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Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

#31

Post by beretguy »

datadeft wrote: post #12

I have been using AdGuardHome on two raspberry pi nodes and it is the best filter I ever had. 2,320,452 DNS Queries 117,334 Blocked by Filters (5.06%). Top blocked domains: eu-mobile.events.data.microsoft.com 45,3543 8.65% euc-word-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 7,573 6.45% metrics.icloud.com 6,475 5.52% 4...13.us-east-1.prod.service.minerva.devices.a2z.com 4,351 3.71% euc-excel-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 4,141 3.5…

I use NextDNS with almost all filters enabled. It blocks about ~30% off all requests.

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

#32

Post by oktoberpaard »

beretguy wrote: post #31
datadeft wrote: post #12

I have been using AdGuardHome on two raspberry pi nodes and it is the best filter I ever had. 2,320,452 DNS Queries 117,334 Blocked by Filters (5.06%). Top blocked domains: eu-mobile.events.data.microsoft.com 45,3543 8.65% euc-word-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 7,573 6.45% metrics.icloud.com 6,475 5.52% 4...13.us-east-1.prod.service.minerva.devices.a2z.com 4,351 3.71% euc-excel-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 4,141 3.5…

I use NextDNS with almost all filters enabled. It blocks about ~30% off all requests.

Yet it can’t block anything from a hostname that also serves regular content (that is, without also blocking the regular content). A good example is YouTube ads. I’m also a happy NextDNS user, but I don’t browse the internet without an adblocker extension.

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

#33

Post by hnuser123456 »

mort96 wrote: post #7

The link goes to the normal uBlock Origin landing page, which contains no suggestion that anything has been disabled... It contains, among other things, some details about how some functionality is reduced in some browsers due to Manifest V3, is that what the title is getting at? Regardless, "uBlock Origin has been disabled" seems like a falsehood, unless there's something I'm missing?

A couple weeks ago, chrome updated, and forcefully disabled any extensions that didn't conform to the new standards, and displayed a popup to the user that they had incompatible extensions that were disabled.

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

#34

Post by mort96 »

hnuser123456 wrote: post #33
mort96 wrote: post #7

The link goes to the normal uBlock Origin landing page, which contains no suggestion that anything has been disabled... It contains, among other things, some details about how some functionality is reduced in some browsers due to Manifest V3, is that what the title is getting at? Regardless, "uBlock Origin has been disabled" seems like a falsehood, unless there's something I'm missing?

A couple weeks ago, chrome updated, and forcefully disabled any extensions that didn't conform to the new standards, and displayed a popup to the user that they had incompatible extensions that were disabled.

Would've been nice of either the title or the linked content to mention any of that

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

#35

Post by JohnBooty »

dcow wrote: post #30
tim333 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use it. It works well. The new lens thing is cool. You really have to spend a while scouring tech forums to find out how you are a sinner for using it.

Yes, it obviously works well. I use it occasionally too. The question is why, culturally, there hasn’t been the same push towards something else when all the reasons we migrated off IE now apply to Chrome. Maybe Google permanently won the “browser placement on the internet’s homepage” game?

I'm saying all of this as a FF diehard since before it was named FF... right up until today. I'll use FF until they pry it from my fingers.

Back in the IE6 vs. FF days... IE was inferior in every way. IE was crashy, had no tabs, pathetic/hostile developer tools, insecure, poor support for open web standards, etc.

But today?

The difference is that Chrome is really good, with great developer tools. It's a great user experience.

FF only really wins in terms of better extension API (allowing things like uBlock Origin) and the "moral superiority" of not being created by an advertising company, and serving as a bulwark against a browser engine monoculture. And among real privacy diehards, they're probably using something like PiHole which makes uBO perhaps superfluous for them.

But it doesn't out that even developers who should know better apparently DGAF about those things.

