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I visited the article he mentioned had had no issues. Ads and videos and everything from third-party sites were blocked and all I had was the text of the artic
by intrasight 10y ago
I visited the article he mentioned had had no issues. Ads and videos and everything from third-party sites were blocked and all I had was the text of the article. I think the author has got to tune his ad blocking tech.
Edit: uBlock Origin blocked 20 third-party domains. Totally typical of web sites these days.
- NelsonMinar 10y agoI use uBlock Origin too, and the LA Times definitely detects I'm using it and puts a big uncloseable popup demanding I turn it off. I think it only does this after repeated visits though, not the first.
- intrasight 10y agoDo you block all third-party resources?
- NelsonMinar 10y agoI don't think so. I have not extensively reconfigured uBlock Origin. What setting are you thinking is relevant? BTW, this custom filter rule seems to work around the LA Times blocker blocker. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13567527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13567527
- intrasight 10y agoYou have to enabled "advanced user". Then on the "third-party" line you can select to block. Be forewarned that your browsing experience will default to a mid-1990s experience as you'll likely have no JS nor CSS since those are now often served by different domains. But for each domain you can now select which third-party sites to enable and then persist those settings. I have Firefox setup this way. In Chrome I have a default uBlock Origin install, so it is not so aggressive with filtering. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-user-features https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-user-feature...
- NelsonMinar 10y agoOh I see what you mean. Yeah, that's crazy, I'm not doing that.
- intrasight 10y agoYeah, that's what my wife said too. That I go to the trouble shows how fed up I am with all this tracking.