pyre ,

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Evilcoleslaw ,

In addition to a lot of the default/optional lists built-in to uBO, I've found the Bypass Paywalls Clean filter to really help get rid of crappy paywalls, even without the accompanying userscript.

https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

open343 OP ,

I've long stopped using paid wall sites. Still, nice list, thanks.

iiGxC ,

https://divestos.org/pages/browsers this has instructions for setting up solid settings

open343 OP ,

This is not for uBlock Origin

iiGxC ,

Yes it is, you just didn't scroll down far enough to the tuning section https://divestos.org/pages/browsers#tuningFenix

open343 OP ,

Ah, I didn't realize that! That was good.

iiGxC ,

☺️

299792458ms ,
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You can enable medium mode but you need to allow some permissions to trusted websites like banks to not lose your head because websites are broken.

open343 OP ,

Considering that even a simple news site may try to connect to 10 different sites in the background, this can be quite a relief.

299792458ms ,
@299792458ms@lemmy.zip avatar

Hayppy Cake Day!

MrSoup ,
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I've enabled every filter.
If you find your experience a bit slow and clunky, disable cosmetic filters and keep only essential filters.

hendrik ,

I don't think enabling every filter is how it's supposed to be configured. That's just going to make your experience browsing worse. The defaults are pretty sane. I think that's like 2 of the big (and good) lists. You're supposed to enable your language specific list (with the same base name as the already activated one) along with that. And maybe the speficic ones like "Annoyances" etc. But that's it. If you also go ahead and enable all the not so good lists, that's not making it better.

MrSoup , (edited )
@MrSoup@lemmy.zip avatar

I didn't run into any issue by enabling all (excluding language specific).

Did you run into any? Or are you talking about being too much load?

hendrik ,

I didn't even try. As far as I know there are a few well maintained lists that also are fairly complete. They're even split into sub-categories so you can choose to visit facebook or have mildly annoying things, or not.
Those happen to be the lists that are enabled per default in most adblockers.

And there are lists that haven't been maintained in months or years. And lists that are known to break websites because the filtering rules aren't that well programmed.

I don't see any reason for me to enable those. I mean your mileage may vary and they might not do you any harm or break the specific sites you like to frequent.

MrSoup ,
@MrSoup@lemmy.zip avatar

Fair.

hendrik ,

Hmm. I had another look on my laptop. I might have to revise my answer: I have all the 5 uBlock lists, EasyList plus EasyList Germany and EasyPrivacy... And a few smaller ones are enabled, too. BUT I don't think those unmaintained lists I mentioned show up in uBlock anyways. So you might be fine enabling all of them.

I still think it doesn't helps after some point... But it's definitely not as bad as I said earlier... At some point I'll have to brush up my knowledge.

open343 OP ,

No, the web is terrible without cosmetic filters.

MrSoup ,
@MrSoup@lemmy.zip avatar

You are not wrong, but for example I had an old phone which could not support that much load, so I had to disable a lot of filters and flag "ignore generic cosmetic filters" to be able to surf the web without ads at least.

open343 OP ,

Yes, That makes sense for older phones.

Tehhund ,

Thank you for this! I thought Firefox for Android was slow - nope, uBlock was just doing too much.

MrSoup ,
@MrSoup@lemmy.zip avatar

Glad it helped.

hendrik ,

Same as for desktop.

open343 OP ,

Are you talking about the default settings?

hendrik ,

Not necessarily. That depends on personal preference. And IMHO you should enable some language specific filter if you visit sites in other languages than English. And the third party tracking and annoyance filters. Other than that I think the default settings are pretty good as is. But I just see no reason why someone should configure their Android uBlock differnetly than on the desktop... Just use the same settings?!

open343 OP ,

I understand, thank you. Annoyances list is very good.

just_another_person ,

Can you be more specific? Is this specifically on Firefox?

open343 OP ,

uBlock Origin is only available on Firefox for Android.

just_another_person ,

Or chrome variants. FTFY

open343 OP ,

Officially, no Chromium-based browser on Android supports uBlock Origin.

Zak ,
@Zak@lemmy.world avatar

Kiwi Browser runs nearly every extension that runs on desktop Chromium, including uBlock Origin.

open343 OP ,

Okay

just_another_person ,

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  • open343 OP ,

    I don't understand why you're trying to turn this into a ridiculous personal attack. None of the extensions have been tested with the Kiwi browser. Anyhow, enjoy using the extension-compatible Chrome on your phone.

    just_another_person ,

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  • Lightsong ,

    Look at downvotes and reflect upon that. You're just a douchebag.

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