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hjek·Feb 16, 2021

Get the Sticky Ducky add-on[0] for hiding fixed overlays, and add Fanboy's Cookiemonster list[1] to your adblocker of choice. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sticky-ducky/ [1]: https://github.com/ryanbr/fanboy-adblock/blob/master/fanboy-...

In TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe

llacb47·Jan 24, 2021

So this is basically a wrapper for Fanboy's cookie monster list? This is really nothing special IMO. Plus, the fact that the filters are inside of the app source and not fetched from a remote repo means that filtering errors (false-positives) will take hours or maybe days to be fixed, as the dev will need to push out an update (or pull Fanboy's upstream fixes), it will need to be approved by Apple, and then the user will need to update the entire extension. Compare this with uBo or Adguard, where one can manually check for updates and pull a new version of a single filter list or every filter list in ten seconds. In uBo, the user can also badfilter the offending line in the list or disable uBo from running on a specific domain. In general, as evidenced from this issue list, cookie consent lists are somewhat problematic and can break sites

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. Some of these issues may be fixed by now. https://github.com/ryanbr/fanboy-adblock/issues?q=%22easylis...

In Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

petre·Aug 8, 2018

Thanx for reminding me. I just added them to uBlock Origin as a custom filter: https://github.com/ryanbr/fanboy-adblock/blob/master/fanboy-...

In List of Websites not available in the EU because of GDPR

me_bx·May 11, 2018

Fanboy's cookiemonster list seems to be updated more frequently: https://github.com/ryanbr/fanboy-adblock/blob/master/fanboy-...

In Google YOLO clickjacking

shpx·Nov 5, 2017

/etc/hosts will never block all ads[0]. uBlock Origin can use host files. They aren't on by default because they aren't needed but Dan Pollock's and MVPS lists are already there, you just have to click a check box in Options→"3rd-party filters". The lists are auto updated[1]. uBlock Origin is open source[2] and made by a great[3], hardworking[4], ideological[5] guy. He writes uBlock Origin, which loads in lists of url + css-selector pairs compiled by other people[6][7]. I prefer the term "content blocker" because they're more general than just ads. You can block anything you can write a css-selector for (and because of the arms races[0][8][9], other things like websocket connections too). For example, I hide sticky header bars (thanks web designers), youtube comments, everything that isn't the article on news sites and the menu that comes

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up when you right click on Medium. There are also pre-compiled lists of annoyances and a list to block social share buttons. uBlock Origin is the only ad blocker that should exist, arguably every single one of the others is fake. There's plain "uBlock" which is the original project that was effectively abandoned in 2015[10]. There's "Adblock Plus" which is a rent-seeking operation[11] that employs 100 people[12]. There's "Ghostery" which is closed source[13] and up until February 2017 was owned by an advertising company[14]. uBlock Origin is the one you want. [0] https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/846781439890853893 I'm reminded of anti-bacterial soap [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-3rd-party-... periodically updating files is for cron jobs, not humans [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gorhill [4] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commits?author=gorhill [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gorhill seriously, thanks man [6] https://github.com/easylist/easylist [7] https://github.com/ryanbr/fanboy-adblock fanboy also deserves a lot of thanks [8] https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/1727 [9] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/08/a-new-way-to-control-th... [10] https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/commits/master [11] https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking [12] https://eyeo.com/en/team [13] https://github.com/jonpierce/ghostery [14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidon,_Inc. the problem in my original comment has been known since June, and some of these extensions phone home https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/898574880773484545 these are probably for "market research"

In Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads

mp3geek·Oct 12, 2016

Not sure how much false positives this will cause, but its fixed in the Enhanced Tracking list. https://github.com/ryanbr/fanboy-adblock/commit/2385fb0b2b28...

In Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)