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by gorhill 10y ago
uBlock Origin ("uBO") isn't blocking the visualisations on that page. The only way I could reproduce such issue is by blocking 1st-party scripts, definitely not a default settings in uBO.
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by gorhill 10y ago
Major differences are: - In uBlock Origin you can allow/block on a per-site basis with one click -- you do not need to allow one specific domain everywhere. (I am aware NoScript's ABE can get the same result, but that requires mor
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by gorhill 10y ago
I did try to provide a fix for the history-lost case for when a popunder is blocked, but in the end I had to give up because there was no way to make it work reliably (using current extensions API). [1] https://github.com/go
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by gorhill 11y ago
In Min, it's still javascript[1]. Also, by the look of it, the current implementation in Min is very inefficient: for every network request, all the filters will be evaluated to check for a match. Statistically, on average the majori
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by gorhill 11y ago
If you are using uBlock Origin, Forbes' anti-blocker is bypassed with default settings.
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by gorhill 11y ago
One thing I do when I benchmark is to provide all details so that other people can try to reproduce -- anybody can investigate the figures I report. There is not enough details for me to reproduce here: no sample of which web pages were use
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by gorhill 11y ago
> Looks like the link I was using just redirects to the new site. There is no redirection: you are using "ublock.org" directly in your source code. I consider "ublock.org" to be a scam[1], and I consider your page to
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by gorhill 11y ago
> does that mean that it allows their ads/tracking? No. > how is that better? Why ask the question at all if you already made up your mind about the answer?
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by gorhill 11y ago
> exemptions for first party scripts only uBlock Origin's advanced mode supports this: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
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by gorhill 11y ago
> it is irresponsible, populist and ultimately self-defeating for uBlock and chums to block self-hosted Piwik First, a precision: EasyPrivacy blocks Piwik. uBlock Origin enables EasyPrivacy by default. If you think it's wrong for Pi
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by gorhill 11y ago
Here: http://cnn.com/ - Opera 37 + uBO: Average (valid): 2280.89 ms (11/16 iterations) - Opera 37 + built-in: Average (valid): 2113.47 ms (11/12 iterations) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ - O
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by gorhill 11y ago
Opera 37 dev version is available for linux, so I installed it to perform my own measurements. The example given in Opera's blog post is not very useful, they tested a lightweight page with only one network request blocked. That page l
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by gorhill 11y ago
> Opera is blocking more ads than uBlock Origin Source? Or at least some specific details on how I could reproduce myself this? In case the number of network requests was used to measure this (assuming Opera reports the number of networ
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by gorhill 11y ago
Personally I will always be quite uncomfortable when the blocking of ads/tracking/data mining is provided by those with (not necessarily direct) links to the ads/tracking/data mining industry. My view on this is that thi
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by gorhill 11y ago
No content is hidden from my side[1] -- I am using default filter lists. Poster must have some custom filters, or using some other 3rd-party filter list which causes this. The logger would tell why content is blocked on his side. [1] http:
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by gorhill 11y ago
> Why not uBlock? It's a LONG way from newbie friendly How is this? It's an install and forget blocker, requires no fiddling out of the box/ You fiddle with its settings only if you want to, it has no install page.
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by gorhill 11y ago
Be sure your uMatrix HOSTS files are up to date, I can see a `inc.com` in the packaged Peter Lowe's list, it seems this has been removed at some point.
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by gorhill 11y ago
Block `twimg.com` and see the count climbing to over 460 -- because of the avatars in the comment section. Personally I block such ubiquitous hostnames by default (using uBO's dynamic filtering), as they are as good as trackers (for Tw
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by gorhill 11y ago
> I'm sure gorhill would certainly give his blessing Not only my blessing, I would be happy to work on whatever is deemed necessary to integrate into TAILS. A volunteer worked to make uBlock Origin part of Debian earlier this month:
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by gorhill 11y ago
> And it sometimes bases those filters on personal grudges That I hold "personal grudges" is your personal opinion. I took care to document the rationale behind my decision to block `sourceforge.net`[1]. Notice that it is not a
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by gorhill 11y ago
> without costing the end user anything The logical consequence of such statement is that the ad brokers/trackers/data miners pay themselves by printing their own money. Of course this makes no sense, and thus the statement is
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by gorhill 11y ago
It's the signal to noise ratio which matters. I would say the page is 100% signal and 0% noise.
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by gorhill 11y ago
I did get the message, clicked "Continue", did get the message again, clicked "Continue" again then it worked -- without having to disable uBO. Edit: ok I also get the issue after I clear all the cookies for forbes.com.
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by gorhill 11y ago
Wow... For perspective, gnome-calculator[1] is 648KB and works fine with 17281580835365214242. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Calculator
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by gorhill 11y ago
The fix works only for Firefox-based browsers, because it makes use of inline script tag filtering[1] which does not work on chromium, because it does not support `beforescriptexecute`[2]. The work around for Chromium-based browsers is to w
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by gorhill 11y ago
Version 1.4.0 of uBlock Origin adds the ability to redirect a blocked resource to a local, neutered version of the resource. FuckAdblock is part of the available neutered resources: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock&#x
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by gorhill 11y ago
You are linking to uBlock Origin ("uBO") -- that filter list is specific to uBO. The other "uBlock"[1] (abandonware) does not support strict blocking, which is what blocks SourceForge. [1] https://github.com&#
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by gorhill 11y ago
This has already been added to uBO's filters: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/ba05804060ec7c4399c...
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by gorhill 11y ago
> uBlock Origin can be used to block requests made [...] by extensions This is no longer true for the Chromium version. There were changes in Chromium which now prevent extensions from being able to inspect/block network requests ma
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by gorhill 11y ago
Imagine a new device to read and record people's thoughts at all time is invented. That UK surveillance bill is "worse than scary" because according to how its proponents/supporters rationalize it, the logical consequenc

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