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I instantly install this extension whenever I work on a new machine as I could not imagine browsing the web without it. For that reason I just went looking for

I instantly install this extension whenever I work on a new machine as I could not imagine browsing the web without it. For that reason I just went looking for a donate button to help fund the project and it turns out they don't even accept donations https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-donations%3F https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-...

telchior 5y ago
"Have a thought for the maintainers of the various lists. These lists are everything. This can't be emphasized enough." So you can fund the project -- by donating to the lists it relies on.
- frankharv 5y ago
  While I agree on supporting the things you use. I don't think "the lists are everything". Quite the opposite, Its the blocking features. For me I like uBlocks disabling Javascript with an easy click and the other granularity (popups, multimedia) it allows on a site by site basis.
  - telchior 5y ago
    I'm thinking of it this way. A guy builds a flamethrower to burn away the creeping slime that threatens to overtake your house. Someone else then supplies the fuel. You want to donate, but the builder says no. "The fuel is everything." That's pretty much correct from one perspective. The flamethrower is built, just needs a bit of maintenance now and then. But its everyday slime-burning power comes from the fuel.
    - mkr-hn 5y ago
      The lists are more like an automatic targeting system for your world-saving flame thrower. Both are vital since the slime killed everyone who knew how to use it, so now you have to enlist average people who only use them to clear weeds and snow.
      - Melatonic 5y ago
        When your flamethrower needs to shoot hundreds of thousands of little slime balls all at once using tiny little blasts of flame I think that targeting system becomes pretty damn vital!
  - 2muchcoffeeman 5y ago
    As a general life rule, not just for uBlock: help in the way you are asked to help.
    - HstryrsrBttn 5y ago
  - helph67 5y ago
    Please explain how you are able to disable Javascript.
    - ericra 5y ago
      To disable javascript for specific site in uBlock Origin, click the extension icon, then click the "more" button in the menu several times until all options are displayed (you only have to do this step once total, not per site). Once the 5 top menu icons are visible, click the one to the right that looks like </> to disable javascript for the site you're on.
      - helph67 5y ago
        Thanks, I did search through uBlock before asking.
  - woldemariam 5y ago
    how do you block popups?
flurdy 5y ago
- randomguy3344 5y ago
  did you really have to add the pronouns mate? "that's a great point" would suffice wouldn't you agree?
  - willcipriano 5y ago
    The upvote button is fine if all you want to say is "great point"
  - oauea 5y ago
    or even just "they"
    - loudtieblahblah 5y ago
      - ska 5y ago
        You aren't going to have a whole lot of company. All of the major style guides have given it the nod because they are practical. It's a weakness in English, lacking a unique indefinite pronoun - so we're probably stuck with "they" unless a neologism sticks.
      - jsmith99 5y ago
        Intended by whom?
      - fernandotakai 5y ago
        i have so much trouble with they as singular because ESL + romantic language with no genderless pronoun. i always call users "he" because user is, by default, male in my native language.
planetafro 5y ago
I prefer DNS filtering over extensions as they generally want all permissions to essentially impersonate you at the browser level. Am I wrong?
- Ayesh 5y ago
  Most ad services now swap their ad JS domains frequently, aggregate snippets (ads and functional) over a Tag Manager, or simply even proxy the ad scripts through the main domain, which a DNS filter cannot block reliably.
- BiteCode_dev 5y ago
  Wrong, no. It's a compromise. Addons have the ability to filter advertisements that cannot be identified by their domain name or ip. They also can take actions to compensate for website failure when ads are blocked.
- everdrive 5y ago
  You’re not necessarily wrong, however there are whole categories of ads and tracking that cannot be prevented by DNS blocking.
- matheusmoreira 5y ago
  You're not wrong. We're all placing immense amounts of trust in uBlock Origin. I often say that the blockers should be fully integrated into the browsers themselves in order to solve the trust problem. It's sad that it can't happen due to conflicts of interest.
  - airstrike 5y ago
    > the blockers should be fully integrated into the browsers themselves in order to solve the trust problem s/solve/transfer
    - pmontra 5y ago
      The browser owns the connection anyway and can do whatever it wants with the content. Of course trusting one party is better than having to trust two parties so we are back to do we trust the adblocker?
