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Re: An update on uBlock

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Post by skybrian »

newscracker wrote: post #41

Anyone who wants a low overhead and trusted ad blocker should use uBlock Origin. The developer even refuses to take any donations (for some good reasons). For those who want a lot more control and a content blocker, uMatrix would help. Anything named as “Adblock” or “Adblock Plus” or similar is just a way for advertisers to decide what ads users see and don’t see, depending on how much they’re willing to pay and be h…

The Adblock Plus ad policy seems to be somewhat different:

https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads#criteria

I mean, sure, uBlock origin is most often recommended around here. But let's not be misleading about products we don't like.

Re: An update on uBlock

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Post by detaro »

tmikaeld wrote: post #60
IntelMiner wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 to uBlock Origin Amusingly, trying to load the uBlock website was initially blocked by uBlock Origin!

Still blocked for me

I guess the parent meant "until I confirmed I want to look at the page". There's no reason for uBlock origin to remove the block.

Re: An update on uBlock

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

gruez wrote: post #37
driverdan wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The relevant question is whether it's 80% of people who are using pihole; that number is probably still pretty high, but lower than the average population I expect.

Re: An update on uBlock

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Post by bhhaskin »

skybrian wrote: post #61
newscracker wrote: post #41

Anyone who wants a low overhead and trusted ad blocker should use uBlock Origin. The developer even refuses to take any donations (for some good reasons). For those who want a lot more control and a content blocker, uMatrix would help. Anything named as “Adblock” or “Adblock Plus” or similar is just a way for advertisers to decide what ads users see and don’t see, depending on how much they’re willing to pay and be h…

The Adblock Plus ad policy seems to be somewhat different: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads#criteria I mean, sure, uBlock origin is most often recommended around here. But let's not be misleading about products we don't like.

I don't think that description is misleading at all.

Adblock Plus does not block all ads and they control which ads are displayed and which aren't. If anything the name Adblock is miss leading.

Re: An update on uBlock

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Post by craftyguy »

wolrah wrote: post #48
mirimir wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> But if you defang Windows 10 properly, it doesn't need to reach Microsoft servers. Something has to get the updates in the first place, even with the local P2P sharing. If you're one of those "I never update my Windows install" people at this point you're beyond hope..

Don't assume everyone uses windows.

Re: An update on uBlock

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Post by nasredin »

squarefoot wrote: post #53

I think this Soylent News article summarizes the situation pretty well. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/17/028245 tl;dr: the real one is Ublock Origin, get it here: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock From the same author I would also suggest uMatrix, sort of a NoScript on steroids which allows a much finer filtering literally ripping pages of a great deal of their junk more selectively, but be aware that…

Nope.

Ublock & umatrix still don't block autoplaying videos. You should still use NoScript.

IMHO if you push small cosmetic changes in the UI in every update, like Gorhill does, there's a problem.

He has a poor attitide IMHO.

Re: An update on uBlock

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Post by mirimir »

wolrah wrote: post #48
mirimir wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> But if you defang Windows 10 properly, it doesn't need to reach Microsoft servers. Something has to get the updates in the first place, even with the local P2P sharing. If you're one of those "I never update my Windows install" people at this point you're beyond hope..

Yes, but the server that gets and shares those updates need contain no PII.

I do not trust Microsoft. And so, when I need to use Windows 10, I do it in a very careful way. I start with an anonymously obtained installer. I install and update in a VM, with Internet connectivity through a nested VPN chain. Then I clone the VM, and work in the clone, with *.microsoft.com blocked.

When necessary, I update another fresh clone. Then I clone that, and securely transfer files from the first clone. That way, Microsoft never sees anything except for a clean install, and has no PII to track.

Re: An update on uBlock

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Post by nasredin »

tw04 wrote: post #25
Tiki wrote: post #21

Self-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.

IME DNS based blocking on the router works great.

And yes, you do need a software rule based blocker to supplement IP blocking.

Most ads come from a few sources, that's why hosts based blocking has been effective since 2000s.

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