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WikiLeaks has grave concerns about the state of health of our publisher, Julian Assange, who has been moved to the health ward of Belmarsh prison. - See full statement:
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Opera users of uBO: 1.40.6 is a bad revision, it was approved for publication in Opera store -- I could stop publication for other browsers. If you're updated to 1.40.6, force an update of filter lists, it'll fix the problem. 1.40.8 is the good revision
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"I regurgitated a slur that has done enormous harm to [Julian Assange's] reputation. […] The problem was I also wrote that Julian dumped the Iraq and Afghan war logs on the internet without redacting names. I was wrong and lazy in repeating that slur"
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'#Assange, redaction, my failure to get the facts right and who really put lives in danger'
"I read the submissions Julian’s legal team made at his extradition hearings and transcripts of witness testimony. I soon realised how mistaken I was."
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These are the screenshots I meant to attach for showing that the built-in filter lists haven't been updated in almost 4 years while these are constantly updated in uBO.
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The built-in filter lists have not seen any activity in almost 4 years, while these are (and have been) updated daily in uBO.
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Many meaningful code changes from over 2 years ago where just code imported from uBlock Origin, reworked just enough to make it look as if it was all original code.
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For 2022, how about unlisting your abandonware "uBlock" from the Chrome Web Store?
It hasn't been updated in over 2 years, and by all appearances the sole purpose of this unmaintained extension is to mislead people who seek to install the uBlock Origin.
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We're excited to reflect on all we accomplished in 2021 and can't wait for the year ahead. :)
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Recently I passed Tony Blair's £8million mansion in London's Connaught Square. It's an hour's bleak journey to Belmarsh prison, where Julian #Assange 'lives' in a small cell. This is Britain Christmas 2021: the war criminal rewarded, the truth-teller punished, perhaps to death.
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We live in a society that celebrates war criminals and tortures journalists who expose war crimes.
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uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS by
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uBO blocks hard anti-blockers by default, but does not block soft ones by default (those which can be dismissed). The latter are dealt with one or more non-default lists under "Annoyances" section in "Filter lists". See vice.com/en/article/j5z
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Windscribe still causing undue burden to volunteers who donate their free time to maintain filter lists, and wasting the time of its own users,
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Apparently AdBlock's "honor system" does not involve disclosing upfront to its prospective donors that its owning entity already rakes in tens of millions of € per year from advertisers: twitter.com/gorhill/status
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Hey @aspexit! We know it's not the best thing ever, but we only open that update tab twice per year. Since only a small fraction of a percentage of users pay for AdBlock, a friendly reminder to folks that we're there helps us keep the lights on. Apologies for the interruption!
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"The court was told he had been “excused” because of his “medication.” But Julian had asked to attend the hearing and was refused, said his partner Stella Moris. Attendance in a court sitting in judgement on you is surely a right."
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Will the British judiciary trash its vaunted reputation?
Or will Julian Julian #Assange walk free? So much of our freedom now hangs on the answers. Please read on:
consortiumnews.com/2021/11/01/joh
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Also forgot to mention that if you disable "Experimental Web Platform features" flag, you will have to force filter lists to be recompiled => click "Purge all caches" then "Update now".
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Right, I forgot to mention, I was talking about uBlock Origin in case that is not clear.
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Alternatively, you can disable "Experimental Web Platform features" (it's disabled by default) in `chrome://flags` until you get the fix.
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The issue is fixed in latest dev build 1.38.7b8, and I will publish a revision for stable release in Chrome Web Store when the fix is confirmed by users of the dev build:
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This was an issue difficult to narrow, but with the great help of a Reddit user, the issue was identified:
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If you use a Chromium-based browser and enabled "Experimental Web Platform features" in chrome://flags, this may break cosmetic filtering on some sites. Cosmetic filters are used to hide inline ads served along with normal content. See
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With uBO enabled, I could further cut the number of distinct 3rd-party base domains down to 6 (from 10) by enabling "Anti-Facebook" and "Fanboy's Social" lists.
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And that's with generously letting Google, Facebook and Disqus through!
