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uBlock Origin 1.50.0
- pabs3 3y agoI miss uMatrix.
- scrumlord 3y ago[dead]
- politician 3y agoIs this the good one that isn't the scam? Which ones are the shady ones these days?
- theandrewbailey 3y agoConsidering that this is from Raymond Hill (gorhill), I'm 99% sure that this one is the good one.
- seritools 3y agoyes
- wombarly 3y agoIt is. No point in using any of the others in my opinion.
- jmuguy 3y agoMost of the shady ones aren't going to be open source, for one thing.
- Night_Thastus 3y agoIt's the best ad-blocker available and has been for some time.
- squarefoot 3y agoThis is the one and only legit Ublock Origin. Yes, the link name might appear misleading, but a look at the author (gorhill) and the about (Ublock Origin) will remove any doubt about the authenticity.
- jccalhoun 3y agoUblock Origin is the good one. Ublock is bad one.
- ncr100 3y agosearching for github and gorhill will not lead you astray, at the moment, for an authentic ublock
- pcdoodle 3y agoThe Man Is A Legend.
- gapo 3y agoThe hero we don't deserve.
- tasty_freeze 3y agoFurther cementing his hero status, I checked if there was a way to donate. The homepage says: > The uBlock Origin project still specifically refuses donations at this time, and instead advises all of its clients, users and supporters to donate to block list maintainers.
- eipi10_hn 3y agoAlthough not really import but just FYI, if you mean the website https://ublockorigin.com/ https://ublockorigin.com/ it's not the homepage, it's a fan-made page. uBO does not have any servers nor websites. The "homepage" is just the github page: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
- jart 3y agoRaymond Hill is like a 9/10 on the Jesus scale as far as programmers go. He even survived being martyred by that self-serving schemer who gained control of uBlock, before being successfully resurrected as uBlock Origin.
- aardvarkr 3y agoHave they been able to figure out how to continue being effective with the new chrome manifest junk?
- readams 3y agoThey haven't. When Chrome flips the switch it will not work well there.
- jccalhoun 3y agoGorhill released a lite version as a test: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite...
- birdboat00 3y agohow good is it compared to the non-light version for only ad blocking?
- judge2020 3y agoIt has a preset few lists in the extension, and you can only adjust a slider to determine blocking level, with the default just being DeclarativeWebRequest (non-blocking) ad domain blocking, and the higher tiers I suppose blocking dynamic content on the page like usual. No custom filters.
- jccalhoun 3y agoWhen it was announced I used it for a while and I seem to remember that the lack of cosmetic filtering was the only thing I really noticed.
- sleepybrett 3y ago[flagged]
- kroltan 3y agoYes, use the User Agent that best represents your needs as an user. (In other words, pester Google to revert the junk, or use a non-junk browser)
- rwaksmunski 3y agoBack in the day Safari + uBlock was one hell of an efficient browser on my macbook. I miss those days.
- rocho 3y agoUse Firefox, it's the best combination with uBlock Origin by far: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... Firefox Mobile also supports uBlock Origin, it's the only sane way of browsing the web.
- drunkan 3y agoYou can still have that combination with the Orion browser
- dfee 3y agoI’m on day 3 of the Orion browser - on one of my computers I indeed installed UBO, but I can’t tell if it’s necessary.
- Nextgrid 3y agoHow good is it on Orion? I remember trying it a while ago and it was very unreliable.
- drunkan 3y agoHaven't had any issues with bitwarden or uBlock origin in Orion that I have noticed. There is perhaps a little delay when you click the extensions in orion to their ui loading but thats about it. Have been using it for a few months now and its become my default browser on macOS and IOS. As I understand it for IOS the killer feature is extensions... I haven't got round to trying this yet. On a side note it has by far the best native tree style tabs I have used and until firefox has an equivalent I won't be going back. (yes I used sideberry extension but like I said orions native implementation beats it hands down).
- ezfe 3y ago
- croes 3y agoMVP
- nfriedly 3y ago> Add thunderbird as target for installation That's interesting. I get a couple of newsletters with advertising in them, and while I still find the Thunderbird interface a little clunky, this might sway me a bit. I'm currently running Thunderbird as an email backup solution, with a rule to automatically copy every new email to a local folder. Maybe I'll start using it a bit more. (It's in a docker image on my file server, accessed via noVNC in a browser, which definitely adds to the clunkiness. Maybe I'll switch it to my local machine.)
