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by gorhill 7y ago
I was asked to comment by Thomas Claburn from The Register[1]: The most concise summary I can come up with is in the article: > Google's primary business is incompatible with unimpeded content blocking. * * * [1] https://
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by gorhill 7y ago
This also affects other blockers.[1][2] I never reproduced such issue on my side, so unfortunately there is no way for me to investigate -- given that this affects different blockers with different code base, I suspect a filter issue. * * *
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by gorhill 7y ago
> Providing public access to the state’s laws and related legal materials, Georgia’s lawyers said, was part of a “strategy of terrorism.” Incidentally, "copyright terrorism" is an expression the Church of Scientology lawyers ha
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by gorhill 7y ago
Hyperlink auditing is disabled by default in uBlock Origin. The link you post to Reddit proves you wrong, a user shows you that no ping is fired with hyperlink auditing disabled in uBO. I just tried your test page[1], and all works as expec
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by gorhill 7y ago
> Just updated from 65.0 to 66.0.3 The fix is in 66.0.4.
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by gorhill 7y ago
Ah I see, never mind then; and in that case I do agree with your comment.
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by gorhill 7y ago
> Users may also switch to uBlock Origin. It does not support the $rewrite filter option Support for this filter option was discussed (and declined) in uBlock Origin's issue tracker: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin&#
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by gorhill 7y ago
> a significant number of users who just associate "AdBlock == AdBlock Plus" AdBlock uses Adblock Plus filtering engine internally and also supports and enables "Acceptable Ads" by default: > AdBlock is a popular a
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by gorhill 7y ago
I wrote my own thoughts on this on Reddit recently[1], excerpt: > BetaFish Inc, owner of AdBlock, paid to acquire control of the GitHub repository and control of the ublock.org site last year. The apparent goal was to keep the deception
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by gorhill 7y ago
Both uBlock Origin and uMatrix are able to prevent execution of inline JavaScript.
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by gorhill 8y ago
> Firefox 66, Firefox Beta 67, and Firefox Nightly 68 disable Hyperlink auditing by default In the same vein, with Chromium-based browsers, web sites have priority in deciding whether a connection can be made for pre-fetching purpose, ev
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by gorhill 8y ago
"'3rd party' tab"? What is your version of uBlock Origin? That tab was renamed "Filter lists" a long, long time ago.
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by gorhill 8y ago
It does block Google Analytics by default.
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by gorhill 8y ago
It does not work for the first tab opened in the browser. It works for all subsequent tabs you open. Related bugzilla issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1410749
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by gorhill 8y ago
The same code used to match the `domain=` option is also used to match all filters which are essentially just a plain hostname, i.e. `||example.com^` -- which is a majority of filters found in filter lists.
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by gorhill 8y ago
> Extremely good and effective adblocking across most websites can be achieved with significantly less rules Both uBlock and uMatrix can be used without any filter lists, simply using a default-deny ruleset approach, optional in uBO[1],
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by gorhill 8y ago
There are four listeners with blocking ability on the webRequest API. The design document says "potentially removing blocking options from most events". There is one mention that the blocking ability of webRequest.onAuthRequired m
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by gorhill 8y ago
It creates a small inline script with this code: window["_gaUserPrefs"] = { ioo : function() { return true; } } I used CRX Viewer extension by Rob Wu[1] to just look up the extension code in Chrome store. [1] https:&#x2F
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by gorhill 8y ago
> So I heavily experimented with squeezing performance out of a JS-based trie-implementation for LZString. Incidentally, I did write a JS/WASM version of LZ4 block encoding[1] (also used in uBO). I do wonder if it could be of intere
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by gorhill 8y ago
Example: I use default-deny 3rd party scripts and frames + disable javascript everywhere by default. I temporarily enable these only on a per-site basis only if really needed (permanently for the few sites I visit regularly).
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by gorhill 8y ago
For some reasons, I found that Firefox's results for WASM are always better after a first run -- i.e. clicking "Lookup" again without reloading the page. I don't know what is the explanation of this.
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by gorhill 8y ago
Tip: Site rendered fine with master JavaScript switch disabled.
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by gorhill 8y ago
> I'm always surprised people are willing to give random developers that much control over their browser I will say this is why people install content blockers, to avoid giving control to random developers behind countless websites,
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by gorhill 8y ago
Documentation is here for more details: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Element-zapper The zapper will also try to detect and remove CSS rules which prevent the whole page from being scrolled.
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by gorhill 8y ago
> adblocker | either AdBlock Plus (ABP) or uBlock Origin, the two most popular ad-blocking Firefox add-ons Adblock Plus ("ABP") does not block a lot of ads by default, as ABP's "Acceptable ads" is opt-out -- i.e.
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by gorhill 8y ago
uBO can block with pattern-matching URLs of network requests and additionally cosmetic filtering (hide DOM elements), while uMatrix works strictly with hostname of network requests and types of resources.
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by gorhill 8y ago
> 82% reduction in the number of bytes transferred No doubt the reduction is important, however as per screenshots, the reported reduction should be considered somewhat inaccurate as he forgot to check "Disable cache" for the P
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by gorhill 8y ago
> in stead of stripped after the download (like with uBlock) That's quite an erroneous statement, especially given how easy it is to verify. You can see for yourself by using uBlock Origin along with your pi-hole: your pi-hole will
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by gorhill 8y ago
> Now you just have uBlock origin that can track you - meet the new boss. Please don't spread disinformation, uBO tracks nothing. Privacy policy is here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Privacy-
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by gorhill 8y ago
AdGuard extension can do this. Check the setting "Invert whitelist" in the "Whitelist" section.

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