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Never forget that Adblock Plus is a commercial product developed by a company which you can pay to get your ads listed as "acceptable ads" which makes them pass
by martin_a 3y ago
Never forget that Adblock Plus is a commercial product developed by a company which you can pay to get your ads listed as "acceptable ads" which makes them pass the filtering.
uBlock Origin is still probably the best tool for blocking ads: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/ https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
- hendersoon 3y agoIndeed, and unlike the morally unacceptable Adblock Plus, uBlock Origin continues to work on YouTube ads, although you will have to manually update your filter lists every day or so.
- breakall 3y agoi love ublock origin and have used it for years. i recently migrated to macos and was disappointed to find that ublock origin doesn’t work with safari. what’s the best ad-blocking option for safari on macos?
- occz 3y agoWhy not just use Firefox? It's available on macOS.
- funnyflywheel 3y agoThe first thing that came to mind was "switch to Firefox". Other than that, I have nothing to recommend.
- Yeri 3y agoI heard good things about Wipr (paid product) but don't use it myself on OSX. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1320666476?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1320666476?mt=12
- tizio13 3y agoI currently use 1blocker(paid version) and it seems to be working pretty well compared to Firefox with ublock. I use it both on iOS and macOS. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-ad-blocker/id1365531024 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-ad-blocker/id13655310...
- Josteniok 3y agoI use Firefox with uBlock Origin on the Mac and it works great, but for Safari the best option I've found is AdGuard (https://adguard.com https://adguard.com). However, it is nowhere near as effective as uBlock Origin since Safari did the Manifest V3 thing.
- lapcat 3y ago> since Safari did the Manifest V3 thing. More accurately, Safari removed support for webRequest BlockingResponse in 2019. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/webRequest/BlockingResponse https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... This was unrelated to Manifest V3, and in fact Safari has not deprecated Manifest V2. Manifest V3 does remove support for webRequest BlockingResponse in Chrome, but I believe not in Firefox.
- tortoise_in 3y agoBut then again we have to buy apple anyhow
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- hoorible 3y ago1Blocker already mentioned, but it is is absolutely fantastic. The iOS version also blocks in-app trackers (in other apps, outside of Safari) and YouTube app ads via its firewall feature.
- Condition1952 3y agoLittle Snitch, a proprietary firewall, subscribed to some ad blocking lists can block surveillance system-wide
- backtick 3y agoThere's a webkit based browser called Orion that I've been trying out that supports chrome extensions. That's the closest thing I think.
- jostyee 3y agoOrion has issues loading uBlock Origin on new tabs, see: https://orionfeedback.org/d/718-ublock-origin-doesnt-work-sometimes https://orionfeedback.org/d/718-ublock-origin-doesnt-work-so...
- TheRoque 3y agoI learned the other day that the developer(s ?) of uBlock origin don't even accept donation. That's a really dedicated behavior for someone owning on app installed on probably a million devices, that could make money in an instant if he wanted to.
- mschuster91 3y agotbh, that scares me, simply because of the potential that one day, someone will offer enough money that it can't reasonably be expected from anyone to decline that offer.
- beej71 3y agoIs ubo under an open source license? If so, it would instantly fork.
- MallocVoidstar 3y agoGPLv3: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
- tgsovlerkhgsel 3y agoIt reassures me. Because if gorhill cared about money, he would have a 100% ethical, simple way to immediately open the floodgates and make a five- to six-digit amount per year. This suggests to me that he doesn't need nor care about having more money, and will be very hard to corrupt by offering money. How do you bribe a person that has free money with no strings attached offered to them and says "no thanks"?
- gcanyon 3y agoI have uBlock Origin installed in Arc, and ended up getting burned by the YouTube adblocking blocking purge because each time the warning came up, I checked to see if there was a way to whitelist YT and didn't find it. Now I'm watching YT in Safari on my iPad, where the block doesn't apply. So: anyone know how to whitelist YT in uBlock Origin in Arc?
- martin_a 3y agoI had that warning some days ago, too. It's gone now, not sure what changed in the filter lists.
- Nexxxeh 3y agoI can't give you Arc specifics, but the /r/uBlockOrigin subreddit are generally on the ball. May be worth a check! https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/ https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/
- hanzd 3y agoI use arc with uBlock, i simple refresh the page and the warning goes away.
- _lvbh 3y agoUse invidious. You can import your subscriptions really easily. I self host my own instance on an old laptop (exposed via WireGuard to my server. I connect via local IP when at home)
- pitdicker 3y agoAround 2010 I started playing with Adblock Plus, and provided a translation for a while. Wladimir Palant was a friendly, responsive, and as I understand it respected developer. There were not countless adblockers, just Adblock and Adblock Plus. Adblock was abandoned, and Adblock Plus was were the innovation and performance improvements were happening. Adblock Plus was there in the first controversies around adblocking ethics. It 'took care' of the first lawsuit. It did a lot of good work that the later adblockers benefit from. Personally I have never been a fan of the acceptable ads feature. But it comes from that time, and offers a middle ground in the adblocking ethics debate, and a way to finance legal troubles. Now I have not been involved in a very long time (Using uBlock Origin and whatever filters are default), but just condemning Adblock Plus outright is a bit too quick.
- mbirth 3y agoAlso don’t forget that they inserted their own affiliate codes into URLs to Amazon at some point. https://web.archive.org/web/20220817235820/https://www.mobilegeeks.de/adblock-plus-undercover-einblicke-in-ein-mafioeses-werbenetzwerk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220817235820/https://www.mobil... (German)
- didntcheck 3y agoIs there a reliable source on being able to buy your way past the requirements? The last time I heard this story (like a decade ago), the author was asking large ad networks to pay to have their ads reviewed (and quite possible rejected), rather than him working for free when they have plenty of cash around. I don't see the problem with that The acceptable ads program was another bluff-call, where people who had been claiming "I only object to intrusive ads. If there was a way to only allow passive and well-behaved ads I'd allow them!" got their alleged wish and then got angry about it