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A curated list of uBlock origin filters
- HeckFeck 3y ago> YouTube: search interface cleanups Ah, finally someone has done it. YouTube search without the 'For you' and 'from your history' guff.
- vidyesh 3y agoI have disabled YouTube Watch history and I really enjoy seeing YouTube struggle to provide me anything meaningful in the Home feed. Most suggestions are just based on my subscriptions and I see a lot of repeated suggestions as it doesn't know what I have watched. This keeps me away from the echo chamber that it creates for most people.
- mharig 3y ago*This keeps me in the cozy echo chamber of my subscriptions. Fixed it for you.
- vidyesh 3y agoAn echo chamber propagates the same idea through various channels making it look like the echo chamber is the only truth. My subscriptions stay limited, no every creator creates the same video again and again, once I watch a video I am not going to rewatch it and get another new idea which solidifies the idea. So I would argue that it isn't creating an echo chamber.
- 2Gkashmiri 3y agoWhy do you use YouTube while signed in ? All the past 12-14 years I've used YouTube, it was always in a private window. With or without login. Earlier I had an account but when google signup was mandated, I quit and since then I just manually go and search for stuff. I have newpipe and libretube on my phone so I have some semblance of "subscriptions and channels" but not much.
- HeckFeck 3y agoToo much fun in the comments =) I agree that newpipe is excellent, it's a wonder they still keep it going.
- OldManRyan 3y agoI use the extension BlockTube to filter out videos by channel and I think it works pretty well since I only need to right click on a video and can block the entire channel. That means you have to trust another extension. That being said, it is an understatement to say I can't tolerate the internet without uBlock Origin. I get so much value out of this project I would donate 10-20% of my salary to the project if they allowed donations.
- romseb 3y agoFor YouTube, I go the other way and instead of blacklisting channels, I use https://unhook.app https://unhook.app to only see my subscriptions and nothing else. No Home feed suggestions, no sidebar, no end screen cards, etc.
- OldManRyan 3y agoDidn't know this extension existed, thank you. I don't actually subscribe to any Youtube channels and mainly search for what I want at the time but this may be a healthier way to use Youtube.
- mistermann 3y agoAny idea if this is smart enough to show all new content from your subscriptions or does it only show the select choices that YouTube makes for you (another infuriating YouTube design choice).
- Already__Taken 3y agothere are some gems the YT homepage can bring you. be sure to delete the dumb meme recap you watched at 3am from the watch history and the algorithm can work for you.
- mosquitobiten 3y agoOh, wow. Didn't know I can do that. Thanks, it was getting really hard to train the algo again with the things I want recommended on a certain account after accidentally searching for something of interest for another account.
- TekMol 3y agoI wonder if uBlock origin has overshot the mark. It even blocks self-hosted analytics scripts from the same domain. By default. I don't see how that is a good thing. It just makes the lives of people who run websites harder. When I visit a website, I have some sympathy towards the person who runs it. Disabling scripts which talk to self-hosted analytics software makes it hard to figure out how users use a website. Especially when the site is using a CDN. So people enable tracking on the CDN level. Which means now CloudFlare, Amazon etc store that data again. Lose-lose for everybody.
- nathanlied 3y agoIt is an unfortunate reality of how the Internet is built. There's quite a few people like you, that are fine with self-hosted analytics, either because you believe the principles of the websites you visit, or because you've done so-called "good" analytics, and so disable that kind of blocking, hoping your trust won't be abused. Problem is, some of us don't believe those principles hold, and/or have seen people doing vacuum-style analytics. I've listened to conversations of otherwise well-intentioned devs who are otherwise anti-ads and anti-unnecessary data collection ask for more data to be collected in analytics because "we might need it". Leaves a very sour taste in my mouth. So I block it all - what I can, of course. If they find ways around it that I can't block, at least I've done my best.
- 5e92cb50239222b 3y agoSame domain doesn't always mean your information won't get leaked to wherever. For example, Sentry supports sending data through a proxy hosted on the same domain used by the website. If you don't block it, your data ends up on sentry.io anyway (in most cases; some users probably self-host their own Sentry instance, but how many? It's quite painful from my personal experience.) https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/troubleshooting/#dealing-with-ad-blockers https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/troubleshooting/...
- bunga-bunga 3y agoI share this sentiment. I use content blockers to avoid annoyances and trackers, but I'm ok with healthy ads and other local stats. The problem is not being able to distinguish them at scale.
- yuumei 3y agoIn-case anyone needs it, the following uBlock blocks some of the changes Microsoft made to github, like the cursor and symbol viewer. github.com##.code-navigation-cursor github.com###symbols-pane:upward(1) Unfortunately searching is still broken. This greasemonkey script blocks the capture of keyboard shortcuts like / ctrl space: keycodes = [191, 17, 32] document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) { if (keycodes.indexOf(e.keyCode) != -1) { e.cancelBubble = true; e.stopImmediatePropagation(); } return false; });
- ck2 3y agoI wish ublock could do basic url rewrites without having to use greasemonkey/scripts/plugins Things like rewriting www.reddit to old.reddit without anything extra.
