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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by vosper on Saturday December 27, 2014 @10:25AM (#8802776)
I haven't tried ublock yet, is it obvious how to work back from a broken page to figure out which blacklists need adjusting?

I'd also recommend that the defaults should have YouTube and Facebook (at least) working out of the box. Otherwise I think people will just uninstall the plugin, rather than trying to figure out how to fix it, which would be a shame.

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by mijoharas on Saturday December 27, 2014 @10:43AM (#8802829)
Having just tried uBlock, the defaults do allow both Youtube and Facebook to work out of the box (and exactly the same as with adblock, as far as I can tell). I think the poster must've had some other problem. (or maybe some of the filter lists changed in between his problem and my trying it, which is equally possible)

EDIT: ( Chrome 39.0.2171.95 (64-bit), linux )

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by avree on Saturday December 27, 2014 @01:26PM (#8803399)
It works exactly like AdBlockPlus in terms of user experience. There's no way that you could have been using ABP and suddenly are flummoxed by uBlock.

If you have things being blocked you don't want, either whitelist the element or find the block rule in your rule list.

YouTube and Facebook definitely both work 'out of the box' with the recommended lists.

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by vosper on Saturday December 27, 2014 @02:06PM (#8803537)
Yes, it seems to work well for YouTube and Facebook now that I've had a chance to try it.

Still, I don't think everyone out there who has ABP installed necessarily understands how to use it, or how it works. I have installed it for my wife, and for friends, (the kind of people who spend 90% of their time on a handful of popular sites) and if Facebook or YouTube was broken they wouldn't know why or what to do about it.

EDIT: Spelling

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