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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by ssalazar on Thursday September 24, 2015 @06:58PM (#10275369)
I switched back to ABP when uBlock started universally blocking Sourceforge. I understand Sourceforge has engaged in a number of very shady practices lately, but I need Numpy for my job and I don't have time to work around nanny software.
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by cremno on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:10PM (#10275425)
Uninstalling uBlock, installing and setting ABP up takes less time than temporarily or even permanently disabling the blocking of SF by simply clicking on a button?
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by aganders3 on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:08PM (#10275416)
Nanny software you installed yourself? In any case, NumPy is on GitHub now.
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by dnlrn on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:15PM (#10275445)
uBlock didn't start to universally block sourceforge, they just added sourceforge to their "uBlock filters - badware risks" list, which is justified imo. If you don't want this behaviour, just disable the list.
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by kzrdude on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:04PM (#10275664)
I'm always happy with the reminder that I happened to follow a link to sourceforge. I don't need anything there..
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by mintplant on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:29PM (#10275766)
Couldn't you have turned off uBlock for that site via the toolbar button?
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by gorhill on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:23AM (#10276494)
One doesn't even need to turn off uBlock if one disagrees with the wholesome blocking of sourceforge.net: right in the warning page, uBlock Origin offers the user to remove temporarily or permanently the wholesome blocking for the site.
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by nitrogen on Friday September 25, 2015 @02:33AM (#10276668)
An OT grammar note: if the sentence doesn't seem clear at first, it's possible "wholesome" should be "wholesale". I think.
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by gorhill on Friday September 25, 2015 @07:57AM (#10277602)
Oops, right, I meant "wholesale".
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