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This appears to be the case -- I see 1 row of bad ads instead of 2. The extra rows are still served with ABP, just hidden from view. The exception filters (default) also let Outbrain tracks users across websites -- no users benefits from this.
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IIRC users get less annoying versions of Outbrain ads.
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thechive dot com: 198 distinct 3rd-party base domains with uBO disabled (10 distinct 3rd-party base domains with uBO enabled with default settings/lists). Screenshot too high to fit Twitter's viewer, so here is link to Imgur for detailed view: imgur.com/a/uzHD7vU
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Good luck to The Chive in their experiment to see how many ad servers and trackers can be put on the one page twitter.com/acfou/status/1…
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Note to users of and , which consider Outbrain ads "acceptable" and consequently do not block them by default. These "blockers" are not standing for you, they are standing for Outbrain.
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Note to publishers. If you put Outbrain on your site, you have lost everything you ever stood for.
No seriously. I don't care if you have won several Pulitzer awards and uncovered incredibly important stories. The second you put Outbrain on your site, you are nothing.
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Beside the extra memory, something else extra AdBlock apparently needs is to ping its server log.getadblock\.com *each time* you merely open its popup panel or options page.
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In fact it's 150 MB less overall when including the extension's own memory usage.
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Kotaku loads and performs even better when using uBlock Origin instead of AdBlock -- 120 MB less memory used just for that one web page.
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Kotaku is already running great on AdBlock. It loads and performs much better than the original website.
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Eyeo being behind ublock\.org also means these past tweets on the topic can be revisited in a new light:
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Why would the team-responsible-for-AdBlock "acquire" GPL-licensed abandonware "uBlock"? ublock.org/announcement/
IMO, there is no sensible reason to "acquire" a long abandoned fork of GPL-licensed uBlock Origin, except for lust over the name recognition of "uBlock"
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Eyeo being behind AdBlock also means Eyeo is behind the site ublock\.org, the no longer updated "uBlock" in the Chrome Web Store (chrome.google.com/webstore/detai), and the abandoned repo github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBl (no commit since almost two years)
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It was prominent news back in Oct. 2015 when BetaFish was acquired by an anonymous buyer. I expected eyeo's express admission that it acquired BetaFish (now AdBlock, Inc.) would have been reported equally prominently. blog.getadblock.com/teaming-up-to-
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So at this point it appears that Adblock Plus-related people have been expressly concealing that both AdBlock and Adblock Plus are two products managed by the same entity.
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Side notes:
"AdBlock" has been removed from Opera addons store some time after Aug. 17, 2020, see web.archive.org/web/2020081713
"Adblock, Inc." is the new name for "BetaFish, Incorporated".
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The contact email address at the bottom of the page is from adblock\.org, and if you navigate to this site, you are redirected to the front page of Adblock Plus's adblockplus\.org.
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However, an Aug. 2 blog post from blog.getadblock\.com, AdBlock Inc. blog, confirms that both Adblock Plus and AdBlock are under the same entity. Ref: archive.is/p1KFg
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When BetaFish (maker of ) was acquired by an anonymous buyer in Oct. 2015, -related people denied being involved in the acquisition. Ref: theregister.com/2015/10/02/adb
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At this point, I think we may have an answer about this.
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Note that the same year (2015) BetaFish (owner of AdBlock) was sold to an anonymous buyer, a new investment item, 13.466K EUR (converted from USD), was declared on Eyeo's balance sheet -- described as "shares in affiliate companies".
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Standard bodies and browsers have a responsibility to act in accordance with user-interests: First and foremost to limit tracking as much as possible.
Why should compatibility with unethical practices (that never consulted those that are tracked) be a priority in implementation?
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My comment in @TechCrunch about further complains concerning Google's Privacy Sandbox. Complaints are further inputs for EU Commission. Privacy vs competition? Consumer detriment may happen not only from market conduct. Privacy is also notable. techcrunch.com/2021/09/28/uk-
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Note that if also taking into account background CPU usage for the same pages as those in the graph below, I get Ghostery at -28.82s, and uBO at -29.75s (lower is better). twitter.com/DebugBear/stat…
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You can find the PDF in the "Scientific papers" wiki page: github.com/gorhill/uBlock
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