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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by pcr910303 on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:35AM (#21026486)
> If the extension can't inspect the traffic it can't meaningfully filter content.

I’m sorry, but does uBlock Origin detects & filter ads based on contents?

I thought they maintained a database of URLs that serve ads & page elements... and Safari content blockers also have the same capability to block content based on URLs (hence can block YouTube ads).

BTW, PiHole blocks ads based on hostname... and is more incapable than Safari content blockers.

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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by ivl on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:49AM (#21026619)
uBlock Origin can be configured to do much more than a simple list based filter (like EasyList, etc). [1] It's not quite the same as detecting, but it's incredibly configurable, and that functionality can't be used when list based filtering is all that's allowed.

And I'm aware PiHole is just DNS filtering, but an extra layer of blocking is useful.

1. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering

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