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Your phrasing is a bit awkward. Just to avoid confusion, Raymond Hill is the original developer, some other fellow took over the uBlock project.
chris aljoudi, to be exact. he's also the author of the Purify adblocker on iOS.
An update on uBlock
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Re: An update on uBlock
#32Re: An update on uBlock
#33Self-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.
Only chaos if you run Windows. I wouldn't even notice if it was blocked.
Re: An update on uBlock
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It's uBlock Origin. Adblock Origin (the phrase you footnoted) doesn't exist.
Re: An update on uBlock
#35Self-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 is worse at adblocking than browser based adblockers (ublock origin, abp, etc.) because they can only block on domains. so it can't block ads such as
somesite.example/ads/banner1.jpg
somecdn.example/adcompany/ads.js
Re: An update on uBlock
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Only chaos if you run Windows. I wouldn't even notice if it was blocked.
Right, so only chaos for 99%+ of the corporations in the US...
Re: An update on uBlock
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Only chaos if you run Windows. I wouldn't even notice if it was blocked.
>Only chaos if you run Windows
so breaking 80+% (being a bit conservative here) of people's computers is okay?
Re: An update on uBlock
#38Self-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.
Sure, it would be chaos if you expect everything to just work out OK. But if you defang Windows 10 properly, it doesn't need to reach Microsoft servers. That is, blocking is a supplementary measure.
When I last used Windows, you could host updates locally. And I believe that Microsoft actually recommended that for large firms.
Re: An update on uBlock
#39I'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
I saw this too. I imagine the intention here is to drive away any interest in the non-good uBlock, i.e the uBlock that is not uBlock Origin.
Re: An update on uBlock
#40Cue 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?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ublock/comments/32mos6/ublock_vs_ub...
https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/issues/1706
Basically what AdBlock bought is the technical right to say "this extension is the original uBlock project" which is a part of narrative on https://www.ublock.org/announcement/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock/epcnnfbjfcg... but as far as community is concerned it died when it was transferred over and resurrected shortly after under a new repo on Gorhils account