I am dumbfounded that uBlock Origin, arguably the single most important extension in modern web browsing, and one that makes millions of lives easier by making their web experience bearable at all, all of this depends on one single person, working for free.<p>Now there's also the list maintainers, who also work for free. Still makes you wonder about how the world works. There's probably many other similar instances. In any case, I think these people deserve more recognition than they currently do and we shouldn't take anything they do for granted.
Just read Microsoft will allow ad blocker extensions (May build one in) in their new Chromium browser. Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years and use IE again(IE of today).<p>Such a stupid move by the do no evil company! Now they do no stupid too.<p>EDIT: Here is link... <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/06/16/microsoft-just-dealt-a-blow-to-googles-ad-blocking-plans/#459c060c16ff" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/06/16/micr...</a>
I've just noticed Safari is stuck at 1.16 and I've been using a fork.<p>Anyone here uses Safari as their main browsing tool and has a good alternative? I mean 1.16 seems to do the job just fine, but if it falls behind too far...
Does anyone know about the status of the Safari port?<p>That hasn't seen a release since 1.16 in April 2018.<p><a href="https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/releases" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/releases</a>
It's crazy how good uBlock is and everything it blocks.<p>What happens if more of the Internet learns about this extension? Subscriptions for all sites? Some other business model?
As much as Advertisers want to be able to use their own domains to be able thwart fake clicks, this approach leaves them open to ad blocking. At what point with the wish to deliver ads outweigh the want to measure user engagement? Once ads are slipstreamed, adblockers are going to have to get a lot more aggressive, more like antivirus scanning for code signatures.<p>Thanks to the team (and especially Ray) for keeping us free of performance bogging, malware delivering scripts.
Is there a good short answer for why uBlock is using constructs like this:<p>if ( self.browser instanceof Object ) {
self.chrome = self.browser;
} else {
self.browser = self.chrome;
}<p>Instead of using a polyfill like that one
<a href="https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill</a>?
I love uBlock Origin. I wish I could donate to gorhill, and I'm actually kind of annoyed he wont even put up a paypal me link or something.<p>That said, I've noticed more and more sites are starting to do the ad blocker detection and not allowing you to see the content until you white list them. It started with a simple body {overflow:hidden} and a modal box, but they are now truncating their content.<p>And I don't mind a site advertising, they have to make their money somehow, but I don't like how the modern ad-tech is so kludgy.
Has the author of uBlock origin said what the plans are post-this-change? Should Chrome actually follow through with what it says it will do, the performance of uBO will drop overnight. Is this acceptable? Will development continue?
Too bad it only targets Chrome webextensions. No support for people still using the Firefox version of Firefox instead of the modern Chrome style Firefox.