As the author was kind enough to pick us as an example, here's some background on what some of those requests are doing.<p><i>hits.theguardian.com</i> points to our Omniture implementation, which is the main tracking suite used for macro-level reporting (like when we say we have X unique monthly browsers, or whatever). So if you want to be invisible to that, leave it blocked.<p><i>ophan.theguardian.com</i> points to our own analytics tool, Ophan, which does things like tracks whether you "read" the article. It's for journalists to work out if people like their stuff. All the views of the data are aggregated, but if an analyst really wanted to they could go write some SQL to look at the behavior of individual cookies. So if you want to be invisible to that, leave it blocked. A quick Google [0] will turn up lots more about Ophan and how it works.<p>Our only calls out to Facebook and Twitter are to retrieve share counts for the current URL (besides articles with embedded tweets, for now). These are probably relatively safe to unblock, but if that information doesn't interest you they're equally safe to block.<p><i>api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk</i> is handling most Guardian stuff that gets ajaxed onto the page, like suggestions for what to read next. It's pretty harmless and required for a bunch of functionality. All the <i>guim</i> stuff is obviously just static assets.<p>It would be cute if there was some way of us hinting to the plugin which domains were needed to not break the site, though likely impractical in the real world.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ophan%20guardian" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ophan%20guardian</a>
Denying 3rd-party resources by default is nice, but definitely experts-only. Pages will break in weird ways when half their rat's nests of JavaScript are missing, and it will take some coding knowledge to figure out which parts are necessary. I may switch to this myself, but I think I'll keep telling friends and family to use Ghostery
I can't quite tell: is this a complementary or overlapping feature to µMatrix, from the same developer? As an aside, I have noticed much better browser performance with the µ plugins as opposed to things like ABP. Keep up the good work!
Okay, I'm probably stupid. This would allow me to throw away NoScript, Disconnect and Adblock.<p>But I can't figure out how to enable deny by default mode?!
(Yes I have advanced mode enabled)
Does uBlock provide any way to write shims/surrogates? Sites often break because they just can't deal with certain JS libraries being missing, but there are many cases where it looks like just providing a stub implementation would be enough.
Enabled default to deny last night. And I actually think it works great! Yes, some sites, are broken, but with some tinkering around, it works.<p>This will be my default setup from now on..
Does ublock still block crash reporters like newrelic and self hosted party statistics like piwik?<p>PS, I had major issues on two mainstream travel sites with ublock. It made then unusable with ublocksl's default settings.