AdmiralAsshat 5y ago
I can definitely understand his point. Some guy donates a dollar to your project and suddenly they act like you owe them the 80 hours required to implement their stupid enhancement request.
- amelius 5y ago
  Just block them then ;)
pessimizer 5y ago
It's hard to forget to install it. The first time you open a browser on a new machine and for a moment, for probably the first time in a while, see how the internet really looks, that's the best ad for uBlock Origin.
- trts 5y ago
  The internet with no adblock is a little like driving through Breezewood, Pennsylvania https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk
  - matheusmoreira 5y ago
    A little. On the internet, the ads actively jump in front of our faces while we're trying to read something. Imagine driving under such conditions.
    - banana_giraffe 5y ago
      Be more like this virtual barrier in Sydney: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325904/Water-stop-sign-Virtual-barrier-curtain-water-halts-lorries-driving-small-tunnels.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325904/Water-stop-...
  - neogodless 5y ago
    That's actually a pretty famous photo. You can right-click and see a much larger one. Must get that full-sized advertising goodness. https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/postwar-contemporary-photographs-n09781/lot.89.html https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/postwar...
    - GuB-42 5y ago
      Famous and deceptive. It is a narrow angle shot, taken straight down the axis of very specific strip. Take an off axis, wide angle shot, and billboards disappear. I don't remember the details but photographic tricks like that played a large role in a trial opposing advertisers to people who considered billboard an eyesore. The former used wide angle shots while the latter used telephoto. We saw a lot of tricks like that related to covid and social distancing. Heavily zoomed pictures of "crowded" beaches, streets, etc... where in reality, it is far less dense than the photo makes it look like.
loudtieblahblah 5y ago
the day is coming - between changing how 3rd party cookies work, how ads are served from the same domain as content itself, to the intended feature-creep of Trusted Computer.. that ublock origin, pihole (which is already a piss poor solution), and other tools are going to be rendered useless. It's a great tool. But it's days are numbered. A couple more years and mark my words, things like ublock, will be defeated.
- stjohnswarts 5y ago
  Good luck with that. ISPs, DMCA people, etc have been saying that for 30 years.
- devmor 5y ago
  If you think that's going to happen, you definitely have never worked with an advertiser or agency. Most would rather die than trust the content provider with reporting their own statistics.
meerita 5y ago
We're two. It's so useful. I use it on those website who display the "accept all cookies", specially on those ones because I'm tired of denying cookie usage. I still don't understand why Firefox, champion of privacy, doesn't make a uBlock native.
- scarface74 5y ago
  Blame government for not understanding unintended consequences when they pass laws regarding tech (GDPR)
  - btdmaster 5y ago
    The law says that agreeing or disagreeing should be equally easy. Companies are breaking that law.
    - dfinninger 5y ago
      Personally, I rarely come across a site that makes it harder to agree than disagree. I find both paths equally annoying.
      - forty 5y ago
        We must not use the same internet. Agree is always one click for me, and there is generally no disagree button, but a "manage your privacy settings" button, that opens the biggest popups ever, slow as hell, when then even work,with thousand of button to click.
      - adhesive_wombat 5y ago
        Examples are plentiful. https://twitter.com/cookieshame https://twitter.com/cookieshame One interesting thing is that loads of sites use OneTrust to implement illegal banners. However OneTrust has a compliant banner on their own site. So they can do it, but most sites deliberately configure it illegally.
    - scarface74 5y ago
YaBomm 5y ago
stjohnswarts 5y ago
- ublock origin - vim c - user agent switcher are the big three for me.
pbronez 5y ago
> I don't want the project to become in need of funding in any way: no dedicated home page + no forum = no cost = no need for funding. I want to be free to move onto something else if ever I get tired working on these projects (no donations = no expectations). This resonates with me. I'm thinking about spinning up a new open source project, and I really want it to be default-alive. I know that I don't have infinite time and attention for it... I want it to be able to live without constant feeding. I do think that donations will be part of the picture though. Similar to uBlock, the project will have some dependencies on upstream data providers. I would love to generate revenue and pass it to those upstream providers to support the broader ecosystem.

