Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me...
by _0ffh on Friday December 29, 2017 @07:46AM
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> It's not for non-web-devs, I feel
I don't know. I'm not a web dev (x), and I went from "dafuq?" to "I get it, this is so cool" in two minutes flat. Let's just say it sure helps if you're a technical person, not j. random user.
(x) but engineer/CS, tbh
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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me...
by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday December 29, 2017 @07:49AM
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I'm a trade qualified welder and metal fabricator and even I understand uMatrix. It's not rocket surgery.
Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me...
by klibertp on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:04AM
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> It's not rocket surgery.
Certainly, it just can take more time to sift through the list of tens of domains and deciding to allow or ban each connection if you don't already know which connections tend to be needed and which are not.
Still, it's perfectly doable for anyone if you experiment a little, and it's done once per site, so the time needed for this shouldn't be an issue. It's just that people working with this stuff will have an easier time using uMatrix - which is what I really meant in my comment above :)
Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me...
by QAPereo on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:43AM
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Same here, and Iām not an engineer or CS. uMatrix is IMO something a bright child could work out through trial and error.
Basically, yes, see uMatrix. It's not for non-web-devs, I feel, but if you can easily recognize unnecessary connections it works pretty well.