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by gorhill 6y ago
> replaced by whitespace with a loading icon in the middle This seems to be a filter issue, please submit cases to filter list maintainers. Note that "Ignore generic cosmetic filters" is checked by default in Firefox for Androi
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by gorhill 6y ago
> Chrome team has tried to make some changes to improve the situation The remote code execution ("RCE") capability requested by the extensions is programmatically detectable by simply looking up the `content_security_policy` ke
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by gorhill 6y ago
> Am I misremembering? Yes.
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by gorhill 6y ago
> uBlock Origin is able to block based on CNAMEs, but it is not a default configuration It is a default configuration.
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by gorhill 6y ago
> I have no idea whether Plausible offers this mode of operation The site of the article cloaks `custom.plausible.io` as `ms.markosaric.com`.
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by gorhill 6y ago
Blocking a resource has precedence over redirecting a resource. If your blocker blocks a resource, Decentraleyes or any other extension won't be able to redirect it.
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by gorhill 6y ago
> I use uMatrix to block scripts on certain domains. [...] For ad-blocking, I supplement uMatrix with uBlock Origin. As the author of both uBO and uMatrix, I don't understand the need to use uMatrix to block scripts when already usi
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by gorhill 6y ago
> For instance, they're also able to apply cosmetic rules. How does this happen? Do you inject the thousands of CSS rules from EasyList in each page? Doesn't this require AdGuard to be able to have access to the response body f
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by gorhill 6y ago
> They still load, but they are scrubbed from the page Misinformation, again. uBO prevents DNS requests from being made in the first place for requests which are meant to be blocked. This way the browser will know faster that a network r
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by gorhill 6y ago
I responded to your claim _"It significantly slows down a webpage rendering"_, and provided 3rd-party evaluation to the contrary when actual real world web pages are used. You counter with a just-trust-me claim that AdGuard not-th
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by gorhill 6y ago
Care to comment about the debugbear benchmarks? Why is the supposed undue overhead as per SpeeDOMeter not showing up in there? I encourage whoever to actually speculate less and measure page load times from the top 500 Alexa and make the ca
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by gorhill 6y ago
> That means that when you are running ublock origin your browser is working at 87.85% capacity. No it's not, at this point your are spreading FUD about uBO. This is a benchmark specialized for one thing, the creation/deletion
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by gorhill 6y ago
uBlock Origin: https://www.debugbear.com/chrome-extension-performance-looku... I am skeptical system-wide blockers would slow down less, especially considering the browser has to fire the network requests no matter what, wh
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by gorhill 6y ago
> there is no way to install a plugin for your browser Firefox for Android blocks trackers by default and supports installing extensions.
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by gorhill 6y ago
It's a similar idea I shared with Moz people last year when asked about how privacy concerns raised in manifest v3 could be addressed, I quote myself: === > The host permission in current extension framework does not distinguish bet
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by gorhill 6y ago
An note regarding the memory usage in Chromium and uBO specifically. I have observed that even though the memory usage as reported by developer tools under "JavaScript VM instance" stay rather stable in uBO[1] even after a lot of
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by gorhill 6y ago
Content blockers in the same class as uBlock Origin ("uBO")[1] have the added burden of having to enforce generic filters which are independent of the request domains, they have to find a specific pattern in the request URL, inclu
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by gorhill 6y ago
> uBlock Origin makes youtube videos stutter at about the 2 second mark on my Raspberry Pi 3's If uBO is really responsible for this, you should probably check the box "Ignore generic cosmetic filters" in "Filter list
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by gorhill 6y ago
Chromium did not remove the dns API as a result of manifest v3[1], it was never supported in the first place[2]. * * * [1] https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/migrating_to_manifes... [2] https://develope
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by gorhill 6y ago
Correction: *$websocket,domain=~site1.com|~site2.com|~...
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by gorhill 6y ago
That is not valid ABP filter syntax. This is what you want: *$websocket,domain=~site1.com For more than a single site: *$websocket,domain=~site1.com|site2.com|... I would personally suggest people to just enable advanced u
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by gorhill 6y ago
Simple solution: set the `min-height: 600px` on the Twitch `iframe` instead of on the `.embed` class.
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by gorhill 6y ago
On my side, when I use `grid` instead of `table` for the `.row` style, the `min-height` of the video row is respected, otherwise it's disregarded for a reason I do not understand.
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by gorhill 7y ago
> Ublock will use pre defined lists that block known advertisement networks and similar uBlock Origin can also be used in default-deny mode, see [1] * * * [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking
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by gorhill 7y ago
> source code must be in a public git repo (github, gitlab etc.) > > some config file is inside the repo which describes how the extension is built There is an extension which allows to review the code of other extensions, CRX View
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by gorhill 7y ago
In case you didn't know, you can also block all 3rd-party JS with uBO.
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by gorhill 7y ago
Audi e-Tron: > The name e-tron is very similar to the French word étron (meaning turd), causing some ridicule of the e-Tron in France [...] [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_e-tron_(2018)#Marketing
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by gorhill 7y ago
> [uBO] will increase DNS latency because it has to check each external domain again for the "true" domain. The browser API used by uBO returns the last CNAME in the chain. I consider the DNS lookup itself to be an non-issue ov
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by gorhill 7y ago
I doubt anyone will reproduce 1.43s locally for DomContentLoaded, I do get ~250 ms on my side in Chromium's dev tools' Network pane with cache disabled -- no meaningful difference than without uBO. I think such discrepancy should
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by gorhill 7y ago
> I recommend UMatrix There is also master switch to wholly disable JavaScript on per-site basis in uBlock Origin[1], which I think is a more user-friendly approach for whoever wants to experiment with toggling on/off JavaScript eas

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