telchior 5y ago

"Have a thought for the maintainers of the various lists. These lists are everything. This can't be emphasized enough." So you can fund the project -- by donating to the lists it relies on.

frankharv 5y ago
While I agree on supporting the things you use. I don't think "the lists are everything". Quite the opposite, Its the blocking features. For me I like uBlocks disabling Javascript with an easy click and the other granularity (popups, multimedia) it allows on a site by site basis.
- telchior 5y ago
  I'm thinking of it this way. A guy builds a flamethrower to burn away the creeping slime that threatens to overtake your house. Someone else then supplies the fuel. You want to donate, but the builder says no. "The fuel is everything." That's pretty much correct from one perspective. The flamethrower is built, just needs a bit of maintenance now and then. But its everyday slime-burning power comes from the fuel.
  - mkr-hn 5y ago
    The lists are more like an automatic targeting system for your world-saving flame thrower. Both are vital since the slime killed everyone who knew how to use it, so now you have to enlist average people who only use them to clear weeds and snow.
    - Melatonic 5y ago
      When your flamethrower needs to shoot hundreds of thousands of little slime balls all at once using tiny little blasts of flame I think that targeting system becomes pretty damn vital!
- 2muchcoffeeman 5y ago
  As a general life rule, not just for uBlock: help in the way you are asked to help.
  - HstryrsrBttn 5y ago
- helph67 5y ago
  Please explain how you are able to disable Javascript.
  - ericra 5y ago
    To disable javascript for specific site in uBlock Origin, click the extension icon, then click the "more" button in the menu several times until all options are displayed (you only have to do this step once total, not per site). Once the 5 top menu icons are visible, click the one to the right that looks like </> to disable javascript for the site you're on.
    - helph67 5y ago
      Thanks, I did search through uBlock before asking.
- woldemariam 5y ago
  how do you block popups?

flurdy 5y ago

randomguy3344 5y ago
did you really have to add the pronouns mate? "that's a great point" would suffice wouldn't you agree?
- willcipriano 5y ago
  The upvote button is fine if all you want to say is "great point"
- oauea 5y ago
  or even just "they"
  - loudtieblahblah 5y ago
    - ska 5y ago
      You aren't going to have a whole lot of company. All of the major style guides have given it the nod because they are practical. It's a weakness in English, lacking a unique indefinite pronoun - so we're probably stuck with "they" unless a neologism sticks.
    - jsmith99 5y ago
      Intended by whom?
    - fernandotakai 5y ago
      i have so much trouble with they as singular because ESL + romantic language with no genderless pronoun. i always call users "he" because user is, by default, male in my native language.

planetafro 5y ago

I prefer DNS filtering over extensions as they generally want all permissions to essentially impersonate you at the browser level. Am I wrong?

Ayesh 5y ago
Most ad services now swap their ad JS domains frequently, aggregate snippets (ads and functional) over a Tag Manager, or simply even proxy the ad scripts through the main domain, which a DNS filter cannot block reliably.
BiteCode_dev 5y ago
Wrong, no. It's a compromise. Addons have the ability to filter advertisements that cannot be identified by their domain name or ip. They also can take actions to compensate for website failure when ads are blocked.
everdrive 5y ago
You’re not necessarily wrong, however there are whole categories of ads and tracking that cannot be prevented by DNS blocking.
matheusmoreira 5y ago
You're not wrong. We're all placing immense amounts of trust in uBlock Origin. I often say that the blockers should be fully integrated into the browsers themselves in order to solve the trust problem. It's sad that it can't happen due to conflicts of interest.
- airstrike 5y ago
  > the blockers should be fully integrated into the browsers themselves in order to solve the trust problem s/solve/transfer
  - pmontra 5y ago
    The browser owns the connection anyway and can do whatever it wants with the content. Of course trusting one party is better than having to trust two parties so we are back to do we trust the adblocker?

