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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (www.pcworld.com)
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Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

of course you didn’t. on youtube ads are not served from different domains. have you ever heard about pihole not being able to block youtube ads? that’s why. every ad is literally a video uploaded to youtube, it is even possible to watch them as videos, with their own video page.

So it's not a privacy issue, it's an ad issue. Which doesn't show, it's blocked.

What does uBO do different here?

or when ads start reappearing. the needs to wait for the next addon update, which may take multiple days.

Just FYI - that only happens to me on YouTube every once in a while. Like, three times this year for a day or two.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

So it's not a privacy issue, it's an ad issue. Which doesn't show, it's blocked.

I don't understand what did you intend to respond to with this. as filtering instructions get more out of date, the addon's privacy protections will also fail.

What does uBO do different here?

on youtube? if you fire up firefox, install uBO, ocannote uBO logger and open a youtube video page, you'll see what it does. I don't know what it does different because I don't happen to have an itemized list of what does uBO lite do, but I suppose it has a logger function too, and you can compare it.

uBO mostly protects against tracking here. automatically selects no in the google data sharing dialogue, employs lots of scriptlets (documented on the wiki) to set variables used by youtube, to unfuck youtube in other technical ways, and to block behaviors it shouldn't even think about doing (why does it need a scriptlet that blocks writing the clipboard??), blocks ad video segments, hides annoying things from the UI because I have lists enabled that do that.

but there is something I can confidently say it does differently: it always works from up to date, detailed filterlists. lite cannot do that.

Just FYI - that only happens to me on YouTube every once in a while. Like, three times this year for a day or two.

so far releases go public within a day, but don't think that will go so smoothly when google gets the urge again to fuck up ad blockers, and addon uodate review suddenly takes days to weeks, or they find some idiotic non-existent problem as the play store team loves to do with open source apps.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

I don’t understand what did you intend to respond to with this. as filtering instructions get more out of date, the addon’s privacy protections will also fail.

OK, I get what you mean. I guess if you require 100% certain and absolute privacy, then yeah, uBO is the way to go. Seems like a pretty narrow user-base, tho.

on youtube? if you fire up firefox, install uBO, ocannote uBO logger and open a youtube video page, you’ll see what it does. I don’t know what it does different because I don’t happen to have an itemized list of what does uBO lite do, but I suppose it has a logger function too, and you can compare it.

If there is a difference, it's not noticeable to me. I fired up YT on FF with uBO and then the same video on Vivaldi with Ghostery. Honest to God, I do not see it loading longer on Vivaldi.

to set variables used by youtube, to unfuck youtube in other technical ways, and to block behaviors it shouldn’t even think about doing (why does it need a scriptlet that blocks writing the clipboard??), blocks ad video segments, hides annoying things from the UI because I have lists enabled that do that.

Most of this sounds like I get in Ghostery too. Blocking specific HTML elements is the one feature I feel is missing from Ghostery, but that's not really an adblock/privacy feature, is it?