New Update uBlock Origin update thread

[rain2reign]

That particular test, don't work for me anyway. Links that it says aren't blocked, are actually, in fact blocked on other sites and services (real world results)...

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Also using uBO Lite now.
I only hope he will add a list for cookie warnings as requested here:

Add a list for cookies warnings · Issue #5 · uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

UBO Lite v.0.1.22.9305 Extended filtering enabled. Please add rules for cookies warnings. The list "AdGuard Cookie Notices filter" https://filters.adtidy.org/windows/filters/18.txt at least in UBO,...

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Cookie warnings and the occasional newsletter popups are the only annoying things not currently not blocked in the complete mode.

 

[Jan Willy]

That particular test, don't work for me anyway. Links that it says aren't blocked, are actually, in fact blocked on other sites and services (real world results)...

Yes, testing ad- and tracker blockers and filterlists works better in a real world scenario. I use for this, tracking sites that are listed on WhoTracks.me - Bringing Transparency to Online Tracking
Especially the site https://www.fastcompany.com/ is a tough one.

 

[oldschool]

This is a good reference for filter lists for use in all user modes:

GitHub - yokoffing/filterlists: Collection of blocklists to fill in the gaps

Collection of blocklists to fill in the gaps. Contribute to yokoffing/filterlists development by creating an account on GitHub.

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[plat]

This is a good reference for filter lists for use in all user modes:

Nice, oldschool, thanks a lot! Am considering a couple of lists but already have most of those added or enabled already, which is a good thing.
Not as paranoid about the number of filters any more; Firefox still runs fine w/over 400K of 'em.

 

[rain2reign]

This is a good reference for filter lists for use in all user modes:

GitHub - yokoffing/filterlists: Collection of blocklists to fill in the gaps

Collection of blocklists to fill in the gaps. Contribute to yokoffing/filterlists development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The explanations about the respective filterlists certainly make it a good reference. However, without intending to sound rude, I have some serious question marks at the combination of it all... Either the user is too paranoid and needs to learn to use/create userscripts and manage as well as host his own dns/firewall server and TOR node on top of it. And that is just the beginning, or the user misunderstood lots of things regarding the purposes of those respective filterlists.

And I'm still not referring to the sheer amount of overlap of quite a few of those lists.

 

[oldschool]

The explanations about the respective filterlists certainly make it a good reference.

and it was only offered as a reference, not advice to use every list.

 

[Jan Willy]

For people who belong to or are oriented on the western world I highly recommend next filterlist:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kees1958/W3C_annual_most_used_survey_blocklist/cc062f1d32193fa3aeda2647dd2fefa0c4e4d3ab/EU_US%2Bmost_used_ad_and_tracking_networks.txt

And let's not forget the possibilities of uBO medium - and hard mode. Often more effective than filterlists. But greater chance to break websites.

 

[Jan Willy]

And I'm still not referring to the sheer amount of overlap of quite a few of those lists.

That's not a big problem for uBO, that can handle this well. On the site GitHub - yokoffing/filterlists: Collection of filters to fill in the gaps you can see that from the list oisd full 85157 rules are not used because they are covered by other lists.

 

[rain2reign]

That's not a big problem for uBO, that can handle this well. On the site GitHub - yokoffing/filterlists: Collection of filters to fill in the gaps you can see that from the list oisd full 85157 rules are not used because they are covered by other lists.

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From my perspective, Its not about Firefox's ability nor uBlock Origin's ability to be able to handle it. It's more about efficiency vs bandwidth ratio. If that makes any sense, since majority of his filters overlap waay to much.

Edit: Example from the built-in filters being enabled on both Adguard annoyances+social and Fanboy annoyances, or 1Hosts-Pro and OISD Full (not limited to). While either example serves the same purpose as the filter they are compared with. Plus, it would make it more manageable for the user/admin whether they are on uBlock or other services using hosts file lists (e.g. dns ad blocking). Just my 2cents though.

 

[HarborFront]

For people who belong to or are oriented on the western world I highly recommend next filterlist:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kees1958/W3C_annual_most_used_survey_blocklist/cc062f1d32193fa3aeda2647dd2fefa0c4e4d3ab/EU_US%2Bmost_used_ad_and_tracking_networks.txt

And let's not forget the possibilities of uBO medium - and hard mode. Often more effective than filterlists. But greater chance to break websites.

You sure that's the latest list?

Mine is version 2022.07.06

 

[plat]

you can see that from the list oisd full 85157 rules are not used because they are covered by other lists.

If that's the case, (and I have several instances of signif. overlap), what do you do? Do you disable the list altogether? Or waste a lot of time trying to find other lists that can reduce or eliminate the overlap?

I'm just asking out of curiosity. I found it impossible myself to make perfect fits with these lists so I just leave it be. Example:



38666 used of 47189 .entries. If i disable uBlock Origin altogether, performance actually goes down in a few cases. For example: Wilders has this large cookie notice and this cuts performance by a bit. Tiny but noticeable. I mean, one person's ways may not suit another person's but partial list activation hasn't dragged things down on here.

 

[Jan Willy]

You sure that's the latest list?

Mine is version 2022.07.06

There are several versions. See GitHub - Kees1958/W3C_annual_most_used_survey_blocklist: This blocklist is based on published surveys of most used advertising and tracking technology
Edit: some minutes ago there was an update:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kees1958/W3C_annual_most_used_survey_blocklist/master/EU_US%2Bmost_used_ad_and_tracking_networks.txt

First mentioned site says about the update frequency:

 

[Jan Willy]

From my perspective, Its not about Firefox's ability nor uBlock Origin's ability to be able to handle it. It's more about efficiency vs bandwidth ratio. If that makes any sense, since majority of his filters overlap waay to much.

Edit: Example from the built-in filters being enabled on both Adguard annoyances+social and Fanboy annoyances, or 1Hosts-Pro and OISD Full (not limited to). While either example serves the same purpose as the filter they are compared with. Plus, it would make it more manageable for the user/admin whether they are on uBlock or other services using hosts file lists (e.g. dns ad blocking). Just my 2cents though.

I understand. I'm not a fan of so many filterlists. Observing the uBO log has learned me a little bit to choose the most effective filterlists. It depends much of the sites you visit. It's rather subjective.

 

[HarborFront]

There are several versions. See GitHub - Kees1958/W3C_annual_most_used_survey_blocklist: This blocklist is based on published surveys of most used advertising and tracking technology
Edit: some minutes ago there was an update:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kees1958/W3C_annual_most_used_survey_blocklist/master/EU_US%2Bmost_used_ad_and_tracking_networks.txt

First mentioned site says about the update frequency:
View attachment 270312

Thanks. Just updated to the latest with version: 2022.10.27

 

[oldschool]

Release uBOLite_0.1.22.10281 · gorhill/uBlock

Release notes

Mainly just a release with the latest changes to filter lists.

Refer to log.txt to see filters which could not be converted due to MV3 incompatibility. At the moment not all discarded filters are necessarily reported in there

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

uBOLite_0.1.22.10295 released

Release notes​

Fixed not injecting scriptlets et al. in embedded frames, which could prevent uBOL from properly defusing many cases of anti-blockers.

Side note: In general, anti-blockers should be properly defused when using Optimal filtering mode, as the Complete mode may be more likely to cause detection by anti-blocker mechanisms. If you are using Complete mode and an anti-blocker is triggered, try lowering to Optimal mode, this can be done on a per-site basis from the popup panel.

Refer to log.txt to see filters which could not be converted due to MV3 incompatibility. At the moment not all discarded filters are necessarily reported in there

Release uBOLite_0.1.22.10295 · gorhill/uBlock

uBO Lite (uBOL), an experimental permission-less MV3 API-based content blocker. See summary description/documentation. Release notes Fixed not injecting scriptlets et al. in embedded frames, which ...

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[Gandalf_The_Grey]

uBOLite_0.1.22.11056 released

Release notes​

Added support for csp= filters.

Refer to log.txt to see filters which could not be converted due to MV3 incompatibility. At the moment not all discarded filters are necessarily reported in there

Release uBOLite_0.1.22.11056 · gorhill/uBlock

uBO Lite (uBOL), an experimental permission-less MV3 API-based content blocker. See summary description/documentation. Release notes Added support for csp= filters. Refer to log.txt to see filters ...

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[Gandalf_The_Grey]

uBOLite_0.1.22.11075 released

Release notes​

• Do not merge rules with errors (doing so caused valid rules to be erroneously discarded).

Refer to log.txt to see filters which could not be converted due to MV3 incompatibility. At the moment not all discarded filters are necessarily reported in there

Release uBOLite_0.1.22.11075 · gorhill/uBlock

uBO Lite (uBOL), an experimental permission-less MV3 API-based content blocker. See summary description/documentation. Release notes Do not merge rules with errors (doing so caused valid rules to ...

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[Gandalf_The_Grey]

uBlock Origin 1.45.0 released

Fixes​

• Try to inject scriptlets at onResponseStarted() time
• Harden scriptlet injections
  • Might fix "ublock origin not blocking ads in the sidebar of Opera GX while using youtube music", to be confirmed
• Fix improperly detecting ruleset changes re. dynamic URL filtering
• Add new scriptlet: xml-prune
• New cosmetic filter parser using CSSTree library
  • Breaking change: filter list authors, please read the commit message
• Add support to report/filter SVG image elements in element picker
• Add original Firefox-authored google-ima shim script
• element-picker: Declare we support both light and dark color-schemes by @emilio
• Redesign document-blocked page
• Make popup panel reflect state of the actual blocked page
• Unescaped escaped commas in regex-based removeparam values
• Fix redundant calls to extract image data
• Extend matches-css() to support any pseudo-element

Release 1.45.0 · gorhill/uBlock

Commits to master since this release Commits since last release To install the stable build: Firefox: Review pending uBO works best on Firefox. Chromium: Submission pending Edge: Install from...

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