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55 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
uBO will prevent the ad from PLAYING but it still SHOWS the ad.
At least for Chromium-based.
In contrast to UXP browsers such as New Moon 28, all current Chrome browsers are extremely limited and restricted. Webextensions don't have the permissions that legacy extensions have. This is one of the main reasons why I avoid Chrome browsers when I can.
Nevertheless, provide a link to the YouTube video where ads are still shown despite blocking by uBO! 
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19 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:20 hours ago, Felipefpl said:
An interesting thing happened in the site i reported: www.ovagames.com - although the problem with anti-adblock was solved (thanks again AstroSkipper) when you click anywhere in the site ads are opened and they are blocked but sometimes another tab is opened displaying a message saying that the link was reported as bad by easylist. This doesnt happen with firefox with the latest ublock versions.
If you compare the behaviour of the legacy extension with the webextension, you should only use the same filter lists in both. And you also have to look at which filter lists you combine with each other in order to achieve an optimum result. But one thing is clear. The legacy extension lags almost 6 years behind the webextension in terms of development. This means that the latter uses a much more advanced filter engine than the legacy version.
I have opened the website www.ovagames.com again by New Moon 28 with a fully configured uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.35. No problems here. No additional pop-ups or any other ads.
Surfing there is easy and smooth.
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4 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
I was really attempting to AVOID having a GIGANTIC number of lists (ie, I was trying to keep the number lists UNDER SIX).
In my New Moon 28 profile, I have enabled 21 filter lists plus my self-created filters under the tab "My filters". I can't notice any serious impact caused by New Moon 28 (at the moment, 318 MB RAM usage by palemoon.exe).
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18 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
I'm going to keep my current setup.
I only need *ONE* list to block YouTube ads but it is not a uBO list, it's ONE list inside "AdBlock - best ad blocker".
It defeats the purpose if I need to extend my FIVE uBO lists to TWENTY-SOME lists.
My five uBO + one "AdBlock - best ad blocker" seems just fine for my needs.
If your list would have worked for uBO to block YouTube ads by using six or seven lists instead of five but one extension instead of two, that would have been a step in the right direction.
But jumping my 5 lists up to 20-some, nope, I'll pass. But thanks again for the suggested TWO lists, but no, adding those two lists did not prevent the need for my one extra extension.
I would never use two ad blockers at once. uBlock Origin is totally sufficient and can block most things. But it has to be configured correctly. Your five lists are not sufficient. Even the two YouTube lists can't change that. All filter lists under "Built-in" should be enabled. But uBO can do much more. You can remove annoying elements from websites and create your own filters, and so on.
And BTW, one further extension consumes more resources than enabling a few filter lists in uBO.
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53 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
Seems the LISTS between uBO-Mozilla and uBO-Chromium are DIFFERENT. I see nothing called "quick fixes" and nothing called "goodbyeads-youtube".
BTW, you can't find them there. These list were added in my mod uBlock Origin Legacy by myself. Anyway! Using uBlock Origin and a sufficient number of good filter lists means no ads in YouTube videos.
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2 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
Didn't work but thanks for providing the list info.
What didn't work?
You should enable all built-in filter lists and some more. And import both YouTube lists!
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I checked my release on Android. Here they are:
uBlock filters – Quick fixes: https://ublockorigin.github.io/uAssets/filters/quick-fixes.txt
GoodbyeAds-YouTube-AdBlock-Filter: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jerryn70/GoodbyeAds/master/Formats/GoodbyeAds-YouTube-AdBlock-Filter.txt1 -
8 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
When you HOVER OVER your YouTube-AdBlocker-Filter, can you show me what the status bar shows as the SOURCE of the list?
I am not at my desktop computer at the moment but surfing with my Android tablet. On FilterLists you will find all you need.
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2 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
I cannot use your mod uBO Legacy, it is for Mozilla-based and I run Chromium-based.
That's right. But this thread is actually about @roytam1's browser releases.
:OT
You have to import these filter lists in your uBO version. You can find them all on https://filterlists.com/.
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41 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
A tad OT, but what lists are you guys using in uBO?
I import my lists because I rebuild my profile often and I disable my internet during profile creation, these are the lists I'm using:
That's unfortunately not enough. What about all default uBlock filters? For blocking YouTube ads, you can enable uBlock filters – Quick fixes and GoodbyeAds-YouTube-AdBlock-Filter. In my thread, you will find my latest release containing all these filter lists and more. And in my article, you will find corresponding images of the tab Filter lists. In any case, I don't get ads in YouTube videos when using my mod uBlock Origin Legacy.
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5 minutes ago, VistaLover said:
but you didn't have to convince me in the first place
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I know that, of course. It wasn't directed at you either, but at those who are annoyed by websites that don't load properly in @roytam1's browsers. In the end, many of them can be loaded quite well if you do it right.
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New Moon 28 is the browser I mainly use from @roytam1's releases. Many websites can be loaded without serious problems. But of course, there are bloated and cumbersome sites which are loading terribly. However, some of them can be edited with the help of uBlock Origin so that they run reasonably well again. For example, you can neuter the GMX homepage and completely remove all the news, adverts, videos and so on. Or use the right filter lists to access news pages like The New York Times again. On PCWelt, around 1000 elements are blocked with my activated filter lists and runs super smoothly again. However, without uBO, it would make no sense to access such websites on older machines.
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15 minutes ago, Amigafever said:
I've noticed this too, however I'm not sure if it's really worth it. This procedure will indeed reduce its size at first, but it will very soon increase back to its usual, larger size which in my case is around 80MB.
