[HN Gopher] Adblock Plus is showing a fake progress bar after up...
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Adblock Plus is showing a fake progress bar after updating
Author : anonymousab
Score : 37 points
Date : 2023-12-15 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| Dwedit wrote:
| Do you know anyone who is still using Adblock Plus?
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| It is the second most-installed Firefox extension.
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?sort=users&...
| kossTKR wrote:
| Isn't uBlock origin the much better option for Firefox?
|
| And if so there should be some community effort to remove
| these scammy and deceptive alternatives.
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| Yes. I'm not sure what your point is, though.
| kossTKR wrote:
| Just curious if uBlock was still king as i'm using
| Safari/Orion since some time ago because of battery life.
| sshine wrote:
| I switched away from AdBlock Plus when they started not
| removing ads that paid ABP for that service.
|
| It's just less good.
|
| Has a great name, though.
| e2le wrote:
| >It is the second most-installed Firefox extension
|
| The second most popular extension is "Video DownloadHelper".
| ABP holds 5th place, it has being experiencing a decline in
| popularity for quite some time.
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| https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| That's interesting, so the numbers on the extension site
| are wrong?
| e2le wrote:
| I'm not sure. That does seem strange.
| sys_64738 wrote:
| Is pihole the best solution for all this Manifest v3 stuff that
| Chrome is about to dump on the universe?
| miloignis wrote:
| No, that'd be Firefox + UBlock Origin. I believe that the DNS
| based blocking that pihole does would be similar to the
| blocklist type blocking that Chrome with manifest v3 offers.
| I belive the advantages of pihole are most for blocking ads
| on devices without an adblocker installed, like your TV or
| w/e.
| 3np wrote:
| pihole is only doing DNS filtering. Can still be good but not
| at all similar to the content filtering that can be done by
| client-side extensions. It's also becoming less effective
| over time due to increased adoption of domain-fronting and
| DoT/DoH.
|
| To get there with a hosted appliance you can run on a
| Raspberry Pi, you'd neet an intercepting and rewriting HTTPS
| proxy with the TLS certificates trusted by the client.
| Possible (corporates and ISPs/governments do this) but a lot
| more effort and security footguns than blackholing DNS
| lookups.
|
| Sidenote: Most HTTPS packets will still carry the destination
| domain unencrypted (ECH is still not widely adopted and can
| be filtered). So even if DoT prevents pihole from being
| effective, you can still route all your HTTPS traffic through
| something like sniproxy and drop packages based on SNI header
| information. You won't need to set up PKI for this and pretty
| straightforward on any Linux/BSD router.
| manuelmoreale wrote:
| I don't think you have to pick one or the other. Run pihole
| and then put an adblocker on the client.
|
| That's how I roll personally. NextDNS + 1Blocker / uBlock
| mksybr wrote:
| PiHole was good but blocked less compared to uBlock Origin
| when I tested it a few months ago.
|
| https://canyoublockit.com/
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