that lets connections go through b4 an extension is fully loaded and hooked in to be able to block them. So just by my common sense, a fork of UBO would suffer from the same issue.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by MattSayar »

flakes wrote: post #9

I've been using uBlock since shortly after it launched, and I'd rather lose access to all Google services than not have an ad blocker. I seriously question how people use a browser without one. Completely changes how the web feels.

DNS-level blocking is even better!
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