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Ublock 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 e
by danielwmayer 3y ago
Ublock 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.
- PTOB 3y agoAre "normal people" reading these comments, or is it just us?
- mouse_ 3y agoHacker News is not your secret club, unfortunately.
- BizarroLand 3y agoGiven the context, I would assume they were already talking about Ublock Origin.
- mouse_ 3y agoDon't take your context for granted.
- MattyMc 3y agoI'd love a brief description on how you filter recommended content from youtube.
- aendruk 3y agoyoutube.com###related
- peterhadlaw 3y agoI often use it to filter contemporary propaganda on most big tech sites, makes pages a lot cleaner
- wonder_er 3y agocouldn't agree more. I put together an explainer about how to use it to _rapidly_ (and usually permanently) delete nearly any part of public websites. When I see friends on many websites now, it makes my heart ache. https://josh.works/take-back-your-attention https://josh.works/take-back-your-attention
- gat1 3y agoGreat post ! Thank you
- 93po 3y agoRoutine reminder for everyone to also subscribe to annoyance block lists, which you aren't by default. It massively improves the web
- wonder_er 3y agowhoa. Thank you! Just enabled this for my ublock extension. Don't see a difference yet, but I'm psyched for any chance to up my ublock usage.
- dlisboa 3y agoI’m often amazed at how people I know, full internet “power users”, don’t use it and complain about ads. I have never seen an ad in years, not on YouTube or wherever. How do people who build web stuff daily not know about adblocks? It’s so weird to me.
- RankingMember 3y agoI think it's sort of a vicious cycle too- because the number of impressions goes down from all the adblocking, the users not running adblock get even more ads to the point of absurdity (see: local news sites) as tech companies try to make up the difference.
- rtsil 3y agoI have this distinct impression whenever I watch Youtube from my TV's app and Youtube serves me 6 different unskippable ads on a 10-minute video.
- xp84 3y agoYears ago as YouTube’s ads really started ramping up, I realized paying the measly $12 a month or whatever for Red, now Premium, was an obvious good decision for me. I get no ads besides actual sponsorships that are part of the video, which are the kind of ads people who hate modern advertising say they want — not “targeted at me” but rather “alongside content that is related to the ad.” If you just aren’t into “short form” video (or what used to pass for short until TikTok came around, lol) I can see how it would be unappealing to pay for a site you don’t use much, but YouTube premium is my ideal way for media to work.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoThere are YouTube specific addons that will do a better job of that and likely use less memory just FYI.
- inversetelecine 3y agoSome good userscripts around still also
- RobotToaster 3y agoAlso sponsorblock, that blocks internal video ads.
- HWR_14 3y ago> Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Also the most valuable Firefox extension as well. Thanks to gorhill for maintaining both.
- flangola7 3y agoIt also has more capability on Firefox.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoI use it to erase those chat popups.
- awiejrliawjer 3y agoOh god yes. It filters out ~50% of my youtube. I'm at the point where I can't view websites on my phone anymore because I can't stand all the ads, three popup videos all autoplaying and talking over each other ... ublock origin provides such a stark contrast.
- me_bx 3y agoWhy not use Firefox mobile, on which ublock origin can be installed?
- 93po 3y agoOnly on Android, not iOS. I have an iphone now after android my whole life. The biggest feature it's missing is the ability to block ads. It means I refuse to use the browser on my phone, which is a pretty big feature to lack.
- ryantgtg 3y agoYou can definitely blocks ads on your iPhone browser. Use a content blocker like wipr or firefox focus.
- lethologica 3y agoMaybe try AdGuard. It does a fantastic job of blocking ads for me on iOS.
- lostmsu 3y agoI use it on Android with Firefox.
- rjmalagon 3y agoMaybe you already know it: you can filter ads by DNS on phones (manually configured or with pseudo VPN apps), and if you don't mind using other mobile browsers, on Android Firefox supports ad blockers and Brave (Android and IOS) has an integrated one.
