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uBlock Origin 1.53
- archo 3y agouBlock Origin is a recommended extension[1] Recommended extensions undergo full code review by staff security experts to provide a strong additional security check. [1] - https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/extensions-addons/firefox-recommended-extensions/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/extensions-addo... uBlock Origin – Wiki : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki
- demondemidi 3y agoI’m really surprised 1Password isn’t recommended.
- creatonez 3y agoFor anyone looking for up-to-date information on getting YouTube ad blocking to work: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976
- uoaei 3y agoAd-blocking never stopped working for me. I use a combo of uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and Unhook.
- therein 3y agoAs far as I can tell, they are leaving Silicon Valley IPs to the end of the rollout.
- applecrazy 3y agothis is untrue. located in the bay area and getting dinged hard on most of my devices
- therein 3y agoInteresting. Maybe it is Google Fiber in Bay Area, or something more specific like that. I get it on my devices when I travel outside Bay Area and my friends everywhere else are getting the treatment that people are complaining about. But with just uBlock Origin, haven't seen anything pertaining ads on YouTube on Google Fiber in Bay Area.
- mantra2 3y agoI don’t think they’ve rolled it out to everyone yet.
- pests 3y agoThey haven't. I was hit just last week.
- uoaei 3y agouMatrix breaks so much across the entire internet that I feel like it has an effect here. But I haven't done any tests to confirm that.
- bluescrn 3y agoCurrently doesn't seem to affect logged out users. So I just logged out.
- sphars 3y agoThis explains why I haven't seen the popup yet. I'm logged out on FF, logged in on Chrome (I have premium), but do all casual YT viewing in FF.
- bonton89 3y agoOne of my PCs never had an account and the ad blocker no longer works. My other PC appears to be logged into my throwaway account and the most I ever saw one message about blocking.
- Semaphor 3y agouBO + uMatrix, got the nag and the 3-video warning. Adding "uBlock filters – Annoyances" fixed it for me.
- venatiodecorus 3y agoI used to use uMatrix before it ceased development, but eventually switched over to only uBlock advanced mode. Do you find it still works fine? What cases do you keep uMatrix around for?
- brigandish 3y agoThe UI is superior, in my opinion. Better colours; much clearer about which connections are made or attempted; less interaction with typing out rules or looking at such rules. If I could get the uMatrix "skin" on top of uBlock Origin that would be great.
- freedomben 3y agoYep, and uBO is low resolution compared to uMatrix. I rejoice in being able to decide whether CSS, XHR, scripts, etc should be allowed on each domain. uBO doesn't get that fine grained even in advanced mode
- hypertele-Xii 3y agoAdBlocker Ultimate still works. I just blocked the nagging popup element.
- spartanatreyu 3y agoIn the last year, youtube anti-ad-block only ever occurred to me once and I fixed it in 2 minutes by reading the instructions on that github issue. All I had to do was manually trigger an update for uBlock Origin's filter lists then restart firefox. The filter lists update automatically, but a new youtube change got around them and the filter had a fix inside an hour (too short a time for my extension to auto-update it's filter lists).
- chii 3y agoThis has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube. This is different to other ads, which is a crowdsourced list of filters, and isn't on a small or single individual to keep up. There must be a better way to utilize the crowd to make it work.
- jeron 3y ago> i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube Don’t underestimate what open source can and will do just to spite things they despise
- autoexec 3y ago> This has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube. If UBO stops working, I'll use newpipe, if that stops working I'll use yt-dlp and if that stops working I'll use whatever else people have come up with, and if nobody has anything that gets rid of the ads I'll just stop watching youtube. I don't see that happening though. As long as we have computers that still work for us, I doubt google will come up with a way to stop ad blocking entirely. Maybe we'll have youtube re-release groups that manually edit out the ads and re-upload videos from popular channels to P2P sites. Maybe we'll get AI that can download videos and edit out the ads for us. We'll figure something out.
- thomastsch 3y agoFor those who can't or don't want to install an ad blocker on their device, a youtube viewer bookmarklet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37973944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37973944
- smartbit 3y agoLow resolution, but works great. Thanks.
