uBlock Origin Suggested Settings

Re:uBlock Origin Suggested Settings by postcert on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:13AM (#24870318)

Disabling Javascript and cosmetic filters doesn't make any sense. The suggestions to add some more of the privacy filters is reasonable, but why are these settings any better than someone else's?

The website's other articles are spammy conspiracy crud anyway.

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Re:uBlock Origin Suggested Settings by 12bytes on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:43PM (#24875109)

> Disabling Javascript and cosmetic filters doesn't make any sense.

it does for those concerned with their privacy - i recommend to my readers to disable JS globally and allow it per-host where needed

as for cosmetic filters, processing them consumes more CPU

also these are suggested settings based on my experience and tailored to fit the Firefox config guides i wrote - i didn't state they were better than everyone elses

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Re:uBlock Origin Suggested Settings by tomatotomato37 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @09:28AM (#24879088)

I suggest providing a beginner whitelist at least that includes popular cdns and such. People without umatrix will most likely put themselves at risk by blanket-allowing on uncooperative sites when all they need to do is allow Cloudflare.

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Re:uBlock Origin Suggested Settings by 12bytes on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:47PM (#24875146)

> The website's other articles are spammy conspiracy crud anyway.

provide evidence where i'm wrong and i'll be happy to correct, but rubber-stamping someones content as "spammy", whatever that means, is lazy

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