Not sure how soon that is, but it usually doesn't take more than a day.The problem with the ublock0.sqlite file is the loading of big filter lists. If you then disable these lists at a certain time, they are not actually removed from the ublock0.sqlite file. As a result, this file continues to expand, even though the filter lists responsible for that have not been used any longer.
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27 minutes ago, Felipefpl said:
An interesting thing happened in the site i reported: www.ovagames.com - although the problem with anti-adblock was solved (thanks again AstroSkipper) when you click anywhere in the site ads are opened and they are blocked but sometimes another tab is opened displaying a message saying that the link was reported as bad by easylist. This doesnt happen with firefox with the latest ublock versions.
If you compare the behaviour of the legacy extension with the webextension, you should only use the same filter lists in both. And you also have to look at which filter lists you combine with each other in order to achieve an optimum result. But one thing is clear. The legacy extension lags almost 6 years behind the webextension in terms of development. This means that the latter uses a much more advanced filter engine than the legacy version.
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And now a tip for maintaining your uBlock Origin installation. If you enable and disable or add and delete filter lists more frequently, especially the big ones, your ublock0.sqlite file in your profile subfolder extension-data will become bloated. From time to time, I therefore recommend to backup all your settings. close your browser, delete the ublock0.sqlite file, restart the browser and restore your settings from your backup file. And there is a reason for my recommendation.
Although only recently installed, this file ublock0.sqlite has swollen to 60 MB in my installation of uBO. After my maintenance, it shrunk to 30 MB with the same settings. 
50% less! And the smaller this file, the better. Less RAM consumption, better performance. But one thing is of course clear. Sooner or later, this file will become bloated again. That's why I said that this file should be maintained from time to time, especially to get rid of outdated content.
Cheers, AstroSkipper
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Subject: uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.35
Homepage/support link of the BPCF filter list changed via auto-update. The former GitLab link has of course become obsolete, too. Forgot to change it! Offline change in next version. And don't forget getting and applying the update immediately can be triggered by the function "Purge all caches" and "Update now"! Then reload the dashboard page!
Greetings, AstroSkipper
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51 minutes ago, Felipefpl said:
Thanks for the updated version, you should create a page on github for your version of ublock. Just saying.
I already created a page on Codeberg but not on GitHub, although I have an account there, too. From this Codeberg page, all users of my mod uBlock Origin Legacy get the updated assets.json file automatically and only in the previous version additionally an important filter list but nothing else.
TBH, I am an individualist and generally do things the way I want to do them. Sorry for that!
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12 hours ago, Dixel said:
From what I remember it had a problem with saving from DuckGo. It save without the file extensions. I can be mistaken.
Unfortunately, I can't say anything about DuckDuckGo. I do not use it, not even in Mypal 68. But just for testing purpose, I will try to load pictures from this search engine next time.
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4 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:5 hours ago, egrabrych said:
does MyPal68.13.9b save "images" (*.jpg and similar formats) to the local disk without any problems?
I'm asking because I had problems with it - but they were identified so imprecisely that I prefer to refrain from describing them.
Image saving problems were already reported in Mypal 68's issues: https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68/issues/273 Personally, I never tried to save images using Mypal 68.13.9b but I will try to do so when I'm back at my desktop computer.
I was just saving some JPEG images from Google. No problems here. Anyway! You should provide some links where saving of images doesn't work for you. Then, we can see whether there is a problem or not.
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2 hours ago, VistaLover said:
... However, this is GitHub now, much more prone to succumbing to DMCA requests, so expect this to also vanish soon-ish
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More clones have been announced. So, we will see what happens.
If so, I will add alternative download links to ensure that the list can be updated in any case.
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4 minutes ago, UCyborg said:
Correct.
A round of cheering!
Thank you! These noop things have been driving me crazy. 
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1 hour ago, UCyborg said:
You haven't found anything I don't know yet. That site is triggering filters containing "redirect-rule=", it's not hitting any filters that contain "redirect=", so nothing is logged in 1.16.4.30. But if any such filter using "redirect=" would be hit, redirection itself would be logged just like in 1.6.16b1.
If I have understood you correctly now, then the logger of uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.3x does not show these noop things because in the these versions (before 1.16.6b1) the function "redirect-rule=" is not implemented and therefore can't be logged but only "redirect=". Right?
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Update notification!
- uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.35 - Special mod by @AstroSkipper
I have again updated my special mod uBlock Origin Legacy from version 1.16.4.34 to version 1.16.4.35. As already described, you can install this version over an existing installation of uBlock Origin Legacy (1.16.4.34 and higher). The immediate loading of the updated, internal list of all preselected filter lists (assets.json) can be triggered by the function "Purge all caches" and "Update now". Then reload the dashboard page! I changed the link of an important filter list to get the most recent version. More details can be found in the changelog. in my main article, and of course the download link.
Cheers, AstroSkipper
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27 minutes ago, Amigafever said:
About Bypass Paywalls Clean: official news and updated versions, here:
https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B
Not sure if the filterlist is included in the provided archive (seems to be complete) and how it can be included/updated in our browsers.
Thanks for the hint!
New list found! I will release an update of uBlock Origin Legacy as soon as possible.
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And the smaller this file, the better. Less RAM consumption, better performance. 
Offline change in next version. 
MyPal 68
in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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Great to hear such news! I'm really looking forward to the upcoming release.