- flakes 3y agoI've been using uBlock since shortly after it launched, and I'd rather lose access to all Google services than not have an ad blocker. I seriously question how people use a browser without one. Completely changes how the web feels.
- all2 3y agoThis. I've pretty much stopped using YouTube since the adblocker blocker shut me out. I figure it's a good time to kick a bad habit. :D
- TerrifiedMouse 3y agoSame. I only visit when someone links to a video or I absolutely have to to get information. Used to visit YouTube’s front page as part of my daily routine, effectively using it as a social media site - which it definitely is; it’s just that the posts are all videos, the comment section is like every other but moderated by the video poster, and the front page is completely algorithm driven.
- flakes 3y agoOne thing which seriously improves my experience is using the "Block element" feature on non-ads as well. Suggested videos, youtube shorts, banners, etc, all get blocked. Leaves the site much more lean and leaves less distracting visual clutter. I use this strategy on a lot of sites (which sadly includes stackoverflow lately).
- lkuty 3y agoYou might wanna use Unhook.
- flakes 3y agoPotentially, for now I can get away with my custom filter list :) I generally try to limit the total amount of extensions I have on my browser, to a list of tools I feel that I can trust. I apply the same mentality for dependencies in my software. Limits the surface area for supply chain attacks.
- altairprime 3y agoNote that this release is not, as of this comment, finished being published and approved in any of the four browser app stores, so you may not see the new version when using check for updates (if you installed the normal way) until they’ve finished the release process. https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17kw0vc/ublock_origin_153_announcement_thread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17kw0vc/ubloc... has the usual “it hasn’t completed review yet” guidances as well how to rush ahead of the app stores for those that are impatient.
- Jedd 3y agoUnsure of provenance for this link, but it shows your browser's current success / failure state for blocking youtube anti-adware efforts. https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/ https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/
- chii 3y agoIt's not actually showing success in blocking - it's showing whether uBO's filters are up-to-date with the latest youtube scripts. It is possible that youtube has updated, and none of the new ids are put into the pastebin yet, and thus, adblock fails.
- Jedd 3y agoAh, yeah, that's more accurate. I've equated the two so far, but I expect the rate of change by both sides is still ramping up.
- shiroiuma 3y agogorhill should be given a Nobel Prize and a knighthood for contributions to humanity.
- radicalriddler 3y agoHow many Kilowatts has this man saved by computers not having to load trackers and render ad banners!?
- UberFly 3y agoNo kidding. How do we thank this person? Compensate the effort?
- chii 3y agohe has explicitly denied the option for donations, which is excellent moral standing from my POV. However, it does beg the question - how can the community reward people who want to do this sort of work?
- shiroiuma 3y agoPerhaps a gigantic status of him standing over a harbor? Or a national holiday? We should also not forget to give accolades to the heroic people who tirelessly maintain the filter lists.
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- beej71 3y ago"uBO works best on Firefox". I can't say I'm totally shocked that getting it working better under Chrome is somehow more difficult.
- jchook 3y agoChrome now aggressively blocks ad blockers on YouTube.com
- skrebbel 3y agoHmmm source? I know youtube does but I didnt know Chrome does.
- theshrike79 3y agoSite and browser owned by the largest ad company in the world don't want you to block ads. News at 11.
- theshrike79 3y ago(If you disagree, don't just click the down arrow, argue your point.)
- skrebbel 3y agoConsider making a coherent argument maybe? I asked whether for sources on a specific (and, if true, unprecedented) accusation, and you say some generalities that, I think, imply that of course they would do that! That doesn’t address my question at all. But to be fair I’m not even sure that that was your argument. It’s customary on HN to downvote comments without much substance. (Fwiw I didn’t downvote it)
- fsflover 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38095197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38095197
- randomdev3 3y agonever had an issue with YouTube. At least until now they only try to block blockers if you are signed in. And there really is no reason to login to watch videos.
- Twirrim 3y agoA nice little Quality Of Life improvement for me with uBlock Origin recently has been using it top block Confluence's pop ups when someone has commented on a page I'm reading. We use Confluence to do document reviews at work, and sitting there attempting to read a document while Confluence is popping up that annoying dialogue box over and over again as people comment on the doc is insanely annoying. With uBlock Origin I was able to (after a few false attempts) sniff the specific element and filter it out.
