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by gorhill 12y ago
> EasyPrivacy‎ [...] it entirely disables Google Analytics on every site You are mistaken. Unless it changed since I ran the benchmark, EasyPrivacy doesn't always block Google Analytics. See diff of uBlock vs. ABP, both with EasyPri
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by gorhill 12y ago
Here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#cpu The details of the benchmark (if you want to reproduce) are in the spreadsheet linked in the caption.
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by gorhill 12y ago
uBlock will do it for you while keeping the point-and-click ability to un-block on a per-site basis. For example, a site which breaks if it can't connect to Facebook.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bzB6tESynM
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by gorhill 12y ago
Unfortunately, even with EasyPrivacy and "Fanboy's Social Blocking", you will find that blockers (ABP, AdBlock, uBlock, etc) do not prevent 100% connecting to Facebook, Twitter, and whatnot.[1] This is one of the reasons I se
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by gorhill 12y ago
I did warn on that page: > You can't compare directly the figures between the browsers Still, yes, Chromium uses more memory. A good part of this is because per-process tab. Once Firefox get the same per-process tab architecture, it
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by gorhill 12y ago
Embedded Disqus works fine from here. If you have a URL where there is a problem, enter an issue on Github [0] -- and enumerate which filter lists you have selected. Usually it all comes down to the filter lists, in which case I redirect to
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by gorhill 12y ago
> It is often blocking the false positives It's the filter lists. Use the same filter lists with any other blockers which support ABP-filter syntax, and you will get the same result. > named one of their assets file with social m
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by gorhill 12y ago
> ublock also blocks api.google.com There is no filter which matches "api.google.com", so this can't be blocked, unless you have a custom filter which does that. > also breaks a lot of sites that uses the google common
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by gorhill 12y ago
> we are buying our hardware precisely for this - to be used I have a counterargument page dedicated to apologists of inefficient software: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Who-cares-about-effic...
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by gorhill 12y ago
Any extension popup UI, which appears when you click an extension icon. The more complicated the HTML document in the popup, the larger the leak.
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by gorhill 12y ago
There are two kind of filters: cosmetic ("element hiding") and network filters. Network filters = to prevent the fetching of remote resources. Cosmetic filters = to prevent portion of the DOM to be visible. Adblock won't load
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by gorhill 12y ago
I do want uMatrix ported to Firefox. The developer who ported uBlock[1] has now made it more easy for me to work on a port of uMatrix, as I have now a model on how to proceed + a lot of code which can readily be shared with uMatrix. Once it
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by gorhill 12y ago
Ghostery/Disconnect are leaner memory-wise than uBlock [1]. That is for their own memory footprint. I do not know how much they contribute memory overhead to web pages though, but I suspect not much. I have never benchmarked Ghostery&#
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by gorhill 12y ago
One thing I would like to point out, is that there is a bug currently in Chromium 39 which causes a new memory leak each time the popup UI of an extension is opened: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/d
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by gorhill 12y ago
Blocking scripts is still a good habit. Many web sites requires scripts to work properly, but then for many web sites a lot of users won't really care whether all the "features" work, so long as they display the important con
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by gorhill 12y ago
I am not maintaining HTTPSB anymore. I refactored HTTPSB into uBlock/uMatrix. Many cringing usability issues[1] have been fixed with uMatrix, which is different enough from HTTPSB that I could not publish it as a newer version of HTTPS
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by gorhill 12y ago
The idea that you have to choose between a blocker or resources has become common unfortunately. It's unfortunate because this idea being held as a premise by so many users kind of give a free pass to developers to not work harder to i
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by gorhill 12y ago
> Youtube front page doesn't show any videos I see videos all fine on Youtube front-page, using out-of-the-box filter lists. That kind of issue was never reported for uBlock. I would need to know exactly what filter lists you were u
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by gorhill 12y ago
I frankly don't know how to improve on clicking the big fat green button in the popup to whitelist a site (Ctrl-click for a specific page).
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by gorhill 12y ago
The "fucked up" case highlights the fact that ABP injects 14,000+ CSS rules (with only EasyList) in every page and iframes on a page. You could as well ask "What kind of fucked up add-on unconditionally injects minimum of 1
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by gorhill 12y ago
I myself most often write "uBlock" and pronounce "you-block", as in "users decide". I originally used the mu character in place of the u to emphasize smaller resource footprint relative to similar solutions out
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by gorhill 12y ago
From the doc: "µMatrix does not guarantee that sites will work fine: it is for advanced users who can figure how to un-break sites, because essentially µMatrix is a firewall which works in block-all/allow-exceptionally mode out of
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by gorhill 12y ago
> Ad-blocking is a necessary form of protection from corporate stalking To give a concrete example in support of your statement, here is what Dr.Dobb's does in the web page of the article on topic (and I did have click-to-play enabl
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by gorhill 12y ago
I don't relate to your blog post. I am definitely not second guessing my use of GPL. That is another topic than the one here as far as I am concerned.
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by gorhill 12y ago
Regardless of the specifics of this case, I do feel like there is such a thing as "burning out on open source", a topic which is of interest to me at this point. I would like to read other people insights about this, this would pr
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by gorhill 12y ago
> more modern languages which use return values for error signaling I must be missing something.. Returning a value in Go for error signaling is the way to signal errors in Go.
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by gorhill 12y ago
> I had to turn all of my js filters off. I could read the article by enabling JS only for 1st-party + www.blogblog.com + www.blogger.com.
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by gorhill 12y ago
> Conservation of angular momentum. I don't see this as all that shocking. What is fascinating is that the angular momentum seems to be roughly aligned with the underlying "membranes", as if the voids themselves are actual
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by gorhill 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification, I wasn't aware there was a for-profit subsidiary.
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by gorhill 12y ago
> They paid Firefox $300mil a year for three years Mozilla's 990 forms are public. For 2012 I see a bit more than $9 million in revenue, of which $5.4 million came from contributions [1]. "$300mil a year" makes no sense --

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