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Thank you Raymond Hill (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by starman@programming.dev to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[-] intrepid@lemmy.ca 324 points 1 year ago

Can you imagine the amount of corruptive influences and persuasions he is resisting?

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 year ago

Insightful point. And it does remind me of the corporate purchase of the Don't care about cookies extension for Firefox (And the Simple Mobile Tools for Android). Luckily it was forked. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies Open source FTW!
🙂 🐧

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago

Simple Mobile Tools was forked into "Fossify *" for anyone interested.

There's a reason uBlock Origin overtook Adblock Plus in popularity.

[-] OriginalUsername7@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

The VLC guy turned down what a quick search is telling me was “several tens of millions” to show ads. I can’t even imagine what getting people to drop ublock would be worth.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't blame him if he took it, but I greatly respect that he didn't.

[-] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

Raymond Hill: “Get behind me, Google.”

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[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 248 points 1 year ago

And all the volunteers keeping those lists up-to-date.

[-] azalty@jlai.lu 49 points 1 year ago

Yea it’s mainly those that do the work actually

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 year ago

Still big kudos to Raymond for providing the foundations to make it all work too.

[-] azalty@jlai.lu 11 points 1 year ago

Aren’t most lists available on other browsers and ad blockers? Unless Raymond created the format

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago

The format currently used in adblocker predates uBO by almost a decade so no, but still, maintaining this add-on with how fast and often web browser changes, and keeping it performant must be quite the task.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 19 points 1 year ago

I think performant is probably the key thing here. There were ad blockers before and there are alternative ones now, but the thing that sets unlock Origin apart is how light weight it is.

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[-] DivineDev@kbin.run 176 points 1 year ago

If only, I know so many people who don't bother with adblocking at all. I honestly have no idea how they use the Internet without going mad

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 216 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My kid discovered that he can hit the "report" button on the YouTube app on the TV to skip the ads immediately. So now every ad gets reported as "inappropriate".

I'm proud of him.

[-] JVT038@feddit.nl 85 points 1 year ago

Tip: if you have an Android TV, you can install SmartTube as an alternative, privacy-friendly YouTube client. It has no ads and sponsorblock integration

[-] Zorsith 30 points 1 year ago

And as a better option, use an actual device instead of a short lifecycle planned obsolescence embedded android device on a "smart" tv.

[-] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

This is why I refuse to buy a "smart" TV. My old flat screen TV works perfectly fine with a Chromecast with Google TV. I can even use the Chromecast in my projector or any other device with HDMI input to make it smarter than most TV interfaces I have tried.

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[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago
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[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago

I'm of two minds about people not adblocking.

On one hand: Ads are gross noise pollution, and people are increasingly unaware of all the noise around them (or the noise they're generating) largely because they've been passively trained to "tune out" ads. Also consumerism.

On the other hand: As long as there are a significant amount of people oblivious to the possibility of adblock, corporate ad mobsters and the other worst people in the world out there will largely leave those of us blocking their ads alone. If everyone ran adblockers, we'd definitely live in a world of WEI... and probably worse. So, maybe all those people are watching ads so that I don't have to, as the YouTube thumbnails say.

[-] anothermember@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

If sites wanted to run ads and host them locally without tracking that would be fine. But since they're tracking users it's essential to block them for privacy and security, and if someone isn't then maybe they don't understand the level of tracking involved. We need a better name than adblocking.

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[-] variants@possumpat.io 21 points 1 year ago

People just don't know, I've been showing my wife the way little by little and she's always blown away

[-] Damage@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

I've shown a colleague after seeing him browse an horrendous fantasy football website. He couldn't believe the difference between before and after.

[-] JulesTheModest@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's shocking to see how many ads they jam in now. I felt so dirty.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I also don't understand it. But now I am wondering if we would not have had those "careless" (indifferent ? ignorant ?) millions of people not blocking ads then Google and others may have started pushing anti-adblock measures years earlier, no ?

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 128 points 1 year ago
[-] adamantris@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 1 year ago

Thank Raymond and the list maintainers, you keep the internet usable

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Raymond Hill made a great plugin, but the people maintaining the lists are the real MVPs

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

They're all gods among men.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Amen to that

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[-] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 70 points 1 year ago

Seriously. Says a lot about the modern internet, though. Both good and bad.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

He's far too kind of a person. He doesn't accept any donations for the many years of a better and safer internet experience I've gotten from his work

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[-] kirbowo808@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago
[-] ours@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

And the people maintaining the lists his work depends on.

[-] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Never knew the name of the guy behind it. Nice! This is why Everybody Loves Raymond!

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/gorhill

About

Free. Open-source. For users by users. No donations sought.

If you ever want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which are available to use by all for free.

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[-] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year ago

Im genuinely so thankful for this project, the creator and maintainers. You are doing the lords work.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

Gladly upvoted to ~~worship~~ honor one of the open source heroes.

[-] uhrbaan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

There is something very wrong when deleting 50% of wep page is the least it takes to make the internet usable...

[-] andri@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Messiah of the internet

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I have been using uBlock Origin and uMatrix together for so long, that I don't remember when they became permanent must have.. uBlock origin sanitizes the site, while uMatrix prevents any surprises since I last visited a site. The more garbage the site is, the more broken it is on my setup.

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[-] cyrus@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

and when asked about donations, he instead asks to donate to those who maintain the lists.

Absolute gigachad

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