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To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I

To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

newscracker 11y ago
The only disadvantage, if one could call it that, is that uBlock Origin does not have a version for Safari, which uBlock has. I have read a bit about the controversies between uBlock Origin vs. uBlock. I prefer uBlock Origin wherever available.
- ddp 11y ago
  uBlock 0.9.5.2 is available for Safari. It looks an awful lot like µBlock Origin on Chrome.
  - newscracker 11y ago
    I know uBlock has a version for Safari, which I mentioned in my comment. However, uBlock Origin does not, which I also mentioned. Is there something unclear about what I said above? Both uBlock Origin and uBlock have similar code bases because they were "born" from the original uBlock (now called uBlock Origin).
    - s73v3r 11y ago
      Probably that there's a difference between uBlock and uBlock Origin.
coldpie 11y ago
Works great on Firefox for Android, too. No more app store popups!
- hrnnnnnn 11y ago
  Hey there! I thought I was the only one :D
- akgerber 11y ago
  That's the straw that broke the camel's back for me, personally. A lot of sites out there were becoming completely unreadable.
  - coldpie 11y ago
    For me it was mostly those building up a slow rage, and then an audio ad was what actually pissed me off enough to drop whatever I was doing and install it.
- _up 11y ago
  My Problem is that Chrome feels so much more responsive than Firefox, when scrooling.
  - corv 11y ago
    Recent Firefox releases solve that issue. Try Developer Edition or a Nightly.
    - tracker1 11y ago
      I may try that again... I last tried regular release a couple months ago.. some sites and the ads are so horrible in mobile without an ad blocker... but firefox was way too sluggish.
- eli 11y ago
  Thanks to Google, those full-screen app store ads are going to go away soon: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/09/mobile-friendly-web-pages-using-app.html http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/09/mobile-fr...
- atriix 11y ago
EC1 11y ago
I haven't the faintest idea how to use it besides just setting it and forgetting it. I tried digging in settings and whitelisting and whatnot but couldn't get it working.
- gorhill 11y ago
  Whitelisting a site is just a matter of pressing the big blue button: it works on a per-site basis.
  - EC1 11y ago
    Yeah that's what I've been doing.
socratees 11y ago
I've been using it for a month now. Can't recommend it more.
- DavidWanjiru 11y ago
  "Can't recommend it enough" is what you meant to say, I want to believe.
  - scott_karana 11y ago
    I think GP meant it as a compliment, and a synonym of your phrase. > Can't recommend it more. "I'm physically incapable of recommending it more often/strongly because I'm using my full strength to recommend it already" > Can't recommend it enough "I'm physically incapable of recommending it as frequently/strongly as it deserves because I have exhausted my strength in so doing"
    - ycitera 11y ago
      > Can't recommend it anymore would be positive or negative?
      - scott_karana 11y ago
        Point taken. There is definitely some ambiguity about your phrase, and GGP's phrase, but in-context I think it was clearly a compliment. :)
        ycitera 11y ago
        yes.
        Dylan16807 11y ago
        "any more" is ambiguous, "more" is not.
  - Afton 11y ago
BinaryIdiot 11y ago
My only problem with it is that it blocks Google hangouts and Facebook messenger. I haven't figured out a way to make those work while it's enabled. Edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted. Apparently this is an issue, as gorhill mentions, when selecting the leaky IP option. They should make the implications much clearer.
- gorhill 11y ago
  Did you click the setting "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP addresses"? If so, this will prevent Hangout from working. Reference issue: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/757 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/757
  - BinaryIdiot 11y ago
    Oh I had no idea that would prevent it from working. I wish they made that clear. Thanks!
    - gorhill 11y ago
      > I wish they made that clear I agree, I opened an issue to address this: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/773 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/773
      - AdmiralAsshat 11y ago
        Hi gorhill, Love the app, by the way. It's the single reason I have Firefox on my Android device instead of Chrome. Do you happen to know WHY the leak breaks Hangouts? I'm assuming Hangouts now leverages the webRTC for connection--that's fine. But I was under the impression that the local IP leak was an unintended side-effect of webRTC, not a 'required component', if you will. Does having that checkbox on effectively break ALL webRTC components, or is it something specific with Hangouts' implementation?
        gorhill 11y ago
Justsignedup 11y ago
I feel like the story goes as follows: - AdBlock Plus is mentioned in the news. They do something not-so-great. - Someone mentions uBlock. - Everyone agrees uBlock is freaken' fantastic, MUCH faster, and gives way more rules you can apply from all over the web. - Everyone circlejerks about how great uBlock is - ABP remains the gold standard. This is really annoying since uBlock really is way better in all aspects.
ycitera 11y ago
or just stay with Adblock Plus which isn't affected by this change...
- kuschku 11y ago
  Because it was already sold to a dubious company with relations to the Ad industry several years ago, and extorted 30 million US$ out of advertisers like Google.
- conceit 11y ago
  why the downvote?
on_ 11y ago
I like uBlock a lot. With default deny 3rd party, or even some other settings enabled, I find it breaks the back button often, or I have to reload the page at google to search again. ANyone else have these issues.
- monochromatic 11y ago
  Haven't run across this. What sites?
  - on_ 11y ago
    Actually, the most annoying was on google because it would lock up occasionally and if I typed a new query in, i would have to reload. I was using ublock origin on mozilla firefox. I just upgraded to El Capitan and changed some settings so I will try to give it a go again. edit: Did you have default deny third party req?
- jlarocco 11y ago
  I've been using it for a while in Chromium (a lot), Opera (not as much), and a bit in Safari, and have not had that issue. Sounds annoying, though.
belorn 11y ago
Do ublock has a mode/plugin that enable me to select objects on a HTML page for custom blocking? For adblock I use Element Hiding Helper which I use rather often.
- darrhiggs 11y ago
  Yes: http://i.imgur.com/BqN7iCF.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BqN7iCF.jpg
  - belorn 11y ago
    Thanks! I will test that out on my laptop.
- ayi 11y ago
  yes. there is a eyedropper icon on it's popup and you can use it to select dom elements.
david-given 11y ago
Just be sure NOT to install "U Block For Origin", by www.z1z2z3z4.com, which is currently the top hit if you search the Chrome extensions store for 'ublock'. I don't know what it does, but I bet it's not good.
- degenerate 11y ago
  I reported this malware app on both my devices and suggest everyone do the same. It's up to no good.
  - gorhill 11y ago
    I also reported this on September 21st, after someone alerted me to this on Twitter.[1] To think that uBlock Origin itself was suspended from the store back in April because its icon resembled too much that of the other uBlock.[2] [1] https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/646059022790037504 https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/646059022790037504 [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/50 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/50
- chc 11y ago
  It even steals the real uBlock Origin's icon. That's incredibly sketchy.
  - mbca 11y ago
    This is what happens when you have an "app store" with no approval or review process. Google should be cracking down on this, just like those ads they were displaying[1] which would serve up malware-infected versions of Firefox whenever someone searched for "Firefox". [1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/IFlMycUnKZE https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/IFl...
    - um_ya 11y ago
      A lot of people lost bitcoins because of the malicious ad problem. Somebody spoofed blockchain.info and stole a bunch of credentials... The entire bitcoin subreddit reported it, yet 2 months later it was back up.