- 0xedb 3y agoI used it to block Twitter's ad bugging me to pay. Funny thing is I can't use the paid version since it's not available in my country. However, the popup kept bugging me
- janpio 3y agoGitHub notifications blue dot for me. Not seeing it makes me click that button much less, only when I _want_ to handle notifications.
- nathansherburn 3y agoThank you! I can't believe I never thought to do this!
- climb_stealth 3y agoAgreed, I love it for things like this. Someone puts a big bright yellow and red banner on the top of confluence or Jira weeks in advance to notify about upcoming outages. I really couldn't care less about those and it's perfect to get rid of them.
- iamalchemist 3y agoHow is UBO on Google Chrome different than Brave browser? Context - I've used UBO on Google Chrome in the past and now using Brave browser for the last few years. I don't see much difference how web feels with UBO and Brave.
- nextlevelwizard 3y agouBlock blocks ads while Brave deliberately shows you ads and gives you monopoly tokens.
- 8organicbits 3y agoI think that's opt in now: > But if you choose to see Brave Ads, you can earn. https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
- arbol 3y agoBrave ad blocker is not as good as UBO. You need to install UBO if you use brave.
- arpanetus 3y agoI switched to Brave from Chromium + UBO. Despite seeing some ads, it's still comfier to use vanilla Brave than Chromium + UBO.
- andirk 3y agoBrave browser isn't necessarily blocking advertisements as much as it is blocking scripts that are naughty, and those naughty scripts are very popular in ads and ad networks. And the Basic Attention Token concept is something I hope takes off since the current state of online advertising is pretty abysmal.
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- tedunangst 3y ago"Do not add filters from untrusted sources." Interesting addition.
- codeflo 3y agoFrom the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker initialization has a race condition with restoring the last opened tabs. What a weird little “accident” that Chromium just moves forward and loads all the trackers, “oopsie”. I wonder which kind of promotion the engineer who made that “mistake” has been awarded.
- Already__Taken 3y ago[flagged]
- throwaway141455 3y ago"I want my browser to load ads as fast as possible" is an interesting take
- haunter 3y agoWhy did you make a new account just for this comment?
- skrebbel 3y agoSome people have a weird habit of creating a throwaway account for every comment they make, no matter how mundane. I’m not sure what the rationale is, something privacy-ish i guess?
- ploum 3y agocould it be automated?
- networkchad 3y ago
- iza 3y agoIs there something significant about this release? I read the changelog but nothing really stands out to me.
- a2dam 3y agoI was going to ask the same thing. Why is this on the top of the front page?
- saos 3y agoWondering the same. Will it bypass YouTube latest efforts
- ls612 3y agoI think they made it a lot easier for people to keep up to date with the YT fixes. They added a feature for clicking a specially crafted URL to update a specific filter list. That will allow them to tell people who get the YT popup to “just click this link”.
- jchook 3y agoGoogle's Chrome browser now aggressively thwarts uBlock on YouTube.com. Since Firefox is not owned by Google, uBlock still works.
- cornedor 3y agoIsn't this just asking for an antitrust case? There is no way I implement this for my own site.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoImplement what? Anti-ad-blocking?
- cornedor 3y ago> Google's Chrome browser now aggressively thwarts uBlock on YouTube.com. If the browser just does block ad-blocking on YouTube. If I would be hosting a video platform, can I add my site to the list?
- totallyhuman 3y agoThere's already an ongoing antitrust case against Google, so they could be banking on the fact that if it fails there likely won't be enough political capital to go after them again.