- spyremeown 3y ago> I'm currently running thunderbird in a docker image Why?
- nfriedly 3y agoIt's my backup solution, not my primary interface. I reworded it a bit to make that more clear.
- justsomehnguy 3y ago> It's in a docker image on my file server At this point you could|should run a proper mailsever with fetchmail. I'm running [0] specifically as a local archive solution. Now that can be accessed by Thunderbird. docker.io/mailserver/docker-mailserver
- nfriedly 3y agoInteresting, I might try that. Your link seems to be broken, though - is this the right one? https://hub.docker.com/r/mailserver/docker-mailserver https://hub.docker.com/r/mailserver/docker-mailserver
- justsomehnguy 3y agoDuh, I just copied image name from the docker-compose.yaml *grin* But yeh, this one.
- nixcraft 3y ago[flagged]
- activiation 3y agoNever had issues blocking YouTube ads...
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoNow if only I could install this onto my corporate locked-down laptop.
- abdusco 3y agoI think you can download portable version of a Chromium-based browser and install any extension you want on it.
- digisign 3y agoUse portable Firefox if possible.
- tbrownaw 3y agoSome places just block all executables that aren't explicitly approved.
- smolder 3y agoIf it's like the locked down laptop I had to work on in a recent role, running a portable browser is not an option. Everything had to be installed by admins via "service now" requests. It wasn't a particularly efficient process to set up a machine... but for security/compliance reasons, practically nothing was allowed to happen below the radar.
- digisign 3y agoLive drives are still a thing. However the optimal solution is to keep work and personal completely separate.
- jasfi 3y agoWould this add-on benefit Brave users?
- mdaniel 3y agoAs far as I know, they actually embed it: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/v1.54.44/components/third_party/adblock/lists/ublock https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/v1.54.44/components... Although I can't say with 100% confidence because their build system is some ... special
- pythux 3y agoBrave has its own Rust implementation of an adblocker embedded in the browser: https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust; so it does not embed uBlock Origin (but the filters are mostly compatible) Disclaimer: I work at Brave but not on the browser.
- danielwmayer 3y agoUblock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well. For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.
- sumek83 3y agoChrome extension? - 'uBlock works best on Firefox'
- Night_Thastus 3y agoWhen reading, I often scroll up and down, and those annoying banners that appear only when you scroll up drive me mad. I hit em with the 'ol uBlock zap and they go away. So much nicer.
- coldpie 3y agoYes! The Kill Sticky extensions/bookmarklets are good for this, too.
- kulahan 3y agoI've used it to block nearly every notification icon I can find. I now check things on my schedule. Surprisingly helpful.
- marssaxman 3y agoYes! I also delete all the cookie warnings (try ###onetrust-consent-sdk to eliminate many of them) and the "subscribe to our newsletter" popups.
- MegaDeKay 3y agoThe most valuable chrome AND Firefox extension, without a doubt.
- mouse_ 3y agoUblock is a scam. Ublock Origin is without a doubt the most valuable chrome extension. I know you people understand this but normal people take our advice and could get scammed.
- EscapeFromNY 3y agoI understand why gorhill doesn't ask for donations, but I still wish there was some sneaky way I could send him some money anyway.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- ylere 3y agoSame, I'd love to buy them a beer (or coffee)!
- rickstanley 3y agoWell, at least we have our undying gratitude to give. ;)
- marklgr 3y agoIf someone finds a way, I'm in.
- Kiro 3y agoWhat's the rationale for not accepting donations?
- nicce 3y agoResisting for temptation? Showing for everyone, that decisions are not influenced by money? Suddenly Google throws a promise of one million donation in hopes of enabling ads in Youtube.
- eipi10_hn 3y agoObviously a project like this has already been offered multi-figure money deals already: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-issues/issues/44 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-issues/issues/44 And he declined all.
- no_pomegranates 3y agoAs someone who is neither a lawyer nor an expert, I always wondering if refusing donations gave them less surface area for civil suits from advertising companies for stolen revenue.
- scohesc 3y agoMy terminology may be wrong, but I would assume these ad-blockers are great until streaming platforms catch up and embed ads directly into the video stream. Twitch is getting close to that. They directly inject video ads into streams at random times causing you to miss parts of streams. uBlock Origin seemed to have a way around that with some extra setup but it's only a matter of time before it's completely transparent, seamless, and technically unblockable by client-side addons. Part of me wonders why they haven't done so yet.
