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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by unKlever on Thursday September 24, 2015 @05:34PM (#10274924)
Do you have any tips for performance. I use chrome and ublock, umatrix and disconnect. Disconnect is a few second penalty but worth it for a free proxy. However, I am not sure whether ublock runs before uMatrix, or how much that matters. I was hoping to find a few great regex heuristics to speed things up and procide better blocking. I personally don't use 3rd party block by default because honestly why bother, sites display so shitty you might as well just noscript and whitelist.

tldr; parent or anyone interested do you have suggestions surrounding: > good filter configurations in ublock > whitelist & regex config > use uMatrix? > how to optimize for performance?

Ideally in chrome.

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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by ac29 on Thursday September 24, 2015 @09:32PM (#10275960)
uBlock can use disconnect's filter lists, its in the options. I'm not sure why you think disconnect is giving you a "free proxy", that doesn't seem to be a feature.
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by unKlever on Friday September 25, 2015 @11:40AM (#10278750)
It runs anonymous search and returns the results from their servers proxied. It offers an actual VPN if i am not mistaken, as a paid service.
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by witty_username on Friday September 25, 2015 @03:31AM (#10276782)
use tor, the latency is pretty low (at most it adds 500 ms)
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