- kriro 3y agoI have been hit a lot by the adblock-block and my default browser for youtube was Chrome with uBlock. There was some back and forth and it still worked around 50% of the time. I took the oportunity to try the youtube experience on a brand new clean browser, not logged in. My seed recommendations were 80% right wing and conspiracy material. I humored the algorithm a bit and after three days I was basically in a right wing/anti science/flat and hollow earth bubble. An interesting experience to say the least. It is basically the opposite of my real world interests. I'd describe myself as libertarian and love to learn about different cultures and I do work in academia. I have since cut my youtube viewing by about 50-80% and am not using Chrome anymore (except for testing/security). Great success Google and thanks for all the idiotic brainwashing content. I do get that youtube needs to make money somehow and adds are the way. Unfortunately the experienc is so bad, perormance is suffering etc. that I'd rather have no youtube than youtube with adds.
- nullandvoid 3y agoI find YT is only useable via the following combination of extensions these days - Ublock (still works for me, maybe it's a Firefox thing) - News feed eradictor (hides reccomended vids) - Pocket tube (how subscription management should have been) - Sponsorblock (auto skip sponsors which are typically gambling or predatory games)
- lionkor 3y agothe new adblock detection stuff is apparently being A/B tested, some see it, some dont. I run firefox + ublock + sponsorblock and the entire videoplayer is replaced by a "adblockers break ToS" thing and i cant use youtube at all.
- carlosjobim 3y agoIf you're having a bad experience, that is pretty much your own fault. Make a new account or refresh the history on your old account and then spend 10 minutes subscribing to quality channels and you will not have any low-quality recommendations from YouTube.
- loughnane 3y agoYesterday I figured out how to block cards in my LI feed that contained certain words. Here's the one for things containing "excited to" ``` www.linkedin.com##.relative:has-text(/excited to/i)``` between that, blocking images, and user taglines my feed is much more concise and readable.
- lolinder 3y agoThis is cool, but sincere question: what is even left after you block all the fluff? I rarely bother to go to my LinkedIn feed, but when I do it's all fluff that I don't need to see. Is there actually value buried somewhere under there?
- Flammy 3y agoIMO I care much more about contacts changing jobs, getting laid off, and talking about their side projects than anything else. I probably should see if someone has a linkedin script to remove non-1st connection content.
- bloopernova 3y agouBlock Origin can also be used to modify the DOM or CSS in specific URLs via its "My Filters" screen. For instance, I use it to switch HackerNews to dark mode, and restrict the width of comments to about 10-12 words: https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/c39c83f2f97c3c6b1c307c19e516ed6e https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/c39c83f2f97c3c6b1c307c... It's a great alternative to GreaseMonkey or other user style extensions.
- flutas 3y agoThanks for the gist. I tweaked it a tiny bit since overscroll on FF on osx was showing as white, figured I'd share it back. It's not perfect, but the BG color differences are close enough to not bother me. ! Invert the colours of the site, making a dark mode that I like ! `invert(95%)` does most of the work, ! but you can tweak the hue-rotate value to fine tune the colours news.ycombinator.com##body:style(filter:invert(95%) hue-rotate(200deg); background: white) news.ycombinator.com##html:style(background: black)`
- bloopernova 3y agoHey that's good stuff, thank you!
- freedomben 3y agoThe one killer feature I hope for is feature parity with uMatrix. If advanced mode had the ability to filter based on type (CSS, XHR, script, cookie, image, media, other) it would be a glorious day! uMatrix has completely changed how I use and experience the web, and going away from it (even to uBO) is such a big downgrade that I don't know what I'll do on the day it stops working D-:
- unforgivenpasta 3y agoI have almost 1500 rows in the "My filters list" (comments and blank lines included) I couldn't think of how horrible the web browsing experience would be without uBlock Origin
- rrgok 3y agoI wish for a law where it would make illegal to show/put ads on any product without the consent of the consumer/user. The same should be applied to that cookie non-sense. Default: no cookies and website should ask for permission to enable them. Or make it an option in the browser setting to reject all cookies.
- Modified3019 3y agoI currently use fadblock for youtube, which seems more resiliant against googles changes: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
- Shufen1 3y ago[flagged]
- zare_st 3y agoI run Firefox+uBlock origin on multiple computers and OSs and haven't been affected. I'm always logged into YT. If it's true that YT is actively trying to avoid ad blockers then I guess I may have been pushed down their priority list because I occasionally run a video or two while logged in on my phone via official app where ads actually run.
- Qhai 3y agoHaha