Wait, you guys are using other browser than Firefox?
I see lots of comments here assuming absolutely everybody uses Chromium-based browsers. The Firefox "cult" (which I have been a part of since 1.5) is a bubble inside a bubble.
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
311–320 of 523 posts
Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
#312Wow, what an awesome dive into some of the technical aspects behind one of my favorite tools for using the web. And I do think of it that way these days, it's fairly stunning on some sites to switch off all the block and see how they become genuinely unbrowsable. I remember seeing Gorhill discuss a few times over the years some of the reqs for uBO during certain times (like why it could no longer work with Safari fol…
Funny, I see the possible future differently. I am inclined to predict that the option to use ad blockers may come to an end because browsers and other software financed with online ad-derived revenue have full control over what extensions users are allowed to run. They have full control over that system for extending the functionality of their software. Whereas the system for supplying software with IP addresses sho…
> I am inclined to predict that the option to use ad blockers may come to an end because browsers and other software financed with online ad-derived revenue have full control over what extensions users are allowed to run. They have full control over that system for extending the functionality of their software.
I have a feeling that if Chrome (for instance) went that route it would quickly become Internet Explorer'd. If you recall, IE was the Chrome of its day for a good while until it slowly eroded away all its goodwill.
Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely the ublock devs are not writing WASM directly? It would be possible to have the source code available for audit with some way of proving it generates the assembly that is being shipped.
Sorry anything is possible, but your comment is a bit hand wavy. Reproducible builds are non trivial. And then what - the reviewer is now supposed to build your software and verify some Hash? Or were you thinking something else?
>And then what - the reviewer is now supposed to build your software
I believe that is standard operating procedure for the chrome store.
Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd loose all that performance gain to ads anyway. I'm truly shocked how horrible the experience is whenever I see someone browsing the web without it.
It's absolutely wild, I have Chrome Canary installed w/o any addons because of some bleeding edge WebBluetooth stuff I'm working on and occasionally I'll forget which browser I'm using and visit a site with it. The web without adblock is basically unusable, it's legitimately completely insane that people will put up with it.
People don't put up with ads. They are forced upon them. Many of them with no knowledge of how to block them.
To them, ads are part and parcel of "using the internet". Some of them hate ads. But not for technical reasons though.
Outside of complaining why they hate that annoying ad from company X, most people probably won't be motivated enough to actually do anything about it. For some, this is just how they expect the "internet" to work. An ad-free one would feel broken to them.
Ads are not a bother for most casual people.
Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
#315Wow, what an awesome dive into some of the technical aspects behind one of my favorite tools for using the web. And I do think of it that way these days, it's fairly stunning on some sites to switch off all the block and see how they become genuinely unbrowsable. I remember seeing Gorhill discuss a few times over the years some of the reqs for uBO during certain times (like why it could no longer work with Safari fol…
Funny, I see the possible future differently. I am inclined to predict that the option to use ad blockers may come to an end because browsers and other software financed with online ad-derived revenue have full control over what extensions users are allowed to run. They have full control over that system for extending the functionality of their software. Whereas the system for supplying software with IP addresses sho…
It's ironic that the browser that presents the biggest red flag for removing user control of DNS is Firefox, with their push for DNS over HTTPS. It's true that you can turn it off (for now), but until Firefox baked DoH in, DNS was a sacrosanct user control switch mostly unimpeachable by corporate meddling.
Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
I made https://thisfoodblogdoesnotexist.com as satire. It uses GPT2 to generate blog content like those 15 paragraph essays.
Some of the recipes seem actually plausible, e.g. https://thisfoodblogdoesnotexist.com/30-Minute-Rice-Pudding-...
five cups milk would make rice soup.
Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
#317www works best with Chromium-based browsers
Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same, I find news articles particularly bad examples. I get advertisments, but news articles with excessive clickbaiity adds (adds not internal links to other articles) really do just make me close the tab down. If there was some better mobile integration of the extensions or built into the browser itself to be perhaps less intrusive adds allowed it would be appreciated. From that, are browsers legally allowed to…
>The same, I find news articles particularly bad examples. I get advertisments, but news articles with excessive clickbaiity adds (adds not internal links to other articles) really do just make me close the tab down. Yeah, they follow every dark pattern in the book, especially on mobile. 90% of the time, I'll see a video at the top that autoplays, and then if I scroll down, it will make the video hover over the 75% o…
Comcast and other ISPs who have crazy small data-caps and then bill the consumer 5 times over for used bandwidth and "overages" that might have MAYBE made sense 20 years ago.
Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
#319I love Firefox and I use it on principle. I don’t think I have a worse web experience, although that wouldn’t stop me. What does break websites is turning on anti-tracking measures. The number of times a site won’t work till I enable third party cookies shows the sad state of the web. Developers, do you only test in Chrome on Windows with default settings or something?
> The number of times a site won’t work till I enable third party cookies shows the sad state of the web. Developers, do you only test in Chrome on Windows with default settings or something?
Well, Chrome is removing 3rd-party cookies by next year, and they are disabled by default in Safari already (well, sort of, ITP is weird). So many problems which used to happen to very few users are now being quickly prioritized. There are lots of use cases for third party cookies (example: you have a centralized management platform for lots of websites which have unique mapped domains, and you want to be authenticated against all of them at once), so it’s not surprising that critical features can be broken. It’s very much backwards incompatible.
But I agree, overall removing 3rd party cookies is great. Though, it’s important that whatever advertisers think of next isn’t just as bad.
Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use https://recipe-search.typesense.org/ for finding recipes, it has scraped over 2M of them. No distractions.
I have resorted to buying books after being burnt by just bad receips floating around on the Internet.
Wow, it's exactly the opposite for me - bought a few cookbooks at ~19-20 years old and used them for a few years. Now it's been a decade since I last touched any of my cookbooks because the recipes are really limited and just not that great compared to what you find on the internet.
I guess I avoid the junk because I have good instinct, I can usually tell if something is going to be bad based on the ingredients. Also if I'm looking to make something "basic" I'll specifically look for Alton Brown's recipe for it or sometimes Chef John's recipe. I also sometimes just use recipes for "inspiration" too - just to get a basic idea of what the ingredients are.