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I'm glad to see this here. I saw this update yesterday, and the text was so typical of a company-acquisition-I-should-not-trust. Excerpt: "I believe this is a
by dantillberg 11y ago
I'm glad to see this here. I saw this update yesterday, and the text was so typical of a company-acquisition-I-should-not-trust.
Excerpt: "I believe this is a great thing for you users". Yet this is not accompanied by anything that suggests how users will possibly benefit from any of this.
Can someone suggest alternatives to Adblock that aren't controlled by dubious/secret/obviously-sketchy third parties?
- tokenizerrr 11y agouBlock
- sanqui 11y agoOr uBlock Origin, which seems to be preferred due to disruptions with the developer who took over uBlock. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
- quesera 11y agoCritically, uBlock Origin. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
- loco5niner 11y agouBlock Origin is more deserving of your recommendation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock
- elbac 11y agoCheck out uBlock Origin.
- rambambam 11y agoI use NoScript, a free plugin for Firefox. It's a little more technical than I was used to, but since this is HN, that shouldn't be a problem for most readers. When I say "a little more technical", I don't mean it's not usable. It's very user-friendly and works like a charm.
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- monochromatic 11y agouBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.
- kaybe 11y agoGhostery also does the trick almost all of the time if you set it to block everything.