uAdBlock is back again

beli3ver

Good morning,

thanks to the help of the community, the backend service for the uAdblock project has been redeveloped.
Through this new development, it is possible to provide much more resource efficient and faster the lists for all users.
Thus, the maintenance effort has decreased by almost 90%, which allows me to continue to provide the service to you.

Thus, all services are back online, backend and domain, and it follows in the course of the next 48 hours an update of the app, which even adds 4 additional lists and fixes some minor errors.

I would like to thank the community for their support, be it financial, cooperation or just sympathy, which has shown me how important this project is for everyone.

Lakotaubp

@beli3ver Well said, this is indeed a great Community and project.

Moem

That is very good news! This is such a worthwhile project.

cliffcoggin

Thank you for this invaluable application. I look forward to the update.

3T_Ed

We have taken uAdblock for granted for years. We shouldn't have and know better now, it was only this close before it had to be shut down.

Many thanks to you and all involved for this second chance to keep this important application available to the community.

beli3ver

Currently, there is a broken version in the store.
The new clickable 7 break the build process.
Will fix it soon.

domubpkm

V 2.7.3 on Volla RC, hosts file 18 lists 30.5 MB

mihael

@domubpkm I have the same but I still get youtube adds

domubpkm

@mihael Yes. See https://forums.ubports.com/topic/7696/is-there-a-method-too-add-block-on-youtube-without-paying/1
I'm not sure at all, but MAYBE later it would be possible to install scripts in morph to block that with https://gitlab.com/ubports/core/morph-browser/-/merge_requests/527 as it can be done in other browsers like Firefox for example.. or NOT..

arubislander

@mihael Aren't YouTube adds inserted directly into the video stream? That would make them difficult to block.

domubpkm

In fact, i found a solution to read youtube videos in browser without being annoying by consent popup :
Try opening an embedded youtube video link.

For example with :

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N351nsAMBg4

You transform the link in :

https://youtube.com/embed/N351nsAMBg4

It should work in most cases

magdesign

Great to hear to its alive again, thanks to everyone!

@mihael
a workaround is to use UBdious

rik

@beli3ver thanks again to the community for helping keep this going, and thanks for your contributions.

As a casual user, is there a simple guide / "recommended" set of blocklists to use? Or maybe a brief summary of the different providers, such as:

Energized vs. StevenBlack since they both provide multiple?

From another angle, is there any performance negative to just "enabling all" and then if it is blocking too much to dig a bit further?

Thanks for any guidance

Keneda

@rik
My bank site login was no longer working because of "enable all" so yes it can have side effects.

domubpkm

@rik said in uAdBlock is back again:

brief summary of the different providers

To have details about lists, you can do some researchs on https://filterlists.com/
For example :

3T_Ed

Since last update of the app I noticed that some sources for my RSS feeds (uRsses / @darkeye ) do not load anymore. In uAdblock currently all 18 filters are applied.

Tried to search by domains in the filter overviews provided by the link in the post above (thanks @domubpkm ). Searching for a specific domain did not result in pin pointing the filter causing the blacklisting.

Looking for the best and easiest way to whitelist specific domains to allow them as exceptions to uAdblocker in order to allow them to be available in RSS feeds and Morph Browser.

Any pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks.