uAssets VS AdguardFilters

1. Force uBlock Origin out.

2. Reimplement its features selectively.

uBlock Origin comes with a filter called 'Block Outsider Intrusion into LAN'[0].

[0] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/...

Migrate to Firefox and install uBlock Origin, you will have this feature and more.

fixed https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/613159034ef6eed417516e90710474dfab42a808

BTW the whole issue was this, https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/de85f38ad297a6724d3f06d360f1693ab29599ad

Aternos is problematic. See issue https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/13144

Fixing anti-adblock may cause ads or breakages. If you see any issue, please report back the EXACT URL and your country when accessing the URL so volunteers are able to investigate by commenting here or in this thread on github.

Looking at the filters that uBlock is using, it still seems to be some sort of regex on the xhr request/response body [1]. Why can't youtube trivially defeat this by encrypting everything?

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/fb33bb3c1fa99...

a) How does ublock (-the extention-) upgrade . i suppose what that purge caches does is going to the repo and grabs the latest lists/ids etc ... but if during this battle you had to upgrade the extention itself was this done via the extention store or the the extention goes grabs the new version by it self ?

Mega thread issue on GitHub tracking this https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976

Reddit is not and should not be considered a tech support site.

YouTube is stepping up the anti-adblock nonsense and will be disabling playback after 3 videos

Personally, this sort of arms race is only going to cause me to not use YouTube

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/assets/47215043/f76f8ea2-3dd4-43ef-8293-353243cc5863

(Apologies if this was shared already)

Tracking issue for uBlock Origin: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976

As far as Safari-compatible ad blocking extensions, I've been reasonably satisfied with AdGuard, and it's free with some paid nice-to-haves which I don't use, but hear good things about. It's available on nearly every browser and operating system, including Android and iOS. It's also open source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdGuard

https://adguard.com

https://github.com/AdguardTeam

uBlock Origin has a few lists for cookie banners that I always keep on [0][1]

[0] https://github.com/easylist/easylist/tree/master/easylist_co...

[1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...

! trusted filter (not sure if it affects the query part) ||amazon.com/*/ref=$urltransform=/\/ref=.*// ! does not require trust, but likely will break stuff (it's too broad) ! you can use "AdGuard URL Tracking Protection" - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/blob/fff7e0702850ec9298e7825fc04563990bc40a2e/TrackParamFilter/sections/specific.txt#L1322-L1394 ||amazon.com^$removeparam

Keep in mind that neither of those lists are default lists and neither are maintained by the uBlock Origin team. Issues with those lists should be reported to their maintainers: - AdGuard URL Tracking Protection: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues - Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool: https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/discussions/163

Issue: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/152943

Fixed in AdGuard Spanish/Portuguese list: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/commit/03d5583f6a0251b9b9b80280269757f29547c86d