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Tips and tricks waterfall
Short but useful tips and tricks, randomly added.
In response to this ridiculously over-the-top pure propaganda piece, whose purpose is to manipulate people into compliance to the one specific business model ad-driven websites chose for themselves.
Left: without a blocker: 124 domains (note that I had Flash plug-in disabled, it would have been worse if it had been enabled -- I wasn't ready to go that far to make my point).
Right: default-deny with noop'ing of site's own domains (bestofmedia.com
, bestofmicro.com
): 3 domains. Page appeared properly rendered.
The content of the picture below is not fabricated, it's really what was reported by uBlock Origin (uBO).
As I often say, ads are only the small visible tip of the iceberg of the insidious privacy-invading data mining of people, without their fully informed consent.
When creating a new tab and clicking a tile, here is what is reported for the behind-the-scene scope:
09:36:36 xhr https://tiles.services.mozilla.com/v2/links/click
09:36:34 xhr https://tiles.services.mozilla.com/v2/links/view
So here is a dynamic filtering rule to foil this new Firefox data-mining behavior:
behind-the-scene tiles.services.mozilla.com * block
If you would rather not use dynamic filtering, the following custom static filter will also work:
||tiles.services.mozilla.com^$domain=behind-the-scene
- Wiki home
- About the Wiki documentation
- Permissions
- Privacy policy
- Info:
- The toolbar icon
- The popup user interface
- The context menu
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Dashboard
- Settings pane
- Filter lists pane
- My filters pane
- My rules pane
- Trusted sites pane
- Keyboard shortcuts
- The logger
- Element picker
- Element zapper
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Blocking mode
- Very easy mode
- Easy mode (default)
- Medium mode (optimal for advanced users)
- Hard mode
- Nightmare mode
- Strict blocking
- Few words about re-design of uBO's user interface
- Reference answers to various topics seen in the wild
- Overview of uBlock's network filtering engine
- uBlock's blocking and protection effectiveness:
- uBlock's resource usage and efficiency:
- Memory footprint: what happens inside uBlock after installation
- uBlock vs. ABP: efficiency compared
- Counterpoint: Who cares about efficiency, I have 8 GB RAM and|or a quad core CPU
- Debunking "uBlock Origin is less efficient than Adguard" claims
- Myth: uBlock consumes over 80MB
- Myth: uBlock is just slightly less resource intensive than Adblock Plus
- Myth: uBlock consumes several or several dozen GB of RAM
- Various videos showing side by side comparison of the load speed of complex sites
- Own memory usage: benchmarks over time
- Contributed memory usage: benchmarks over time
- Can uBO crash a browser?
- Tools, tests
- Deploying uBlock Origin
- Proposal for integration/unit testing
- uBlock Origin Core (Node.js):
- Troubleshooting:
- Good external guides:
- Scientific papers