- slondr 3y agoThat’s not easy from a technical standpoint.
- inconceivable 3y agoit's a never-ending cat and mouse game. there is no "end state".
- loco5niner 3y agoYoutubers I follow are doing just that.
- Defman 3y agoHave a look at SponsorBlock. It automatically skips this kind of ads as long as someone contributed the time stamps.
- loco5niner 3y agoI just let my YouTube Premium lapse, but I'll check that out the next time I pick it back up.
- kgwxd 3y agoThose are fine by me. My problem with ad networks is that my machine is caught in the middle of upholding the contract between the advertiser and the presenter. That's their problem, not mine. I don't want to be part of that in anyway and I have every right to refuse to be. That and the personal tracking across sites, the sooner that dies, the better off we'll all be. With all that stuff gone, "ad" will finally be the correct term to use. No other form of advertising ever got to do those things.
- pixxel 3y agoThank you Mr. Gorhill.
- activiation 3y agoI don't think I ever update this addon... It must be automatic.
- Aissen 3y agoYes, addon updates (without permission change) are automatic on most browsers. This is why an extension with many users can be worth a lot of money (especially if it has wide permissions), and the Chrome webstore has seen lots of adware/malware extensions (usually resold to less scrupulous owners).
- activiation 3y agoYeah that's not a good thing. I need to disable automatic updates ASAP.
- Aissen 3y agoI think it might be the wrong reaction… Just install addons from trusted sources. Disable updates for the others.
- PTOB 3y agoI wonder; is there a way to calculate how much electricity uBlock saves over time?
- WirelessGigabit 3y agoAnd bandwidth.
- dyingkneepad 3y agoIf all you browse is HN or other ad-less websites, uBlock wastes electricity instead of saving it :)
- pachico 3y agoFrom time to time, I happen to browse using someone else's computer (browser) and I get immediately overwhelmed by how crappy the experience is without uBO. Yet, I cannot convince people to install it :)
- m5r 3y agoTelling them it blocks ads on YouTube has been enough to convince them every single time so far
- pachico 3y agoWeirdly enough, some people I know are still are afraid of it. I can't really know why but they distrust change.
- AHOHA 3y agoI had the same experience, it’s a mentality for sure, some are open to try and test and others are not, to the point for some close family members, after failing to convince them, next time I took it to “fix” something, I sneakily installed it. P.S. My home network had a network level blocker, but that was in case they don’t use my network or for other ads that are in the same domain.
- s1k3s 3y agoI’m curious what the plan is for when everyone starts blocking adblockers in YouTube style. Switching browsers won’t do anything to that.
- eipi10_hn 3y agoAnti-adblock has been in active for years now, and it's fixed by default in uBO. What it needs is users' detailed reports and feedbacks.
- everdrive 3y agoThe plan is simple. If YouTube is valuable enough to you, start paying for YouTube Premium. If it’s not, then stop watching YouTube. There’s no such thing as a permanently good service. It will slowly degrade as it attempts to get more value from its “captured” user base. To be clear, this does not suggest that I’m “owed” YouTube without ads. Just that I won’t participate in it either.
- Marsymars 3y agoWhat do you mean by “in YouTube style”? As far as I can tell, blocking ads on YouTube works fine.
- AHOHA 3y agoCan’t wait so all these cringy “content creators” are gone for good, might YT be fun again and start watching it.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoAlways wanted to try it, but have used noscript and strict Firefox for a decade. Am often astounded on the two dozen js trackers it doesn’t load on a news site. Is there a big difference between that and UO? Thought it might be better for regular folks who may not recognize what js needs to be loaded and which is probably superfluous or dangerous.
- schiffern 3y agoYou're looking for "Hard Mode." https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m... In this mode uBO can replace most of the features of NoScript, but you can always run both (and many folks do). You might also be interested in uMatrix, but sadly it's abandonware.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoWell, I'm not looking to replace noscript, am happy with it. Just wondering if I should recommend UBO to others instead. Is it easier to use as a novice or intermediate? And what are the ramifications of the difference?
- qwertox 3y agoThis is what keeps the internet as useful as it was in the 90s and early 00s. The internet without an ad blocker is brutal.