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by gorhill 10y ago
> it would be cool if uBlock reported when a call from another extension has been blocked That is the purpose of the built-in logger[1]. By default uBO is not setup to block other extensions' network requests, or those made by the
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by gorhill 10y ago
> Am I missing something ? Be skeptical of claims which come with no technical details whatsoever to help you reproduce it?
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by gorhill 10y ago
> uBlock Origin adds several seconds to Firefox startup time It loads quite fast on Firefox, see https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Launch-and-filter-lis... -- see "Setup time" graph, typical
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by gorhill 10y ago
Another submission was marked as "dupe" of this one. Since it has comments in it, I will link to it from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12472671
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by gorhill 10y ago
> The authors conducted a large-scale study of browser extensions from the Chrome web store and found that many extensions tamper with the CSP of a page. Hence, they propose an endorsement mechanism that allowed an extension to ask the w
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by gorhill 10y ago
There 3 gif images in there which represent a total of 9 MB. I suggest you use the "Block media elements by size" feature in uBO. See: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
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by gorhill 10y ago
> and most certainly does contain non-free javascript You do not have to execute any javascript for the article to be read properly -- maybe it's what matter from his point of view.
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by gorhill 10y ago
Ghostery will report what it knows, what is part of its database. If we measure using distinct 3rd-party servers, I counted 92 of them: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/585534/18037421/6... All this
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by gorhill 10y ago
> thankfully adblockers block Tealium tag manager by default anyway Most ad blocker do not block Tealium by default. For blockers such as Adblock Plus or AdBlock, one must explicitly enable EasyPrivacy (which is enabled by default in uBl
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by gorhill 10y ago
> the entire AMP version is supposed to be cached by Google Does this means there is no way to opt out of connecting to a Google-controlled server in order for any AMP-based page to display properly?
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by gorhill 10y ago
This made me wonder: Maybe returning these lands to their wild state can also be good for humanity when looking at it from another angle than just food production. Something to also consider.
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by gorhill 10y ago
> Unfortunately, an invisible wall is still present and you can't really scroll with the mouse That's right, I failed to see this when I created a filter for Quora. I should be able to fix this with an extra filter. Edit: this
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by gorhill 10y ago
The link to CONTRIBUTING appears at the top of the issue template when one click the "New issue" button. This the top line which appears when opening a new issue: > Read first: < https://github.com/gorhill&#x2
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by gorhill 10y ago
To just respect the guideline to contributing shouldn't be too much to ask keeping in mind the time and work I happily volunteer to this project. Given the amount of invalid issues that keep being opened[1], asking me to spend time to
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by gorhill 10y ago
The "seeing more ads" is baseless, I can easily provide cases where it is the opposite, because ABP is vulnerable to the "display: block !important" trick used by many web sites on Chromium-based browsers, is unable to b
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by gorhill 10y ago
For uBlock Origin, it makes a big difference: it has its own custom filter lists which make use of extended filter syntax[1]: resource redirection, script injection, more cosmetic filtering options (through which the FB issue is taken care
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by gorhill 10y ago
One was opened in the proper tracker issue and fixed: < https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/98> .
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by gorhill 10y ago
> scrambling DOM classes and ids with no discernable pattern That's why I have been beefing up the DOM filtering code in the latest versions -- there are already sites doing this. There is a lot of untapped potential with the new op
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by gorhill 10y ago
uBlock Origin alone is equipped to handle Wired's anti-blocker.
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by gorhill 10y ago
> Then what? If one agree with ads as a mean to fund specific sites, then they should just whitelist themselves these sites they think should receive advertisement revenues? I don't get the idea of bringing in even more 3rd partie
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by gorhill 10y ago
Unlike other add-ons you disable, Pocket will still always be in memory after you disable it. See `about:memory`.
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by gorhill 10y ago
I sure hope they remove Pocket. I find disturbing that even after I removed Pocket as per official instruction[1] and restart the browser, I can still see it in there as per `about:memory`: 0.10 MB (00.04%) ++ firefox@getpocket.com&#x
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by gorhill 10y ago
> Very interesting if true. It is true. See documentation => https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts#exec... : > Content scripts execute in a special environment called an isolated world . The
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by gorhill 10y ago
> don't use it to parse things that have rigorous standards describing them Where a regex must be used, there is a reference regex for parsing URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-B Edit: a perma
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by gorhill 10y ago
I just checked, they are still using their anti-blocker on other articles, but for this specific article it does not kick-in.
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by gorhill 10y ago
The fix for Wired is part of uBO itself. I don't know if there is an extra fix in Reek's list, but in any case Reek's list is meant to be used with Reek's user script. So you should have the fix with default settings. So
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by gorhill 10y ago
> They haven't replied back. I am responsible for uBlock Origin (the other uBlock is abandonware), and I haven't received anything from you. In any case, my answer would have been that I am not responsible of the content of 3rd
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by gorhill 10y ago
I am assuming you are using uBO in "medium mode"[1]? If so, simply locally noop-ing `static-economist.com` will allow the page to render fine. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode
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by gorhill 10y ago
Though hosts files can be fed to uBlock Origin ("uBO"), it will enforce their content differently. With uBO, a "facebook.com" entry in a hosts file will also cause all subdomains of "facebook.com" to also be
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by gorhill 10y ago
> I believe in compensating creators for their content and would rather compensate them with my time than my money. But there is money involved, a lot of 3rd parties inserting themselves between you and the creators are getting paid real

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