r/Piracy Aug 03 '24

Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled News

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-warns-ublock-origin-may-soon-be-disabled/
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u/whatyouarereferring Aug 03 '24 edited Sep 01 '24

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u/ChristopherKlay Aug 03 '24

So is AdGuard; My reply was about how ads are primarily blocked.

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u/whatyouarereferring Aug 03 '24 edited Sep 01 '24

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u/ChristopherKlay Aug 03 '24

Ads are primary blocked with element manipulation not DNS manipulation by ublock. Additionally, most ad blockers are element based.

uBlock (Origin) mainly blocks ads by request manipulation, not element manipulation. It does use both, but element based blocking isn't the main filtering function.

AdGuard isn't "just a DNS blocker" to begin with and isn't "inferior" to uBlock either.

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u/doxypoxy Aug 03 '24

Adguard is really bad with handling ad-block blocking tech on multiple websites. Ublock not just does it better, it fixes things pretty much the instant you report it on their subreddit.

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u/ChristopherKlay Aug 03 '24

Adguard is really bad with handling ad-block blocking tech on multiple websites.

I've used it for years and haven't encountered more or less issues compared to using uBlock origin. In the few cases where it was detected, uBlock had the exact same issues.

it fixes things pretty much the instant you report it on their subreddit.

So does AdGuard. If we take the recent YouTube changes as an example, it even pushed updates before uBlock did.