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by gorhill 4y ago
> as the requests are not obfuscated in any way How do you know for sure that the requests are "not obfuscated in any way"?
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by gorhill 4y ago
> one for removing HTML elements via the context menu Isn't this equivalent to the element zapper in uBO?[1] It's not available from the context menu but you can assign a shortcut to bring it up.[2] [1] https://githu
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by gorhill 4y ago
uBO's generic cosmetic filtering is disabled by default in Firefox for Android -- those placeholders are probably normally removed by generic cosmetic filters. I will add specific cosmetic filters for that site so as to avoid having to
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by gorhill 4y ago
> ublock origin's default list Youtube's endcards are not blocked by default in uBO, and I can't find a list in the set of stock lists which blocks them.
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by gorhill 4y ago
Somebody in here already transcribed the tweet, but here it is again: > @Johnrigsby128 > Replying to @AUtsogn and @KyivIndependent > They arent bothering to train current conscripts. Some Russian soldiers say they are given a weapo
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by gorhill 4y ago
I tried to find a tweet which would be a best match if the subject tweet had been a reply to another tweet, here is a good candidate: https://twitter.com/Johnrigsby128/status/1521195277033648129
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by gorhill 5y ago
Zapper is a special feature, entirely unrelated to cosmetic filtering. When you zap an element, the element is removed from the DOM, and the zapper code will also look at the DOM to find out if any of the parent elements are scroll-locked,
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by gorhill 5y ago
I read the original article back when it was published in November 2020[0]. This is what led me to introduce new static network filter options: - strict1p, strict3p [1] - header=, experimental, disabled by default [2] I used Simo Ahava&#x27
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by gorhill 5y ago
From 1.41.5b2 and above, it works on non-"trusted" sites with right-clicking the link, there will be an entry on the contextual menu to import the list. For older versions of uBO, you can already use the old way: abp:subscri
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by gorhill 5y ago
I am assuming the person was referring to "uBlock Origin" given that "uBlock" has already shown it can't be trusted, maybe I am wrong and he was indeed referring to "uBlock". The repo was handed in good fa
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by gorhill 5y ago
The current "uBlock" is not the original project, "uBlock Origin" is the original project. The essence of a project is not the location of its repo on GitHub, it's who worked on it since it was first created, i.e. t
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by gorhill 5y ago
> you can't trust ublock on the long run Why is this? Would you also say this for other long running open source projects which have never breach the trust of their users?
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by gorhill 5y ago
> the only I disagree with your "the only", uBO also supports deny-allow for script blocking.[1] Beside, `google-analytics.com` is wholly blocked by default in uBO -- i.e. without having to fiddle with the default, out-of-the-b
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by gorhill 5y ago
Using another ad blocker along uBO leads to worse results than using uBO alone, I keep warning people about this, see < https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1033706103782170625 >.
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by gorhill 5y ago
> Kind of annoying having to whitelist every website I visit on NoScript these days but worth it imho In case you didn't already know, uBO does integrate a script blocker, with the advantage over NoScript that it supports per-site r
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by gorhill 5y ago
Filter lists are built and maintained by volunteers from people reporting cases of non-blocked ads. Just report the specific cases you stumble onto to filter list maintainers. Not reporting, or reporting just vague details of ads _somewhere
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by gorhill 5y ago
> after receiving 4 DMCA notices by “info-bloom.site”, a website that does not exist There is a similarly-named website which still exists, `what-info-bloom.com`, and which currently appears to be a copycat of `wheelsjoint.com`.
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by gorhill 5y ago
> the ad blocking results are as good with better performance I invite you to go through all daily commits made in uBlock Origin's specific filter lists to solve reported real-world issues[1], and find out if every single one of th
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by gorhill 5y ago
The issue is the signing of self-hosted dev builds being stalled. It had always taken only a few minutes before I would get a self-hosted dev build to be signed, allowing for the dev build to be used by volunteers so as to be able to spot r
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by gorhill 5y ago
See if disabling the setting "Uncloak canonical names" in uBO helps. There are similar loading delay issues as you describe when uBO has to resolve DNS names if you are behind a proxy.
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by gorhill 5y ago
If you suspect the issue is with Firefox, you can open an issue with the profiling data attached, Firefox devs know how to interpret the data.
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by gorhill 5y ago
> The slowness and slugishness. Mozilla has a nice tool to help identify sources of "slowness and slugishness"[1], you may want to give it a try -- oftentimes it's found that the issue is not Firefox itself, but some exten
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by gorhill 5y ago
Best to remove `*.`, otherwise your filters will match only subdomains of those domains -- unless that is really what you want to accomplish.
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by gorhill 5y ago
> 2 degrees Fahrenheit is over three and a half degrees Celsius 2°F is ~1.1°C
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by gorhill 5y ago
Much work has been done since this article came out to remove stale filters, see: https://twitter.com/fanboynz/status/1344796683612299265
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by gorhill 5y ago
> making the users' browser use proxy is a step too far uBO does not do this, and nowhere is there any suggestion that uBO does this. Users configure their own network settings, and it was found that in some cases when the browser i
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by gorhill 5y ago
> Often times pages load very slowly, we're talking 5-8 seconds [...] I have a bunch of privacy extensions If you are using uBlock Origin, you may want to see if un-checking "Uncloak canonical names" option in the "Se
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by gorhill 5y ago
The official "home" of uBlock Origin is the GitHub repo[1], you will find all the correct information there. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
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by gorhill 5y ago
There is https://filterlists.com/
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by gorhill 5y ago
This was implemented as per discussion with AdGuard's people[1]. For now I know of two lists from prominent maintainers which purpose is to remove unneeded URL parameters: - https://filters.adtidy.org/android/filte

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