uBlock Origin 1.50.0

Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well.<p>For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.

I understand why gorhill doesn&#x27;t ask for donations, but I still wish there was some sneaky way I could send him some money anyway.

From time to time, I happen to browse using someone else&#x27;s computer (browser) and I get immediately overwhelmed by how crappy the experience is without uBO.<p>Yet, I cannot convince people to install it :)

&gt; Add thunderbird as target for installation<p>That&#x27;s interesting. I get a couple of newsletters with advertising in them, and while I still find the Thunderbird interface a little clunky, this might sway me a bit.<p>I&#x27;m currently running Thunderbird as an email backup solution, with a rule to automatically copy every new email to a local folder. Maybe I&#x27;ll start using it a bit more. (It&#x27;s in a docker image on my file server, accessed via noVNC in a browser, which definitely adds to the clunkiness. Maybe I&#x27;ll switch it to my local machine.)

My terminology may be wrong, but I would assume these ad-blockers are great until streaming platforms catch up and embed ads directly into the video stream.<p>Twitch is getting close to that. They directly inject video ads into streams at random times causing you to miss parts of streams. uBlock Origin seemed to have a way around that with some extra setup but it&#x27;s only a matter of time before it&#x27;s completely transparent, seamless, and technically unblockable by client-side addons.<p>Part of me wonders why they haven&#x27;t done so yet.

Back in the day Safari + uBlock was one hell of an efficient browser on my macbook. I miss those days.

Have they been able to figure out how to continue being effective with the new chrome manifest junk?

I wonder; is there a way to calculate how much electricity uBlock saves over time?

Always wanted to try it, but have used noscript and strict Firefox for a decade. Am often astounded on the two dozen js trackers it doesn’t load on a news site.<p>Is there a big difference between that and UO? Thought it might be better for regular folks who may not recognize what js needs to be loaded and which is probably superfluous or dangerous.

Is this the good one that isn&#x27;t the scam? Which ones are the shady ones these days?

I’m curious what the plan is for when everyone starts blocking adblockers in YouTube style. Switching browsers won’t do anything to that.

This is what keeps the internet as useful as it was in the 90s and early 00s. The internet without an ad blocker is brutal.

The hero we don&#x27;t deserve.

Now if only I could install this onto my corporate locked-down laptop.

Thank you Mr. Gorhill.

Would this add-on benefit Brave users?

MVP

I don&#x27;t think I ever update this addon... It must be automatic.

The Man Is A Legend.

I miss uMatrix.