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Adblock Plus is showing a fake progress bar after updating
- Dwedit 3y agoDo you know anyone who is still using Adblock Plus?
- LeoPanthera 3y agoIt is the second most-installed Firefox extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?sort=users&type=extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?sort=users&...
- kossTKR 3y agoIsn't uBlock origin the much better option for Firefox? And if so there should be some community effort to remove these scammy and deceptive alternatives.
- sshine 3y agoI switched away from AdBlock Plus when they started not removing ads that paid ABP for that service. It’s just less good. Has a great name, though.
- LeoPanthera 3y agoYes. I'm not sure what your point is, though.
- kossTKR 3y agoJust curious if uBlock was still king as i'm using Safari/Orion since some time ago because of battery life.
- e2le 3y ago>It is the second most-installed Firefox extension The second most popular extension is "Video DownloadHelper". ABP holds 5th place, it has being experiencing a decline in popularity for quite some time. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior
- LeoPanthera 3y agoThat's interesting, so the numbers on the extension site are wrong?
- e2le 3y agoI'm not sure. That does seem strange.
- caffeinewriter 3y agoIt could be cumulative users on the addons page, and week-to-week usage statistics for the addons on the data page.
- sys_64738 3y agoIs pihole the best solution for all this Manifest v3 stuff that Chrome is about to dump on the universe?
- miloignis 3y agoNo, that'd be Firefox + UBlock Origin. I believe that the DNS based blocking that pihole does would be similar to the blocklist type blocking that Chrome with manifest v3 offers. I belive the advantages of pihole are most for blocking ads on devices without an adblocker installed, like your TV or w/e.
- 3np 3y agopihole is only doing DNS filtering. Can still be good but not at all similar to the content filtering that can be done by client-side extensions. It's also becoming less effective over time due to increased adoption of domain-fronting and DoT/DoH. To get there with a hosted appliance you can run on a Raspberry Pi, you'd neet an intercepting and rewriting HTTPS proxy with the TLS certificates trusted by the client. Possible (corporates and ISPs/governments do this) but a lot more effort and security footguns than blackholing DNS lookups. Sidenote: Most HTTPS packets will still carry the destination domain unencrypted (ECH is still not widely adopted and can be filtered). So even if DoT prevents pihole from being effective, you can still route all your HTTPS traffic through something like sniproxy and drop packages based on SNI extension information. You won't need to set up certicates for this and pretty straightforward on any Linux/BSD router.
- manuelmoreale 3y agoI don’t think you have to pick one or the other. Run pihole and then put an adblocker on the client. That’s how I roll personally. NextDNS + 1Blocker / uBlock
- mksybr 3y agoPiHole was good but blocked less compared to uBlock Origin when I tested it a few months ago. https://canyoublockit.com/ https://canyoublockit.com/
- baxuz 3y ago
- ceuk 3y agoI do. Should I not be?
- ramon156 3y agoUblock >>
- calamari4065 3y agoDepends on how much you care about privacy I guess. Everyone I know switched to uBlock after AdBlock introduced their "acceptable ad" program. It very quickly turned into "pay us to not block your ads". Now they're intentionally disrupting and nagging users to give them money. What "premium" features can an ad blocker even have? Why pay AdBlock, who does not care about your security or privacy, when uBlock exists, is free, and is generally better all around? I find these kinds of practices entirely unacceptable so I don't use them.
- pinewurst 3y agoForced to use it as the least objectionable Safari blocker.
- soraminazuki 3y agoEyeo is the most objectionable entity in the adblocking space. Adguard, 1Blocker, Wipr, or literally any other Safari adblocker is better than ABP.
- n42 3y agoWhat is objectionable about AdGuard?
- pinewurst 3y agoI haven’t looked at AdGuard. I was happily using uBlock Origin until Apple switched to only allowing downloaded block lists instead of a real programmatic ad block. At that point, ABP seemed the most reasonable choice as there’s no longer much differentiation.
- theodric 3y agoAdblock Plus reportedly has 50 to 60 million users per month, so taking the conservative number, at 8 unnecessary seconds per update they're wasting 12.68 years of aggregate human life with each update animation cycle: 8 seconds *50M years=400M seconds/60/60/24/365=12.68 years. How many updates do they push per year? How many lifetimes do they waste? Feels criminal to me, intuitively.
- hyperhello 3y agoBut now do the math for not blocking ads.
- theodric 3y agoTwo wrongs do not make a right nor justify employing dark patterns
- leotravis10 3y agoNitter mirror for those who can't see the thread due to loginwall: https://nitter.unixfox.eu/gorhill/status/1735718771908628724 https://nitter.unixfox.eu/gorhill/status/1735718771908628724