newscracker 11y ago

The only disadvantage, if one could call it that, is that uBlock Origin does not have a version for Safari, which uBlock has. I have read a bit about the controversies between uBlock Origin vs. uBlock. I prefer uBlock Origin wherever available.

ddp 11y ago
uBlock 0.9.5.2 is available for Safari. It looks an awful lot like µBlock Origin on Chrome.
- newscracker 11y ago
  I know uBlock has a version for Safari, which I mentioned in my comment. However, uBlock Origin does not, which I also mentioned. Is there something unclear about what I said above? Both uBlock Origin and uBlock have similar code bases because they were "born" from the original uBlock (now called uBlock Origin).
  - s73v3r 11y ago
    Probably that there's a difference between uBlock and uBlock Origin.

coldpie 11y ago

Works great on Firefox for Android, too. No more app store popups!

hrnnnnnn 11y ago
Hey there! I thought I was the only one :D
akgerber 11y ago
That's the straw that broke the camel's back for me, personally. A lot of sites out there were becoming completely unreadable.
- coldpie 11y ago
  For me it was mostly those building up a slow rage, and then an audio ad was what actually pissed me off enough to drop whatever I was doing and install it.
_up 11y ago
My Problem is that Chrome feels so much more responsive than Firefox, when scrooling.
- corv 11y ago
  Recent Firefox releases solve that issue. Try Developer Edition or a Nightly.
  - tracker1 11y ago
    I may try that again... I last tried regular release a couple months ago.. some sites and the ads are so horrible in mobile without an ad blocker... but firefox was way too sluggish.
eli 11y ago
Thanks to Google, those full-screen app store ads are going to go away soon: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/09/mobile-friendly-web-pages-using-app.html http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/09/mobile-fr...
atriix 11y ago

EC1 11y ago

I haven't the faintest idea how to use it besides just setting it and forgetting it. I tried digging in settings and whitelisting and whatnot but couldn't get it working.

gorhill 11y ago
Whitelisting a site is just a matter of pressing the big blue button: it works on a per-site basis.
- EC1 11y ago
  Yeah that's what I've been doing.

socratees 11y ago

I've been using it for a month now. Can't recommend it more.

