Pro@programming.dev to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 22 days agoBlock ads and trackerslichess.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down16file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareestutweh@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·22 days agoBlockbear hasn’t been updated in 7 years. Is it still relevant?
minus-squaremelroy@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up12·22 days agoJust use uBlock Origin and avoid Google chrome and you are good.
minus-squareInt32@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agouBlock origin uses blacklists, so it’s not perfect. I use uMatrix, so I have fine-grained control, and by default javascript and cookies are disabled, I only enable them for some domains if needed. you could also just block all JS…
minus-squaremelroy@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoJust note that uBlock has multiple types of lists. You can so enable additional block lists like for privacy purposes. Etc. A lot of sites depend on js too bad, disabling js all together will most likely cause you a lot of headaches.
minus-squareInt32@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoyes, but they are all blacklists, it’s allow by default. I don’t have that many problems. the big issues are when you try to login and stuff, not just view content.
minus-squareSwooshBakery624 [they/them]@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 days ago uMatrix No longer maintained, the last release was Sept 2019 except for a one-off patch to fix a vulnerability. Everything uMatrix did can be covered by prefs or other extensions: use uBlock Origin for any content blocking. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother
minus-squareInt32@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 days ago that’s not ideal but it does the job and no other extension is so good. 2 no, umatrix is unique. uMatrix has this: uBlock origin has this in ‘advanced’ mode: soure of the images: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/addons.xhtml#umatrix
Blockbear hasn’t been updated in 7 years. Is it still relevant?
Just use uBlock Origin and avoid Google chrome and you are good.
uBlock origin uses blacklists, so it’s not perfect. I use uMatrix, so I have fine-grained control, and by default javascript and cookies are disabled, I only enable them for some domains if needed. you could also just block all JS…
Just note that uBlock has multiple types of lists. You can so enable additional block lists like for privacy purposes. Etc.
A lot of sites depend on js too bad, disabling js all together will most likely cause you a lot of headaches.
yes, but they are all blacklists, it’s allow by default.
I don’t have that many problems. the big issues are when you try to login and stuff, not just view content.
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother
2 no, umatrix is unique. uMatrix has this:
uBlock origin has this in ‘advanced’ mode:
soure of the images: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/addons.xhtml#umatrix