How many Kilowatts has this man saved by computers not having to load trackers and render ad banners!?

I think the electricity savings pale compared to the value of human time saved.

It's both: the borrow terminology from the MBAs, it's a win-win situation!

No kidding. How do we thank this person? Compensate the effort?

he has explicitly denied the option for donations, which is excellent moral standing from my POV. However, it does beg the question - how can the community reward people who want to do this sort of work?

Perhaps a gigantic status of him standing over a harbor? Or a national holiday?

To be fair, the people who tirelessly maintain the filter lists should also be given accolades.

Accolades and money - Mr. Gorhill asks us to consider donating to the filter list maintainers instead if we want to give money to uBO.

Do you have a link or is this donating to each individual?

I guess each individual filter list; you can check your uBO settings to see which ones you use.

Yes and: apparently the moderators on reddit's r/ublock have been having rough time. At least one has quit and deleted their account because of abusive users.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Is r/ublock even needed? What is it for?

In general, I view Reddit as a complete cesspool; I'm not really sure what any sub there really needs to exist. Most OSS projects get along just fine without it (in fact, I've never heard of one that used it).

I mean, it sucks that abusive users are out there, but it is Reddit after all. For communications with users, I think the old-style method of having Bugzilla and requiring an account to file bugs is probably the best.

I can't imagine browsing the internet without uBlock installed. I honestly don't think I could.