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A word of warning about uBlock for those who aren't aware: uBlock Origin forked off of uBlock some time ago and left the Safari version behind. For Chrome and F

A word of warning about uBlock for those who aren't aware: uBlock Origin forked off of uBlock some time ago and left the Safari version behind. For Chrome and Firefox uBlock Origin is great, but for Safari I personally suggest Wipr[1]. 1: https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.giorgiocalderolla.wipr-desktop-4449XA862Y https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.giorgioc...

zouhair 10y ago
It's actually the other way around.
cmiller1 10y ago
Wipr on Safari is great, it's super lightweight, probably the fastest ad-blocking experience on any platform. My only complaint is a lack of configurability, it doesn't seem to have any way to whitelist things etc.
- mverwijs 10y ago
  Pointing ad host to 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file so no DNS resolving takes place. Nothing beats that as a baseline.
  - Borating 10y ago
    See FreeContributor [1] [1] https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor
KORraN 10y ago
Actually, uBlock Origin comes from original author of uBlock. Some time ago he said that he doesn't have time to develop Origin and passed project to other guy. Unfortunately, that guy didn't make any big changes in code (except adding himself as an author) and asked for donations. After quite big drama, original author came back, but he wasn't able to get back his project so he called it uBlock Origin.
- Sargos 10y ago
  Your comment is super confusing. Do you mean that he didn't have time to develop uBlock so then we went to make Origin? You wrote it the other way around. Which one does the original guy work on now, Origin?
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  - Viper007Bond 10y ago
    Origin is from the original author. The original author passed the torch to someone else who then used it as a donation source. So the original author came back, forked it, and titled their fork Origin.
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  - thekevan 10y ago
    I'll start over for him. Gorhill was the author of uBlock. He got tired of maintaining it, gave it up and willingly allowed chrisaljoudi to take the project. chrisaljoudi later started asking for donations, allegedly hasn't changed the code much except for some visual tweaks and added things like "Made by Chris" to the website. Some drama ensues, people accuse chrisaljoudi of being greedy, he makes some changes to how he presents things and Gorhill seemingly regrets giving the project up and instead of taking it back, (not sure if he tried or not) he forks the project and goes back to maintaining it, so now there would be 2 uBlocks. However there was an issue where Google removed the Gorhill's version from the store because it was a dupe of chrisaljoudi's version (which yes, used to "belong" to Gorhill), so Gorhill renamed the repo he was maintaining to uBlock Origin. tl;dr Gorhill started uBlock, got fed up & gave it to chrisaljoudi, later did a reversal, forked the project and continued with maintaining that fork, only now his version is called uBlock Origin.
  - ublockdrama 10y ago
    the real reason, imho, was that gorhill got fed up of crappy bug reports and all the issue management hell. he forked and continued working with his own repo without ability to make issues. he probably hoped that this teenager had more energy for communicating with users and skills to merge commits back. someone probably know relevant issue numbers where drama was happening...
uncletaco 10y ago
I've been using 1Blocker. It syncs rules between the mac and iPhone versions of Safari.
initram 10y ago
I've had good luck with the original AdBlock for Safari (no relation at all to the AdBlock Plus that sells ads) : https://getadblock.com https://getadblock.com
noja 10y ago
> uBlock Origin forked off of uBlock No, uBlock Origin was the original. The fork was confusingly also called uBlock. Origin==original. See https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/06334a190ea9589e9838af0a5b381a55f86e71ab https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/06334a190ea9589e983... (or Wikipedia)
- rootlocus 10y ago
  > https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/06334a190ea9589e983 If you remove /commit/06334a190ea9589e983 and look at the actual README.md on the project page [1], you'll see it's called uBlock Origin =) [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

zouhair 10y ago

It's actually the other way around.

cmiller1 10y ago

Wipr on Safari is great, it's super lightweight, probably the fastest ad-blocking experience on any platform. My only complaint is a lack of configurability, it doesn't seem to have any way to whitelist things etc.

mverwijs 10y ago
Pointing ad host to 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file so no DNS resolving takes place. Nothing beats that as a baseline.
- Borating 10y ago
  See FreeContributor [1] [1] https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor

KORraN 10y ago

Actually, uBlock Origin comes from original author of uBlock. Some time ago he said that he doesn't have time to develop Origin and passed project to other guy. Unfortunately, that guy didn't make any big changes in code (except adding himself as an author) and asked for donations. After quite big drama, original author came back, but he wasn't able to get back his project so he called it uBlock Origin.

Sargos 10y ago
Your comment is super confusing. Do you mean that he didn't have time to develop uBlock so then we went to make Origin? You wrote it the other way around. Which one does the original guy work on now, Origin?
- deleted 10y ago
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- Viper007Bond 10y ago
  Origin is from the original author. The original author passed the torch to someone else who then used it as a donation source. So the original author came back, forked it, and titled their fork Origin.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- thekevan 10y ago
  I'll start over for him. Gorhill was the author of uBlock. He got tired of maintaining it, gave it up and willingly allowed chrisaljoudi to take the project. chrisaljoudi later started asking for donations, allegedly hasn't changed the code much except for some visual tweaks and added things like "Made by Chris" to the website. Some drama ensues, people accuse chrisaljoudi of being greedy, he makes some changes to how he presents things and Gorhill seemingly regrets giving the project up and instead of taking it back, (not sure if he tried or not) he forks the project and goes back to maintaining it, so now there would be 2 uBlocks. However there was an issue where Google removed the Gorhill's version from the store because it was a dupe of chrisaljoudi's version (which yes, used to "belong" to Gorhill), so Gorhill renamed the repo he was maintaining to uBlock Origin. tl;dr Gorhill started uBlock, got fed up & gave it to chrisaljoudi, later did a reversal, forked the project and continued with maintaining that fork, only now his version is called uBlock Origin.
- ublockdrama 10y ago
  the real reason, imho, was that gorhill got fed up of crappy bug reports and all the issue management hell. he forked and continued working with his own repo without ability to make issues. he probably hoped that this teenager had more energy for communicating with users and skills to merge commits back. someone probably know relevant issue numbers where drama was happening...

uncletaco 10y ago

I've been using 1Blocker. It syncs rules between the mac and iPhone versions of Safari.

initram 10y ago

I've had good luck with the original AdBlock for Safari (no relation at all to the AdBlock Plus that sells ads) : https://getadblock.com https://getadblock.com

noja 10y ago

> uBlock Origin forked off of uBlock No, uBlock Origin was the original. The fork was confusingly also called uBlock. Origin==original. See https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/06334a190ea9589e9838af0a5b381a55f86e71ab https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/06334a190ea9589e983... (or Wikipedia)

rootlocus 10y ago
> https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/06334a190ea9589e983 If you remove /commit/06334a190ea9589e983 and look at the actual README.md on the project page [1], you'll see it's called uBlock Origin =) [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock