NoCoin
uBlock
NoCoin | uBlock | |
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3 | 9 | |
1,590 | 8,086 | |
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0.3 | 0.0 | |
over 3 years ago | over 1 year ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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NoCoin
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Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've ever built?
My most impactful project was definitely NoCoin [0], the first web miner blocker. Back when Monero miners started appearing and sneakily mining on pages, like The Pirate Bay for example, I decided to throw together a browser extension that would simply block requests to the resources that hosted these mining scripts. The project was in no way a technical achievement, it was simply intercepting requests and blocking them based on a list. I could have very well added the resources to some other project like uBlock origin. But it got traction, ended up in the press (WIRED, Motherboard, Gizmodo) and ultimately started being integrated within browsers (Opera was first) and most of the popular ad blockers. The project lost its relevance as everyone else was doing it better and maintaining the list of blocked resources was too time consuming for me. Nevertheless, the goal was achieved, which was to "get rid" of crypto mining on the web. The mission got carried by bigger actors, which brings me more satisfaction than the popularity of the project.
Another impactful project of mine was also a browser extension. Internal tool that started as a lunch time project to make my team's life easier. Can't go in detail on that one, but basically they liked it and start suggesting improvements. So did a department that was working with us. And bit by bit, it became a really useful tool that became standard in these departments. Last I heard, the tool is now deployed company-wide. Crazy to think it started just from some lunch time hacking :-)
[0] https://github.com/keraf/NoCoin
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Nonprofit Websites Are Full of Trackers. That Should Change.
Which in of itself is not a huge dealbreaker since the code is open source and can be found Here, unfortunately after reading their GitHub they are no longer supporting the extension (which makes sense since browsers can stop most mining activity nowadays)
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me_irl
Genuine tip, lots of those sites use your computer to mine bitcoin. If you download a browser extension like No Coin, the videos load a lot faster. Can't verify it for every site, but when it works, it works.
uBlock
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Is there any Firefox add-on that removes reddit ads?
thanks for your explanation, I now understand about what scripts you wrote on your previous answer. But I meant something a bit different I think - probably didn't make it clear enough - here and here is this my question talked about in official github where the ublock owner (I assume) answered that "This would run counter to what I see as an ideal", so this behaviour was disabled intentionally and will never come back. So sorry for bothering you, I think that concludes my question, because haters are already downvoting it smh
- TIL that this happened 8 years ago
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Browsing in 2022
I was there, not sure how you couldn't be there unless you're new to the internet and browser addons in general. Pretty common knowledge that he gave the project away. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/38 https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1019975271443771392 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock\_Origin#uBlock nothing is misleading, gorhill says it himself. Just stop spreading bullshit I still can't figure out why you looked at articles instead of just the events of it actually happening https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/issues/1419
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Using Adblockers does hurt Content creators
For those interested this can be done on ad blockers but they are not the default. For ublock origin you will even have to write your own rules.
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Why aren't Phishing URL Blocklist and PUP Domains Blocklist enabled by default?
To reiterate, the reason why annoyance filter lists are not enabled by default is because of higher likelihood of site breakage, not because of performance concerns, see https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.2.8.
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overflow:hidden solution for GDPR consent buttons/elements
I've posted this issue a while ago: https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/issues/1831
- [Suggestion] Ability to see detailed filter stats
- Feasibility of a network-level browser based adblocking proxy?
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Wow github is actually pretty addicting
It's a hub for open-source code. You can share your code, but also contribute to others code. For example, here is uBlock's source code. If there is a bug when you use it, you can ask other users if they know how to fix it. Or better, you can download the code yourself, find the bug and fix it. Then you can send that fix to them and it gets added to the code. Now you have personally improve that tool!
What are some alternatives?
BetterViewer - a replacement for the image viewing mode built into Firefox and Chrome-based web browsers.
noscript - The popular NoScript Security Suite browser extension.
lsblk - List information about block devices in the FreeBSD system.
De-Mainstream-YouTube-Extension - De-Mainstream YouTube A browser extension to remove Mainstream Media results from YouTube searches.
uBlock - uBlock: a fast, lightweight, and lean blocker for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. [Moved to: https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock]
ttv_adEraser - TTV AdEraser aims to remove livestream ads as well as add some useful features to our favourite streaming site.
youtube - [top~1 open YouTube & Video web-extension] Enrich your experience & choice! 🧰100+clever features📌set&forget📌Longest-standing(yet rare&tough alone. Please help/join🧩us👨‍👩‍👧‍👧) ..⋮ {playback|content discovery|player|extra buttons|distractions|related videos|shorts|ads|quality|codec|full tab|full screen}
hush - 🤫 Noiseless Browsing – Content Blocker for Safari
mil - A small, concatenative programming language. Implemented in C99.
google-calendar-crx - Google Calendar for Chrome
automount - Simple devd(8) based automounter for FreeBSD
NONIOBlocker - Remover o NONIO nunca foi tão fácil