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by gorhill 12y ago
HTTPSB is for Chromium, but I expect it to work on most Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Opera, Yandex, Maxthon, etc.) Edit: I personally block domains in global rules which are rather ubiquitous: `google.com`, `twitter.com`, `facebook.com`
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by gorhill 12y ago
I run benchmarks to drive development. So you may want to look once in a while at that page: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-and-other... The raw data is published at the top as a spreadshe
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by gorhill 12y ago
He attributed pettiness to the author ("back-handed cartoon insults"), motivated by supposed "dislike" of unnamed groups. In short, focusing on perceived flaws in the author's character.
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by gorhill 12y ago
> back-handed cartoon insults towards the groups the author dislikes Did you read page 42? Excerpt: "... circumstantial ad hominem, is any argument that attacks a person for cynical reasons, by making a judgment about their intentio
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by gorhill 12y ago
Last week-end I introduced µBlock (or uBlock) [1] for users who do not like to deal with the more complicated HTTP Switchboard. It does rather well against other popular blockers [2], which shows that ABP does indeed block requests, not jus
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by gorhill 12y ago
Author here (I was planning to submit myself a "Show HN" but oh well.) I ran benchmarks to compare against other popular blockers: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#benchmark
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by gorhill 12y ago
If you make your extension available as a plain zip file, people can download it, unzip it, and then use the "Load unpacked extension..." feature available if "Developer mode" is checked. So it's definitely still po
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by gorhill 12y ago
> elected officials voted in by citizens You can play with words as much as you want, the substance here is that citizens are purposely kept uninformed, and without information there is no such thing as informed consent, a core principle
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by gorhill 12y ago
> Elected government officials from democratic countries Such secrecy is incompatible with democracy, why refer to some of the countries participating in this as "democratic"?
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by gorhill 12y ago
The author is spot on, it is annoying. As opposed to the author though, I believe yet another setting is not needed: the translation tool is readily available as an icon in the address bar, so if I want to use that nice translation tool,
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by gorhill 12y ago
Does FF have nice memory tools? I can't see any. I've come to rely a lot of Chromium built in mem tools: Heap snapshot (including diff between snapshots), Record Heap Allocations, Timeline.
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by gorhill 12y ago
I don't mind someone recommending their own work when the rationale is backed by hard data.
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by gorhill 12y ago
Based on the article's description of password limits, normalizing maximum password strength into bits for easy comparison: Toronto-Dominion Bank: 210 bits Royal Bank of Canada: 195 bits Bank of Nova Scotia: 83 bits CIBC: 71 bits Bank
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by gorhill 12y ago
> if you wish to evaluate the efficiency of a magazine ad Sorry I still don't get it. No referrer or about:blank are both "noise" in such case, I still don't see how the distinction is useful to the server to evaluate
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by gorhill 12y ago
> This then allows sites to distinguish between direct traffic from users that don't block referrers and traffic with blocked referrers Any example of benefits for servers to distinguish direct traffic vs. blocked referrers?
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by gorhill 12y ago
If you are blocking Facebook frame, I will assume you don't mind blocking the matching Facebook script, so add this rule to your ABP filters: ||connect.facebook.net^$script,third-party Edit: or really, just: ||connect.fa
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by gorhill 12y ago
Not a bug. It's just the web page which styled the Facebook frame to be way larger than it needs to be -- given it's just to receive a Facebook button. Edit: This will happens with anything which blocks Facebook frame, but not Fac
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by gorhill 12y ago
> "There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer." And yet financial statements are reported in dollar units, not in customer units.
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by gorhill 12y ago
For none of the extensions measured I had to go out of my way to set them in block all mode (mine is definitely still geeky compared to others -- it's more suited for the NoScript/RequestPolicy crowd). I just re-installed all of t
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by gorhill 12y ago
My results are not biased: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-... Ghostery does a better job than Disconnect.
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by gorhill 12y ago
Just in case you didn't notice: "June 17, 2013"
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by gorhill 12y ago
That's one of the advantage of my extension, HTTP Switchboard [1], over many others out there: it shows you everywhere a web page tries to connect -- and then let you act on what you find. First step is being properly informed. It also
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by gorhill 12y ago
I thought that was an interesting comment, I did wonder originally if this could be something like that, but didn't follow up. So now I took the time to try to go around this by rearranging the calls, and all of a sudden results make m
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by gorhill 12y ago
The "two pieces of code" I am referring to are obviously the body of the function and method. (Following your comment I had to look again, I thought I missed something).
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by gorhill 12y ago
Argh sorry, forgot to mention the browser. It's Chromium 34/Linux 64-bit.
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by gorhill 12y ago
I actually have a similar question re. js since a while now [with Chromium 34]... Consider these two pieces of code which do exactly the same thing, one is a standalone function: var makeKeyCodepoint = function(word) { var l
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by gorhill 12y ago
The power button is what I call "hard" allow all, i.e. it turns off completely matrix filtering. The "all" cell (top left corner of the matrix) is a "soft" allow all, i.e. it allows everything except those host
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by gorhill 12y ago
Well the article was specifically to challenge the claim that the problem of ABP memory consumption was mostly residing with Firefox. But in any case, regarding your point, you can set up HTTPSB as an ad blocker and forget about it: https:
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by gorhill 12y ago
You don't have to switch. The code is GPLv3, rather modular, and if they decline to import it, the idea behind it can be easily implemented.
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by gorhill 12y ago
It's a problem specific to ABP (both in Firefox and Chrome). I posted links to the (GPLv3) javascript code at the end of the article, and explained that it is rather modular, i.e. easy to import and adapt.

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