uBlockOrigin/uAssets on Hacker News

…(successfully) evading ad blockers for a long time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21688816 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/3367

comment by surround · 2020-06-17 · in Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

I don't think uBlock can or does block it, here's the issue that tracks the research into it: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184 as well as an attempt to block them here: https://github.com/instance01/Twitch-HLS-AdBlock…

comment by plopz · 2019-11-20 · in uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking

…(Not subscribed in a default setting) has a filter[1] already to override this dark pattern. [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/05a3fea080d06...

comment by asquabventured · 2019-10-29 · in Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

…issue is usually worked around in uBO when they are reported on uBO's own filter issue tracker: < https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues> .

comment by gorhill · 2019-10-22 · in Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

…blocking Twitch's SureStream ads? Interestingly I found this while looking around for the answer: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184#issuecom...

comment by plopz · 2019-09-20 · in Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari

…info on why both are needed (& why for chrome but not firefox) in some reddit threads.[3][4][5] [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/227#issuecomm... [2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=487422 [3]…

comment by yourduskquibble · 2019-04-19 · in Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire

…by Instart Logic. [1] [2] [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra/wiki/Sites-on-which-uBO... [2] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/227

comment by yourduskquibble · 2019-04-19 · in Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire

> My hunch tells me this is not good. After some clicking I found this: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/4080#issuecom... , might be interesting

comment by d0bby · 2019-04-15 · in Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in web pages

…This uBlock Origin issue has been open for half a year and none of the default lists block the ads: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/3367

comment by singron · 2019-02-08 · in Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline

…discussion on the uBlockOrigin repo trying to detect this markdown mangling is super interesting: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/3367#issuecom...

comment by modo_ · 2019-02-08 · in Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline

…d_story_id_]:has([id*=feed_sub_title_]):has(span:has-text(/S.*p.*o.*n.*s.*o.*r.*e.*d/)) GitHub issue: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/3367 [1]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1092191140168622080

comment by mholt · 2019-02-08 · in Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline

…UNRELATED to the web site ublock.org. edit: and here is a commit blocking the site ublock.org - https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/82067d1ef3370...

comment by ad1ttya · 2018-07-28 · in An update on uBlock

…rate: EasyList/EasyPrivacy: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commits/master uBlock Origin: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commits/master Add to this all the regional lists, specific-purpose lists, the hosts files (Peter…

comment by gorhill · 2018-05-04 · in Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)

…prevent sites that rely on Analytics being there from throwing an error and stop working. See here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/415820d7561a5cb...

comment by echeese · 2018-03-23 · in Google analytics integrated in to Chrome

…be too pushy and would rather let him come to his own conclusion on whether to include or not. [0] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/pull/872

comment by yourduskquibble · 2018-03-13 · in Mozilla working on in-page popup blocker for Firefox

Actually they're already blocking them. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/...

comment by esnard · 2018-02-20 · in Salon magazine mines crypto-cash with readers' PCs

…/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium... [2] https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commits/master https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commits/master

comment by gorhill · 2017-12-29 · in Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures

Some list i have in uBlock Origin already blocks CoinHive's miner ( https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/690 ), i guess this will follow soon. Mining services are fighting back by registering additional "random" domains though:…

comment by helb · 2017-10-12 · in Show HN: Coinerra – JavaScript Crypto Miner

I've just opened an issue at uBlockOrigin with information on the URLs used by this thing: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/743

comment by AlbertoGP · 2017-10-07 · in Testing Cliqz in Firefox

uBlock Origin added some filters for miner scripts: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/690

comment by dbcooper · 2017-09-26 · in CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers

Issue at uBlock's GitHub – "[Request for block] Crypto Miners": https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/690

comment by helb · 2017-09-18 · in Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners

It's in the official uBlock filters list now. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/7a32aa2efb033...

comment by chrissnell · 2017-08-30 · in Deploying a global, private CDN

Good call. I just submitted an issue to UBlock to get their JS client added to the block lists: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/659 Sorry Edgemesh team, but this kind of activity without user opt-in is not okay.

comment by chrissnell · 2017-08-30 · in Deploying a global, private CDN

…ill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f... [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.8.0 [3] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/233#issuecomm...

comment by asquabventured · 2017-04-14 · in Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race

…div[role="article"] > div[data-testid="tweet"] > div > div:last-child:nth-child(3):nth-of-type(3)) https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/351

comment by mintplant · 2017-04-06 · in Introducing Twitter Lite

…that others are seeing ublock fail. https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/5ua042/youtub... https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/295

comment by AjithAntony · 2017-02-17 · in YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads

Link: unlock origin's resources.txt at https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/...

comment by jagatmidya · 2016-12-06 · in Reverse engineering how Publishers are detecting adblock

I created https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/173 last weekend in response to my first experience of CoinTent. At the time, I was mostly offended by the insultingly large (72KB after GZIP) JavaScript file that the system caused…

comment by mangeletti · 2016-10-27 · in CoinTent: A Sustainable Ad-Free Web

One was opened in the proper tracker issue and fixed: < https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/98> .

comment by gorhill · 2016-08-12 · in Facebook rolls out code to nullify Adblock Plus’ workaround