How do ya'll feel about the idea that adblock can be morally equivalent to theft[1]? I see this argument pop up from time to time in relation to people who use alternative clients to services such as YouTube. But if you're using uBlock Origin, you are probably browsing many, many sites that rely at least partially on ad revenue, so it's a similar case. [1] https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/518154828166725632
it is no more theft than smelling the cooking of a restaurant.
uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
So far, adblockers have won in court every time. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32903235 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43838308 https://torrentfreak.com/adblocking-does-not-constitute-copy...
Yes, they would have to create new laws to ban adblockers. With the justification that those laws are necessary to save most of the internet.
That would set quite a precedent.
Anyone is free to point a domain at a server and serve HTTP, in the sense that they are allowed to buy a server, domain and maybe software- in order to have a website.
A fair comparison could be done for a pamphlet or a book- you are free to pay a publisher/ printing press/ editor- in order to have a pamphlet or book.
Banning adblockers would not simply affirm this. It would go further and set a precedent that you, the publisher, can run arbitrary code or display arbitrary things on a user's screen; potentially against the user's wishes.
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#94What do people use to block garbage domains from their Google results? Google results, especially for developer stuff, is so awful -- cluttered with junk sites ripping off content from blogs and Stack Overflow, etc. I've been trying to figure out some rules for uBlock Origin, but haven't gotten there, yet. Edit: Multiple fantastic options in the replies, below. Thanks, people!
Give ublacklist a try. Very effective to content farm.
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#95Really great on firefox for android too, along with YouTube background player.
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#96If major browsers were 100% user-centric they would've built ad-blocking into the browser. Maybe make it opt-in, but it should be there as a built-in feature.
All of the major browsers (except perhaps Safari?) are built to increase the control of the browser vendor (through profiles and tracking) and web developers (through increasingly intrusive hooks into the OS). All of this at the expense of the user. Users are _not_ given fine-grained control over what websites can do with their computer, and what control still remains is being slowly eroded by changes to APIs and int…
Firefox are not blocking the limitations of declarativeNetRequest. They are picking and choosing the good parts of V3 and implementing those.
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#97How do ya'll feel about the idea that adblock can be morally equivalent to theft[1]? I see this argument pop up from time to time in relation to people who use alternative clients to services such as YouTube. But if you're using uBlock Origin, you are probably browsing many, many sites that rely at least partially on ad revenue, so it's a similar case. [1] https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/518154828166725632
Theft requires taking something someone already has, not just going out of my way to avoid giving it to them. Anyway, my user-agent, my rules. That should really be the end of the argument.
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#98What kills me is even paid subscription sites like WSJ, Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha, show you ads even when you're a paying member. Why is it a war on our attention?
This!! For real. Paid subscription for Bloomberg and boom, there is huge banner on top. Takes ~10% of screen.
Why?!
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#99What do people use to block garbage domains from their Google results? Google results, especially for developer stuff, is so awful -- cluttered with junk sites ripping off content from blogs and Stack Overflow, etc. I've been trying to figure out some rules for uBlock Origin, but haven't gotten there, yet. Edit: Multiple fantastic options in the replies, below. Thanks, people!
ublacklist is what I've been using, works well.
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#100I instantly install this extension whenever I work on a new machine as I could not imagine browsing the web without it. For that reason I just went looking for a donate button to help fund the project and it turns out they don't even accept donations https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-...
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did you really have to add the pronouns mate?
"that's a great point" would suffice
wouldn't you agree?