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

#37

Post by crtasm »

JohnBooty wrote: post #35
dcow wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it obviously works well. I use it occasionally too. The question is why, culturally, there hasn’t been the same push towards something else when all the reasons we migrated off IE now apply to Chrome. Maybe Google permanently won the “browser placement on the internet’s homepage” game?

I'm saying all of this as a FF diehard since before it was named FF... right up until today. I'll use FF until they pry it from my fingers. Back in the IE6 vs. FF days... IE was inferior in every way. IE was crashy, had no tabs, pathetic/hostile developer tools, insecure, poor support for open web standards, etc. But today? The difference is that Chrome is really good, with great developer tools. It's a great user ex…

There's a huge amount of ads/annoyances/3rd party embeds/etc. you can't block just using DNS. PiHole complements uBO but isn't a replacement for it.

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

#38

Post by tim333 »

JohnBooty wrote: post #35
dcow wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it obviously works well. I use it occasionally too. The question is why, culturally, there hasn’t been the same push towards something else when all the reasons we migrated off IE now apply to Chrome. Maybe Google permanently won the “browser placement on the internet’s homepage” game?

I'm saying all of this as a FF diehard since before it was named FF... right up until today. I'll use FF until they pry it from my fingers. Back in the IE6 vs. FF days... IE was inferior in every way. IE was crashy, had no tabs, pathetic/hostile developer tools, insecure, poor support for open web standards, etc. But today? The difference is that Chrome is really good, with great developer tools. It's a great user ex…

Yeah that's mostly my thinking, IE6 was a pain in the neck that deserved to die. (no 8 on this list https://www.pcworld.com/article/535838/worst_products_ever.h...)

Chrome is fine.

Firefox is kind of mixed. I use it sometimes. One of the things everyone recommended was tree style tabs so I got those and was kind of amazed that to make them look ok you are supposed to get some custom css in your editor and send it to some obscure folder deep in the file system. And now the appearance has changed because some update worked differently with the hacked together css? That seems kind of clunky. Though maybe I'm doing it wrong.

The containers thing is cool.

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

#39

Post by JohnBooty »

tim333 wrote: post #38
JohnBooty wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm saying all of this as a FF diehard since before it was named FF... right up until today. I'll use FF until they pry it from my fingers. Back in the IE6 vs. FF days... IE was inferior in every way. IE was crashy, had no tabs, pathetic/hostile developer tools, insecure, poor support for open web standards, etc. But today? The difference is that Chrome is really good, with great developer tools. It's a great user ex…

Yeah that's mostly my thinking, IE6 was a pain in the neck that deserved to die. (no 8 on this list https://www.pcworld.com/article/535838/worst_products_ever.h... ) Chrome is fine. Firefox is kind of mixed. I use it sometimes. One of the things everyone recommended was tree style tabs so I got those and was kind of amazed that to make them look ok you are supposed to get some custom css in your editor and send it to…

How do you feel about Google effectively controlling the web, since they control the browser with overwhelming market share?

Is that a factor, or...?

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

#40

Post by shpx »

dcow wrote: post #14

Why do people still use Chrome? At this point every argument for switching to Chrome from IE back in the day now applies to Google Chrome.

Firefox's keyboard shortcut for new incognito tab is objectively wrong (Cmd+Shift+P vs. Cmd+Shift+N). It turns out that even if you're one of those weirdos that configures his web browser, it's impossible even for you to change it because Firefox has a separate shortcut for "Reopen Closed Tab" (Cmd+Shift+T) and "Reopen Closed Window" (Cmd+Shift+N) instead of just having one, which is even dumber. If I close the last tab of a window and press Cmd+Shift+T the right thing to do is just to do nothing? Really?

No one at Mozilla will ever have the conviction and power to fix this design misstep. I had a bunch of other reasons typed up but finding out that this will be wrong forever is actually enough for me.

I hate ads more than anyone and I'll switch if I'm forced to but Firefox is just a bad knock off of a browser forever playing catch up with the real thing. But I'm glad someone's doing it.

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