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by gorhill 11y ago
> we have gone a little bit overboard on the advertising Quite an understatement. I will repeat myself: visible ads are the tip of the tracking/data-mining iceberg. Not seeing ads is not a sign that a site is more respectful of its
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by gorhill 11y ago
Adblock Fast is like BluHell -- last time I looked into it, the seven huge regexes were a direct import from BluHell. I ran a mini-benchmark for which I reported the results here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1019899
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by gorhill 11y ago
Oops, right, I meant "wholesale".
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by gorhill 11y ago
One doesn't even need to turn off uBlock if one disagrees with the wholesome blocking of sourceforge.net: right in the warning page, uBlock Origin offers the user to remove temporarily or permanently the wholesome blocking for the site
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by gorhill 11y ago
I updated the benchmarks (I published first back in March) for Firefox 41 and Chromium 45. Results: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Firefox-version:-benc...
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by gorhill 11y ago
> EasyList is maintained by ABP's parent company EasyList/EasyPrivacy are community-driven filter lists.[1] Whatever whitelisting in EasyList/EasyPrivacy is to address site breakage. Not addressing site breakage would lead
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by gorhill 11y ago
Good point, I didn't think of this... I looked and it does indeed invite users to rate it in at the top of its options page. So as far as I am concerned this explains the difference. I could probably quantify how much this works by add
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by gorhill 11y ago
> This argument is based on the premise, however, that display ads are the only (or the main) way of monetizing the web while keeping the content free Reality is that paying for content is no guarantee ads will go away. I already said th
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by gorhill 11y ago
I use "medium mode" in uBlock[1], which causes only 3rd-party scripts/frames to be blocked, not 1st-party ones. I could read the article fine, I had no idea there were issues with overlays with it, and it otherwise rendered f
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by gorhill 11y ago
A personal observation in the Chrome store. I created an extension which I published in the Chrome store. I did notice a curious statistics with another similar purpose extension, which is also quite popular -- both are over 1 million users
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by gorhill 11y ago
This can be fixed by blocking inline-script.
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by gorhill 11y ago
> publishers saying that there’s an implicit agreement that they’ll give you lots of content for free Except that it's not free, the costs are obfuscated. There are people/entities earning revenues as a result of the ads/t
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by gorhill 11y ago
92 MB is atypical. There are a whole lot of pitfalls to take care before comparing memory figures between two extensions, and in all my benchmarks I take care to avoid these pitfalls in order to not fool myself, as I use these benchmarks to
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by gorhill 11y ago
The article you linked too says: > In contrast, adblockers like Adblock Plus rely on javascript’s built in regular expression parser This is not accurate for uBlock Origin. A majority of network filters in EasyList, EasyPrivacy, etc. do
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by gorhill 11y ago
uBlock Origin is packaged with all the filter lists which are selected by default: EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe's, etc. This ensures that it will work out of the box immediately even if the respective remote servers are not respon
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by gorhill 11y ago
> Measuring peak CPU is very, very stupid I think it's pretty obvious that the expression "peak CPU usage" implies "peak average CPU usage over a period of time", for the simple fact that literal "peak CPU
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by gorhill 11y ago
> umatrix needs permission to disable prefetching so no network connections are made for blocked sites Disabling pre-fetching is to prevent a TCP connection to be established at all, and this is something that needs to be also dealt with
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by gorhill 11y ago
> naming and shaming the advertising network that is allowing this exploit through The person who found and reported the exploit said this particular exploit did not originate from an ad server[1]. Without disabling javascript, I have al
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by gorhill 11y ago
> The exploit was simply injected on every news article page through an iframe Was the "src" of the iframe 3rd-party to the web site? I want to know whether merely blocking 3rd-party iframes would also have prevented the exploi
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by gorhill 11y ago
> Most sites, almost all, would break if browsers suddenly disallowed third party scripts You would be surprised how many sites still render fine with blocking 3rd-party scripts. For instance, the OP article on "threatpost.com"
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by gorhill 11y ago
> Unfortunately the View Pocket List menu entry in Bookmarks menu cannot easily be removed. It will be removed if you remove the Pocket icon using the (right-click) contextual menu on the icon. The entry is not removed if you remove manu
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by gorhill 11y ago
> it says the ad was displayed/clicked on a webpage Where exactly does it say this?
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by gorhill 11y ago
Default-deny is the best answer against bloat -- though not for everybody unfortunately, but I did try to make it as straightforward as possible with uBlock Origin[1]. Using default-deny in uBlock Origin/Chromium[2] and with the page d
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by gorhill 11y ago
The real issue is WebRTC exposing your ISP address when behind a VPN. If you are not behind a VPN, it is expected that your ISP address is visible -- WebRTC or not.
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by gorhill 11y ago
> so many adblockers out there [...] key differentiator to ABP is that they don't allow ads on default Adguard has "acceptable ads" enabled by default.
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by gorhill 11y ago
> Sometimes I want more than blocked something being displayed That's what the logger is for: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/The-logger#creating-f...
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by gorhill 11y ago
Using the same filter lists in uBlock and ABP will results in the same blocking behavior: It's all in the filter lists.
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by gorhill 11y ago
> completely censor Hyperbole. This merely acts as a warning. Notice the buttons at the bottom to disable the blocking temporarily or permanently.
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by gorhill 11y ago
> No, its main purpose is blocking ads I am well placed to speak about the main purpose of uBlock Origin. Here, from front page of the project: > uBlock Origin (or uBlock₀) is not an ad blocker; it's a general-purpose blocker [..
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by gorhill 11y ago
> I want to choose what I block on each page https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu... uBlock doesn't restrict itself to a set list of domains (Ghostery), it will show you all

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