- The5thElephant 3y ago
- slt2021 3y agoI wish there was a way to auto-hide Cookie consent and Subscribe banner prompt automatically on each and every site
- drannex 3y agoIt's not perfect, but you might be looking for the "I still don't care about Cookies"[1] or Consent-O-Matic[2] extensions. [1]. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies [2]. https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
- News-Dog 3y agouBlock Origin 1.50.0 - Includes 'Annoyances' filters ( Not enabled by default ) Annoyances 0/14 AdGuard – Annoyances 0/6 AdGuard – Cookie Notices AdGuard – Mobile App Banners AdGuard – Other Annoyances AdGuard – Popup Overlays AdGuard – Social Media AdGuard – Widgets EasyList – Annoyances 0/6 EasyList – Chat Widgets EasyList – Cookie Notices EasyList – Newsletter Notices EasyList – Notifications EasyList – Other Annoyances EasyList – Social Widgets Fanboy – Anti-Facebook uBlock filters – Annoyances
- legohead 3y agoYouTube recommended has been great for me. Showing me relevant channels and videos to my interests -- woodworking, chemistry, engineering. Hasn't tried to sneak in any annoying viral videos, just good content I want to watch. I hope it stays that way -- I was always annoyed when I looked at "trending" and it's full of pop music and "we're pregnant!" videos.
- aendruk 3y agoMy personal filters are categorized into: - advertisements: things that weren’t caught by the third-party filter lists, e.g. Discord upsells - animations: gimmicks that spend CPU for cosmetic effect, or visual effects that worsen a headache - annoyances: components such as sticky headers that conflict with content, and unused features - dark patterns: fake/inflated notification badges - distractions: unsolicited suggestions, e.g. Hot Network Questions - theming: removing classes that conflict with user styles
- david_allison 3y agoThanks to a change by dang, I filter out my karma on HN and would highly recommend others try it. news.ycombinator.com###karma
- Sakos 3y agoI briefly tried to go without blocking anything through uBlock. I was willing to give sites a chance because I felt if they needed ads to survive, I'd put up with them. They're insufferable. Pop-ups, changing the layout after the page has already "loaded", interrupting content and forcing me to scroll over it, making it difficult to recognize what's an ad or what's just an embedded video related to the article, etc. Then there's Youtube, who'll insert 30s ads in the beginning and in the middle. Even if I just want to browse videos and I haven't committed a watching a specific one all the way through. I gave up quickly.
- evo_9 3y agoI've been using uBlock for a long time but I really don't think I've scratched its surface; do you (or anyone) have a good write-up on advanced uses of UBlock? That would be super helpful!
- News-Dog 3y agouBlock Origin (uBO) Wiki : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki
- everybodyknows 3y agoUblock Origin, NOT "Ublock": > The donations sought by the individual behind ublock.org ("to keeps uBlock development possible", a misrepresentation) are not benefiting any of those who contributed most to create uBO (developers, translators, and all those who put efforts in opening specific issues). ... https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-is-completely-unrelated-to-the-web-site-ublock.org https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-is-comp...
- j5155 3y agoAgreed. Funnily enough every single school provided chromebook in my city comes with it preinstalled, and yet the teachers don’t use it.
- PCP7 3y agoPipe-viewer (CLI, gtk), invidio.us or piped (web). But yeah, ublocks content hiding is a gem.
- neves 3y agoFirst install in a new computer. I'm shocked everytime I must use a browser that doesn't use an ad blocker. Internet experience for standard users suck.
- slowmovintarget 3y agoI switched back to Firefox when Chrome gimped uBlock Origin's function.
- m463 3y agodoes ublock origin really work on chrome with its api limitations?
- webmobdev 3y agoIt works but not at par - for best performance, it is advisable to use it with a Firefox clone.
- dean2432 3y agoSame! There is an excellent extension for this called RYS which makes it really easy to toggle parts of youtube you don't want https://github.com/lawrencehook/remove-youtube-suggestions https://github.com/lawrencehook/remove-youtube-suggestions
- meinheld111 3y ago> My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more. Next up. Pipe the yt url to mpv which uses ytdl to show the video in standard video player in your favorite resolution and codec so your laptop won’t even spin the fan
- rasz 3y agoThats exactly what I do :-) userscript injecting additional button on YT interface [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Play\shell\open\command] @="\"xxxxx\\play.bat\" \"%1\"" play.bat breaking back passed parameter to url (720p version is still one h264+ogg mp4 file so no need for ytdl) and title and passing that to smplayer