DavidWanjiru 11y ago
"Can't recommend it enough" is what you meant to say, I want to believe.
- scott_karana 11y ago
  I think GP meant it as a compliment, and a synonym of your phrase. > Can't recommend it more. "I'm physically incapable of recommending it more often/strongly because I'm using my full strength to recommend it already" > Can't recommend it enough "I'm physically incapable of recommending it as frequently/strongly as it deserves because I have exhausted my strength in so doing"
  - ycitera 11y ago
    > Can't recommend it anymore would be positive or negative?
    - scott_karana 11y ago
      Point taken. There is definitely some ambiguity about your phrase, and GGP's phrase, but in-context I think it was clearly a compliment. :)
      - ycitera 11y ago
        yes.
      - Dylan16807 11y ago
        "any more" is ambiguous, "more" is not.
- Afton 11y ago

BinaryIdiot 11y ago

My only problem with it is that it blocks Google hangouts and Facebook messenger. I haven't figured out a way to make those work while it's enabled. Edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted. Apparently this is an issue, as gorhill mentions, when selecting the leaky IP option. They should make the implications much clearer.

gorhill 11y ago
Did you click the setting "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP addresses"? If so, this will prevent Hangout from working. Reference issue: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/757 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/757
- BinaryIdiot 11y ago
  Oh I had no idea that would prevent it from working. I wish they made that clear. Thanks!
  - gorhill 11y ago
    > I wish they made that clear I agree, I opened an issue to address this: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/773 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/773
    - AdmiralAsshat 11y ago
      Hi gorhill, Love the app, by the way. It's the single reason I have Firefox on my Android device instead of Chrome. Do you happen to know WHY the leak breaks Hangouts? I'm assuming Hangouts now leverages the webRTC for connection--that's fine. But I was under the impression that the local IP leak was an unintended side-effect of webRTC, not a 'required component', if you will. Does having that checkbox on effectively break ALL webRTC components, or is it something specific with Hangouts' implementation?
      - gorhill 11y ago

Justsignedup 11y ago

I feel like the story goes as follows: - AdBlock Plus is mentioned in the news. They do something not-so-great. - Someone mentions uBlock. - Everyone agrees uBlock is freaken' fantastic, MUCH faster, and gives way more rules you can apply from all over the web. - Everyone circlejerks about how great uBlock is - ABP remains the gold standard. This is really annoying since uBlock really is way better in all aspects.

ycitera 11y ago

or just stay with Adblock Plus which isn't affected by this change...

kuschku 11y ago
Because it was already sold to a dubious company with relations to the Ad industry several years ago, and extorted 30 million US$ out of advertisers like Google.
conceit 11y ago
why the downvote?

on_ 11y ago

I like uBlock a lot. With default deny 3rd party, or even some other settings enabled, I find it breaks the back button often, or I have to reload the page at google to search again. ANyone else have these issues.

monochromatic 11y ago
Haven't run across this. What sites?
- on_ 11y ago
  Actually, the most annoying was on google because it would lock up occasionally and if I typed a new query in, i would have to reload. I was using ublock origin on mozilla firefox. I just upgraded to El Capitan and changed some settings so I will try to give it a go again. edit: Did you have default deny third party req?
jlarocco 11y ago
I've been using it for a while in Chromium (a lot), Opera (not as much), and a bit in Safari, and have not had that issue. Sounds annoying, though.

belorn 11y ago

Do ublock has a mode/plugin that enable me to select objects on a HTML page for custom blocking? For adblock I use Element Hiding Helper which I use rather often.

darrhiggs 11y ago
Yes: http://i.imgur.com/BqN7iCF.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BqN7iCF.jpg
- belorn 11y ago
  Thanks! I will test that out on my laptop.
ayi 11y ago
yes. there is a eyedropper icon on it's popup and you can use it to select dom elements.

david-given 11y ago

Just be sure NOT to install "U Block For Origin", by www.z1z2z3z4.com, which is currently the top hit if you search the Chrome extensions store for 'ublock'. I don't know what it does, but I bet it's not good.

degenerate 11y ago
I reported this malware app on both my devices and suggest everyone do the same. It's up to no good.
- gorhill 11y ago
  I also reported this on September 21st, after someone alerted me to this on Twitter.[1] To think that uBlock Origin itself was suspended from the store back in April because its icon resembled too much that of the other uBlock.[2] [1] https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/646059022790037504 https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/646059022790037504 [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/50 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/50
chc 11y ago
It even steals the real uBlock Origin's icon. That's incredibly sketchy.
- mbca 11y ago
  This is what happens when you have an "app store" with no approval or review process. Google should be cracking down on this, just like those ads they were displaying[1] which would serve up malware-infected versions of Firefox whenever someone searched for "Firefox". [1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/IFlMycUnKZE https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/IFl...
  - um_ya 11y ago
    A lot of people lost bitcoins because of the malicious ad problem. Somebody spoofed blockchain.info and stole a bunch of credentials... The entire bitcoin subreddit reported it, yet 2 months later it was back up.