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How's uBlock Origin go with this? (I use it and still don't see ads.)

fjarlq 10y ago
A bug was filed with uBlock Origin 2 days ago, but gorhill closed it[1] because it's a filter-related issue, so it needs to be taken up with the respective filter list support site. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1886#issuecomment-238840144 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1886#issuecomment-2...
- gorhill 10y ago
  One was opened in the proper tracker issue and fixed: <https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/98> https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/98>.
j_jochem 10y ago
Beats my why anybody would still use ABP over uBlock Origin. Their "acceptable ads" program is basically a protection racket scheme.
- patrickk 10y ago
  Inertia most likely. ABP was around earlier.
- WayneBro 10y ago
  Because as soon as I started using uBlock "Origin", I started seeing more ads and more sites that didn't work at all where they previously worked with ABP. Because the uBlock "Origin" UI sucks compared to ABP. Because acceptable ads is easy to turn off with one click. And because gorhill is a real asshole when you submit an issue. It's now obvious to me why uBlock had all sorts of drama at launch.
  - erikb 10y ago
    The a-hole part is certainly bad if it is true. Can you show some examples? The "seeing more ads" part can just be the result of having fewer users.
    - gorhill 10y ago
      The "seeing more ads" is baseless, I can easily provide cases where it is the opposite, because ABP is vulnerable to the "display: block !important" trick used by many web sites on Chromium-based browsers, is unable to block popunders, does not support script injections, and many other shortcomings. For instance, just try focus.de with EasyList Germany enabled. I think it's possibly just a case of someone unhappy for whom I declined[1] to take care of their pet issue, so lashing out with vague supposed flaws so as to undermine my work makes him feel better. 1. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues?q=label%3Adeclined+is%3Aclosed https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues?q=label%3Adeclined+...
      - WayneBro 10y ago
        > ... so lashing out with vague supposed flaws ... That's funny. Because the reason I said it was that you close issues without pointing out WHAT item in your huge list of ridiculous guidelines (like "I don't accept pull requests") has been broken. LOL. It's a real asshole move and if anyone actually reads the list of declined issues they can clearly see that people are annoyed by that.
        gorhill 10y ago
        To just respect the guideline to contributing shouldn't be too much to ask keeping in mind the time and work I happily volunteer to this project. Given the amount of invalid issues that keep being opened[1], asking me to spend time to detail why issues marked as "invalid" are invalid is to ask me to spend a whole lot of precious free time on not working to improve uBO. CONTRIBUTING[2] is there to be read and respected. If you disagree with it, best is to not open issues. Countless other people understand why it is needed and respect it, and helps the project get better. 1. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues?q=label%3Ainvalid+is%3Aclosed https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues?q=label%3Ainvalid+i... 2. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.m...
cocotino 10y ago
Same here, I see no ads somehow. And if I start seeing them I'll stop using Facebook, after all it is just some kind of RSS reader with built-in dumb comments now.
wooger 10y ago
The blocker makes little difference, other than performance. All the popular extensions use separate filter subscription lists, which you can subscribe to some or all of. It's those that provide the blocking logic, and which need to be updated to fix this.
- gorhill 10y ago
  For uBlock Origin, it makes a big difference: it has its own custom filter lists which make use of extended filter syntax[1]: resource redirection, script injection, more cosmetic filtering options (through which the FB issue is taken care of), etc. 1. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax
the_mitsuhiko 10y ago
I'm not a fan of ublock origin because it includes the privacy easylist by default which is breaking so many websites. They put anything in there without understanding what they are blocking. So frustrating.

A bug was filed with uBlock Origin 2 days ago, but gorhill closed it[1] because it's a filter-related issue, so it needs to be taken up with the respective filter list support site. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1886#issuecomment-238840144 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1886#issuecomment-2...

gorhill 10y ago
One was opened in the proper tracker issue and fixed: <https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/98> https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/98>.

j_jochem 10y ago

Beats my why anybody would still use ABP over uBlock Origin. Their "acceptable ads" program is basically a protection racket scheme.

patrickk 10y ago
Inertia most likely. ABP was around earlier.
WayneBro 10y ago
Because as soon as I started using uBlock "Origin", I started seeing more ads and more sites that didn't work at all where they previously worked with ABP. Because the uBlock "Origin" UI sucks compared to ABP. Because acceptable ads is easy to turn off with one click. And because gorhill is a real asshole when you submit an issue. It's now obvious to me why uBlock had all sorts of drama at launch.
- erikb 10y ago
  The a-hole part is certainly bad if it is true. Can you show some examples? The "seeing more ads" part can just be the result of having fewer users.
  - gorhill 10y ago
    The "seeing more ads" is baseless, I can easily provide cases where it is the opposite, because ABP is vulnerable to the "display: block !important" trick used by many web sites on Chromium-based browsers, is unable to block popunders, does not support script injections, and many other shortcomings. For instance, just try focus.de with EasyList Germany enabled. I think it's possibly just a case of someone unhappy for whom I declined[1] to take care of their pet issue, so lashing out with vague supposed flaws so as to undermine my work makes him feel better. 1. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues?q=label%3Adeclined+is%3Aclosed https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues?q=label%3Adeclined+...
    - WayneBro 10y ago
      > ... so lashing out with vague supposed flaws ... That's funny. Because the reason I said it was that you close issues without pointing out WHAT item in your huge list of ridiculous guidelines (like "I don't accept pull requests") has been broken. LOL. It's a real asshole move and if anyone actually reads the list of declined issues they can clearly see that people are annoyed by that.
      - gorhill 10y ago
        To just respect the guideline to contributing shouldn't be too much to ask keeping in mind the time and work I happily volunteer to this project. Given the amount of invalid issues that keep being opened[1], asking me to spend time to detail why issues marked as "invalid" are invalid is to ask me to spend a whole lot of precious free time on not working to improve uBO. CONTRIBUTING[2] is there to be read and respected. If you disagree with it, best is to not open issues. Countless other people understand why it is needed and respect it, and helps the project get better. 1. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues?q=label%3Ainvalid+is%3Aclosed https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues?q=label%3Ainvalid+i... 2. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.m...

cocotino 10y ago

Same here, I see no ads somehow. And if I start seeing them I'll stop using Facebook, after all it is just some kind of RSS reader with built-in dumb comments now.

wooger 10y ago

The blocker makes little difference, other than performance. All the popular extensions use separate filter subscription lists, which you can subscribe to some or all of. It's those that provide the blocking logic, and which need to be updated to fix this.

gorhill 10y ago
For uBlock Origin, it makes a big difference: it has its own custom filter lists which make use of extended filter syntax[1]: resource redirection, script injection, more cosmetic filtering options (through which the FB issue is taken care of), etc. 1. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax

the_mitsuhiko 10y ago

I'm not a fan of ublock origin because it includes the privacy easylist by default which is breaking so many websites. They put anything in there without understanding what they are blocking. So frustrating.