- Grom_PE 3y agoAfter switching browsers, I never actually reinstalled Greasemonkey as uBlock Origin has the capability to inject custom JavaScript. Check "I am an advanced user", then in "Advanced settings" set the parameter to something like: userResourcesLocation file://localhost/home/user/stuff/scriptlets.js And in the scriptlets.js file, text between the line "/// ScriptName.js" and an empty line is considered a separate scriptlet, which you can add to an URL in "My filters" like: news.ycombinator.com##+js(ScriptName.js) The annoying bit is that scriptlets are cached, and to update them, you have to edit the "userResourcesLocation" setting, for that reason I made "scriptlets1.js" a symlink to the original file and switch back and forth whenever I edit it.
- ffpip 3y agoThanks for this! But is a file URL working for you on Windows? http:// http:// URLs are working but file:// urls are not being parsed for me.
- Grom_PE 3y agoIt certainly worked for me when I used Windows. Try either of these: file:///C:/stuff/scriptlets.js file://localhost/C:/stuff/scriptlets.js I must say I wouldn't want to add a remote 3rd party URL to this setting, what if it updates with bad code?
- Pannoniae 3y agoI find it sad how many websites, or even programs have atrociously low information density. In our quest to flat and minimalistic design™, we have managed to lower information density so much that very simple websites require lots of scrolling and menu-opening just to get simple information.
- JTon 3y agoI read a comment on a forum where the user had a job to audit google home voice command and search result alignment. Meaning, did the google home user get what they wanted or not. The forum user made a side comment on how a surprising number of people have horrible diction. Makes me think, maybe low information density is the optimal design for the majority of users.
- Dalewyn 3y agoInformation density as we had it in the 90s and 2000s was far too dense, let's be real. We might have liked it, but most people essentially saw an insurmountable column of text and immediately keeled over, eyes glazed. The response to reduce information density in and of itself is reasonable. What isn't reasonable is how low information density has gotten. Yes, information was too dense before, but now we have the opposite problem: It's not dense enough. There is a fine balance in density that designers seemingly can't seem to find.
- anthk 3y agoNot too dense if you were used to read newspapers and magazines.
- xvello 3y agoProject maintainer here, thanks for posting it! As described in https://letsblock.it/help/about https://letsblock.it/help/about, this project is a home for rules that cannot be included in the default content blocking lists, because everyone has their own definition of low-value content. Our goal is to curate a list of templates that allow you to tune up the signal/noise ratio and avoid distractions. You can just copy-paste rules in your uBlockOrigin / AdGuard settings, but the project is best used by signing-up to create your customized rule list. This gives you automatic updates when rules are improved and updated by the community, and the ability to use that list on all your devices.
- butz 3y agoWhat sad state of internet are we in, when users have to jump through hoops just to make browsing websites a little bit more convenient.
- baal80spam 3y agoEh, for the vast majority of websites I'd say: "usable at all", not just "a little bit more convenient."
- somsak2 3y agointeresting point of view. i think content creators would look at it the other way -- never has it been so easy to steal content as it is on an ad-supported internet.
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoI've never gotten the hang of writing uBO rules for myself. There's a lot more to it than is in the tutorial. Learned about letsblock.it last week through a support request to the uBO project and it has been a great help. It is very good at filtering out low quality search results sites[0]. Additionally it takes the pain out of blocking sites or domains I don't want to see. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794372
- anonymousab 3y agoI wish there was a maintained filter of "video players on news sites".
- xvello 3y agoAgreed! That would be a great template to have in letsblock.it's corpus! Contributions are welcome if you have a ruleset to get us kickstarted.
- dpifke 3y agoI use uBlock Origin for a banlist of sites and keywords that are repeat offenders for off-topic[0] HN posts: https://pifke.org/hn.txt https://pifke.org/hn.txt My rules hide the title line but not the number of comments/points, and sometimes I'll click through stories that have been highly upvoted, to see what I'm missing (rarely anything of interest to me). [0]: I consider "off-topic" to be anything "they'd cover on TV news," per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. A lot of the blocked sites are quite literally TV news sites.
- xvello 3y agoHeya, you can take inspiration the rules I posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676840 for hiding the second line and the separator. I messed up the last newline, the bottom block is the following two lines: news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.spacer + tr:not(.athing):remove() news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.spacer + tr.spacer:remove() I'll make it a letsblock.it template one day.
- rx_tx 3y agoAnother really useful rule I like is for disabling the recommendation overlay that shows up on youtube when you pause a video, which is really annoying. youtube-nocookie.com,youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay, .show-video-thumbnail-button, #rvid
- amznburn 3y ago[dead]
- nipperkinfeet 3y agoThis is my go-to filter for blocking YouTube Shorts garbage.