uAssets VS ruffle

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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...

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)

> ... and if a site directly tells me it doesn't like my ad blocker, I leave. I haven't gone to the ad-blocker-blocker level.

You may not be aware that many such messages are themselves blocked by the default lists in ublock origin. Examples:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues?q=is%3Aissue+...

If you use uBlock Origin, did you try to submit these filters to the uBlock Annoyances[1] or EasyList Annoyances lists before starting up this project?

That would help far more people that starting up yet another Annoyances list.

1. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets

If I have noticed a new ad, to which list should I report a filter issue? Should I report the new advertisement to the issue tracker at uBlockOrigin/uAssets, or should it be reported to EasyList instead?

I'm not sure if it's related to this issue, but there was an update to twitter some hours ago: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/9eb3926d2eac7bba31dfd2ebf4c153b3adfcdfd5

μBlock Origin other than badlist, annoyances cookies, badware, and resource abuse

shrug It finds its uses. It's just not that overstated.

sandspiel is quite popular and is built using WASM: https://sandspiel.club/

Google Earth - https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/webassembly-brings-google-...

Ruffle (the "make Flash run safely" tool) - https://ruffle.rs/

Ableton's Learning Synths - https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

etc etc. It's just hard to tell when something is using WASM when it "just works" and is indistinguishable from optimized JavaScript

Out of curiosity a couple months ago I wondered if I could play my old Proximity flash game on Newgrounds from the browser within the Quest 3 VR headset, and it worked great!

That led me to do a little searching, and I discovered that originally the game didn't work in Ruffle, as I apparently did something with the play game button that wasn't normal. But someone put a fix in it back in 2020[1] in order to get my game working again. That was pretty neat. Felt kind of nice that people still cared enough about my old game to make sure it still works in an emulator.

Still working on a more in-depth sequel (using Monogame), and I'm way overdue to make a new web version of the original. Might knock that out once I get closer to getting the sequel out there.

[1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/pull/1024

The sponsors section for the open source project they are using is a trip down flash game memory lane: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/?tab=readme-ov-file#spon...

It is Flash! You're playing it with the free and open-source Flash clone Ruffle.

This is all using a really cool Flash emulator called https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

A relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/325

Seems like being able to override was the plan, but not clear it was actually done?

I couldn't find any easily available official notice, but they seem to be using Ruffle[0]

[0] https://ruffle.rs/