AdmiralAsshat 5y ago

I can definitely understand his point. Some guy donates a dollar to your project and suddenly they act like you owe them the 80 hours required to implement their stupid enhancement request.

amelius 5y ago
Just block them then ;)

pessimizer 5y ago

It's hard to forget to install it. The first time you open a browser on a new machine and for a moment, for probably the first time in a while, see how the internet really looks, that's the best ad for uBlock Origin.

trts 5y ago
The internet with no adblock is a little like driving through Breezewood, Pennsylvania https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk
- matheusmoreira 5y ago
  A little. On the internet, the ads actively jump in front of our faces while we're trying to read something. Imagine driving under such conditions.
  - banana_giraffe 5y ago
    Be more like this virtual barrier in Sydney: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325904/Water-stop-sign-Virtual-barrier-curtain-water-halts-lorries-driving-small-tunnels.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325904/Water-stop-...
- neogodless 5y ago
  That's actually a pretty famous photo. You can right-click and see a much larger one. Must get that full-sized advertising goodness. https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/postwar-contemporary-photographs-n09781/lot.89.html https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/postwar...
  - GuB-42 5y ago
    Famous and deceptive. It is a narrow angle shot, taken straight down the axis of very specific strip. Take an off axis, wide angle shot, and billboards disappear. I don't remember the details but photographic tricks like that played a large role in a trial opposing advertisers to people who considered billboard an eyesore. The former used wide angle shots while the latter used telephoto. We saw a lot of tricks like that related to covid and social distancing. Heavily zoomed pictures of "crowded" beaches, streets, etc... where in reality, it is far less dense than the photo makes it look like.

loudtieblahblah 5y ago

the day is coming - between changing how 3rd party cookies work, how ads are served from the same domain as content itself, to the intended feature-creep of Trusted Computer.. that ublock origin, pihole (which is already a piss poor solution), and other tools are going to be rendered useless. It's a great tool. But it's days are numbered. A couple more years and mark my words, things like ublock, will be defeated.

stjohnswarts 5y ago
Good luck with that. ISPs, DMCA people, etc have been saying that for 30 years.
devmor 5y ago
If you think that's going to happen, you definitely have never worked with an advertiser or agency. Most would rather die than trust the content provider with reporting their own statistics.

meerita 5y ago

We're two. It's so useful. I use it on those website who display the "accept all cookies", specially on those ones because I'm tired of denying cookie usage. I still don't understand why Firefox, champion of privacy, doesn't make a uBlock native.

scarface74 5y ago
Blame government for not understanding unintended consequences when they pass laws regarding tech (GDPR)
- btdmaster 5y ago
  The law says that agreeing or disagreeing should be equally easy. Companies are breaking that law.
  - dfinninger 5y ago
    Personally, I rarely come across a site that makes it harder to agree than disagree. I find both paths equally annoying.
    - forty 5y ago
      We must not use the same internet. Agree is always one click for me, and there is generally no disagree button, but a "manage your privacy settings" button, that opens the biggest popups ever, slow as hell, when then even work,with thousand of button to click.
    - adhesive_wombat 5y ago
      Examples are plentiful. https://twitter.com/cookieshame https://twitter.com/cookieshame One interesting thing is that loads of sites use OneTrust to implement illegal banners. However OneTrust has a compliant banner on their own site. So they can do it, but most sites deliberately configure it illegally.
  - scarface74 5y ago

YaBomm 5y ago

stjohnswarts 5y ago

- ublock origin - vim c - user agent switcher are the big three for me.

pbronez 5y ago

> I don't want the project to become in need of funding in any way: no dedicated home page + no forum = no cost = no need for funding. I want to be free to move onto something else if ever I get tired working on these projects (no donations = no expectations). This resonates with me. I'm thinking about spinning up a new open source project, and I really want it to be default-alive. I know that I don't have infinite time and attention for it... I want it to be able to live without constant feeding. I do think that donations will be part of the picture though. Similar to uBlock, the project will have some dependencies on upstream data providers. I would love to generate revenue and pass it to those upstream providers to support the broader ecosystem.