uAssets VS uBlock

Its already been blocked by Ublock filters - badware risks: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/...

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

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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...

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.

*uMatrix is unmaintained, and uBlock Origin can do fine-grained control – it just requires the “advanced user” setting for some reason, even if you expand the panels all the way. https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/quick-guide:-popup-us... (see “I am an advanced user!” expanding section at the bottom)

No issues here on Firefox 128.4.0esr, even with uBlock Origin medium mode[1] blocking 31% of the page.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

What power? There is no “the list”. Tons of people curate their own block lists and make them available. It’s entirely up to you to pick and choose which ones you want to use that most align with your views on SEO garbage.

For example, here is a list of the blocklists available in uBlock Origin: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Filter-list-licenses

uBlock does have some things that are pretty unique, and useful outside of ads for some websites. Element Zapper is a good example. https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Element-zapper

uBO has had this for awhile, since 1.34.0 (or 1.25.0 in advanced settings).

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Settings#u...

I think that's around 2021 time frame.

To match such URL against the tens of thousand of filters, there is only a need to lookup filters for these nine tokens, and for most of these tokens there won't be any filters to test, such that in the end for any given URL only a few to no filters will end up being tested, and the majority of these filters are not regex-based, they are just plain string matching.

This is the overall simplified explanation of how it really works, in reality it's a bit more complex because there are a lot of other optimizations on top of this.

There is a built-in benchmark tool in uBO, accessible through the dashboard, _Support_ pane, _More_ button, _SNFE: Benchmark_ button[1].

When running the benchmark against a set of 230,364 URLs, I get an average of 11-12 µs per request to perform a match test against the default filter lists in uBO.

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[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-settings#ben...