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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by shiroiuma »

chii wrote: post #73
UberFly wrote: post #41

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No kidding. How do we thank this person? Compensate the effort?

he has explicitly denied the option for donations, which is excellent moral standing from my POV. However, it does beg the question - how can the community reward people who want to do this sort of work?

Perhaps a gigantic status of him standing over a harbor? Or a national holiday?

We should also not forget to give accolades to the heroic people who tirelessly maintain the filter lists.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by janpio »

Twirrim wrote: post #32

A nice little Quality Of Life improvement for me with uBlock Origin recently has been using it top block Confluence's pop ups when someone has commented on a page I'm reading. We use Confluence to do document reviews at work, and sitting there attempting to read a document while Confluence is popping up that annoying dialogue box over and over again as people comment on the doc is insanely annoying. With uBlock Origi…

GitHub notifications blue dot for me. Not seeing it makes me click that button much less, only when I _want_ to handle notifications.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by lodovic »

swanee wrote: post #30
jenadine wrote: post #23

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I'm not seeing any YouTube adds. I'm using ublock origin with firefox and didn't do anything special. What YouTube adds are everyone talking about?

They have been rolling out ad-blocker detection with warning popups telling you to disable it. Mine were skippable the first few times but that lead to a final 3 warnings with the player refusing to load after. They seem to be doing a lot of A/B testing with the system currently.

you can block the detection popup itself with uBlock. Seems to have done the trick for me.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by autoexec »

chii wrote: post #69
spartanatreyu wrote: post #17

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In the last year, youtube anti-ad-block only ever occurred to me once and I fixed it in 2 minutes by reading the instructions on that github issue. All I had to do was manually trigger an update for uBlock Origin's filter lists then restart firefox. The filter lists update automatically, but a new youtube change got around them and the filter had a fix inside an hour (too short a time for my extension to auto-update…

This has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube. This is different to other ads, which is a crowdsourced list of filters, and isn't on a small or single individual to keep up. There must be a better way to utilize the crowd to make it work.

> This has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube.

If UBO stops working, I'll use newpipe, if that stops working I'll use yt-dlp and if that stops working I'll use whatever else people have come up with, and if nobody has anything that gets rid of the ads I'll just stop watching youtube.

I don't see that happening though. As long as we have computers that still work for us, I doubt google will come up with a way to stop ad blocking entirely. Maybe we'll have youtube re-release groups that manually edit out the ads and re-upload videos from popular channels to P2P sites. Maybe we'll get AI that can download videos and edit out the ads for us. We'll figure something out.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by WithinReason »

beej71 wrote: post #19
all2 wrote: post #12

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This. I've pretty much stopped using YouTube since the adblocker blocker shut me out. I figure it's a good time to kick a bad habit. :D

I'm trying Grayjay, which works great, and I've noticed one big thing: it doesn't keep showing me an endless stream of stuff to keep me on the site. It just shows my subs and a handful of suggestions. As a consequence, my time spent on the site is way down, and the time I do spend is higher quality material. But I'm with you. There's no way I'm watching an ad on YT. If they figure out how to only stream with unblocka…

I think Grayjay is a great idea. Many creators have alternate accounts on platfroms like Odyssey (e.g. Hardware Unboxed and Veritasium), in those cases you can subscribe to the non-youtube platform. If enough people do this, it might help us move away from youtube. Of course the last step is also important for this to work (Pay the creators.)

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by Sayrus »

leloctai wrote: post #87
codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

Which is a horrible design on Android. Firefox on my (admittedly relatively old) phone take 20s to load the first page when browser start with uBlock enabled. On desktop this is fine as it only happen once a day. But on the phone it happen a lot since apps getting killed is a normal thing.

I have the same issue with UBlock Origin since my phone is quite aggressive when killing apps. While it is indeed annoying, I don't think it's a bad design.

Maybe it's lacking a setting to toggle this (Suspend all network until lists are loaded doesn't control this behavior), but I wouldn't want to load pages full of ads on mobile simply because the app got killed.

The real issue for me is my phone killing applications when it has both battery and memory available.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by tux2bsd »

danielbln wrote: post #90
leloctai wrote: post #87

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Which is a horrible design on Android. Firefox on my (admittedly relatively old) phone take 20s to load the first page when browser start with uBlock enabled. On desktop this is fine as it only happen once a day. But on the phone it happen a lot since apps getting killed is a normal thing.

My 4 year old S10E does not exhibit this behavior at all (Firefox with uBlock).

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by andirk »

iamalchemist wrote: post #35

How is UBO on Google Chrome different than Brave browser? Context - I've used UBO on Google Chrome in the past and now using Brave browser for the last few years. I don't see much difference how web feels with UBO and Brave.

Brave browser isn't necessarily blocking advertisements as much as it is blocking scripts that are naughty, and those naughty scripts are very popular in ads and ad networks.

And the Basic Attention Token concept is something I hope takes off since the current state of online advertising is pretty abysmal.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs »

codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

> What a weird little “accident” that Chromium just moves forward and loads all the trackers, “oopsie”. I wonder which kind of promotion the engineer who made that “mistake” has been awarded.

This "bug" is in Safari/Webkit too, stop it with the conspiracy theory.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by cornedor »

jchook wrote: post #55

Google's Chrome browser now aggressively thwarts uBlock on YouTube.com. Since Firefox is not owned by Google, uBlock still works.

Isn't this just asking for an antitrust case? There is no way I implement this for my own site.
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