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We will see what YouTube will come up with next. Personally, I hate all these constant changes and perfidious mechanisms that are supposed to block ad blockers. In any case, thank you for your persistent reporting and testing! And one more request: keep testing to make sure everything runs smoothly! It's a good thing to do when you're surfing anyway. I personally think this version should now do its job.
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No, your computer is not equipped with a CPU that has the SSE instructon set as a maximum. Your CPU provides the SSE2 instruction set and higher. You won't benefit from the coming release, rather the opposite as far as I understood correctly. @feodor2's English is very often not that easy to understand.
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My Browser Builds (Part 4)
AstroSkipper replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Please re-download my new, once again corrected release of uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 from this post especially if you already downloaded the old one! Now, filtering and blocking of embedded ads in YouTube videos is also working again, tested in New Moon, Serpent and Pale Moon. -
Due to the problems in terms of filtering and blocking ads in YouTube videos, I had to correct my release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 once again. I added some (necessary) code and two filter lists which were not present in uBlock Origin 1.54.0 but in uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2. The two lists are uBlock filters - Legacy and uBlock filters – Resource abuse. Here is a screenshot taken from the setting page: Additionally, I updated all filter lists once again. The new download link and all information can be found in this post: Please re-download this corrected release from the linked post above especially if you already downloaded the old one! Please, test this special version and report here! Any feedback is of course welcome! Cheers, AstroSkipper
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Here is your PSY Gangnam Style YT video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 filtered and adblocked by my new mod of uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 which will be released very soon:
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@nicolaasjan and all interested people! I have carried out further tests. After several runs in Pale Moon 32.5.2, the Led Zeppelin YouTube video in the profile with uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 suddenly showed ads. Very strange. But not in the profile with my new, upcoming release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31. Not once did advertising appear in the videos there. Thus, @nicolaasjan's observations were correct. This gave me a lot to think about and prompted me to investigate further, which I have just completed with positive results. At least, I do hope so. The YouTube website is the greatest crap ever. There are many discussion about embedded ads in YT videos and many complaints in the internet. All of them are looking for solutions, but they haven't really existed since the end of last year, You are supposed to pay for ad-free videos. YouTube recognizes uBlock Origin and prevents ads from being blocked. Anyway! At the moment, my new, coming release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31 works great and is able to block these embedded ads as the old version 1.16.4.31b2 already did. I modified the release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 once again to do the same as the new and the old one. Now, I am in testing mode again. Until now, it is working fine. Cheers, AstroSkipper
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Thanks for the tip! TBH, I know almost all the alternative options. I personally use the VLC Youtube Shortcut extension in conjunction with the most recent VLC Player and the youtube.lua file. I have various YouTube Downloaders at my disposal. And I am a great fan of your youtube-dl and yt-dlp releases.
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I also tested there my coming release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31. No ads in either of the two YouTube videos. And this release also works flawlessly and without any issues in New Moon 28, Serpent 52 and Pale Moon 32.5.2. Under both versions 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 and 1.16.4.31, I don't see any ads in the Ad Blocker Test Video. It stays empty and black. Here is a screenshot with 76 ads blocked:
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I know Youtube Downloader HD very well and use it for many years, too. YouTube in web browsers on old hardware is no longer a good idea. This site has gotten worse and worse from year to year. If I nevertheless want to watch a YT video directly in New Moon 28, I use the extension uTube or the service Invidious.
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@nicolaasjan I did further tests. This time, I tested uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 in the most recent version 32.5.2 of Pale Moon under Windows 7 on a notebook. I cleaned the profile completely. I deleted all cookies, website settings, cache and so on. I removed all remnants of previous uBlock Origin Legacy installations. I can't see any ads in either of the two YouTube videos. Please, check if you use a completely clean profile and install my mod again! In any case, delete all cookies and settings related to YouTube! Especially the file ublock0.sqlite in the subfolder extension-data.
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Thanks for reporting and your kind feedback! Very appreciated! Did you also test the two YouTube videos from the quoted post above in terms of embedded ads? I need urgently further confirmations.
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@VistaLover Can you please test the two YouTube videos from the quoted post above in terms of embedded ads under my new release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 in New Moon or Serpent but with only the preselected, default filter lists and the region-specific one enabled? I don't see any ads in either of them but @nicolaasjan does. Thanks in advance!
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Have you enabled the region and language-specific filter list NLD: Easylist Dutch? I always enable the filter list DEU: Easylist Germany. Yep! Good idea! Maybe, there are users of @roytam1's browser editions willing to test the two YouTube videos in terms of embedded ads under my new release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 in New Moon or Serpent. I personally will ask here.
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I don't see any ads in either of them. And both videos are tested by me with default lists in New Moon 28, too. As far as I can see, my fixed release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 works fine here. But we need further tests and results from other users for confirmation purpose. As for PEBCAK, I wouldn't say you are a problem.
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Can you please provide the YouTube link and a screenshot of the ads (maybe, you can outline all ads in red) you see by using uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 which is on the other hand successfully blocked by uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2? This would be very helpful for reproducing here. I personally had problems to find ads in your last provided YouTube link.
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Thanks for your detailed feedback! The original idea for creating this build was to provide all filter lists from the webextension uBlock Origin in the extension uBlock Origin Legacy. That there are filter lists which are no longer fully compatible was expected. I just wanted to correct the version uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0. Any list which is not compatible shouldn't be enabled or should be disabled if not working properly. My next release will be an update version and mod of uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2 itself with all filter lists that have already been their plus the list "uBlock filters – Quick fixes". In general, it is no problem to implement any filter lists into the code or to remove them from the code.
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My Browser Builds (Part 4)
AstroSkipper replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Please re-download my corrected release of uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 from this post especially if you already downloaded the old one! Now, it is fully working again. -
Before releasing this new version, I have corrected my latest release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 from this post: Now, it is fully working. No problems any longer when updating the filter lists. The new filter list "filters-2024.txt" is now inside the xpi file and can be retrieved correctly. Inside the xpi file, all filter lists have been replaced by the most recent ones to be more recent after installing without immediate updating. Additionally, I lowered the minVersion for Pale Moon from 28.0 to 27.0 to also install it in New Moon 27 which, for example, @roytam1 seems to use. Please re-download this corrected release from the linked post above especially if you already downloaded the old one! Please, test this special version and report here! Any feedback is of course welcome! Cheers, AstroSkipper
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I have just created a new mod of uBlock Origin Legacy. No copy and paste from the webextensions of uBlock Origin any longer due to incompatibilities. All filter lists can now be updated properly, at least there are no errors at the moment. I removed the self-update mechanism of the internal list which contain the default filter lists. I added the filter list "uBlock filters – Quick fixes" to the default ones. Both, the new filter list "filters-2024.txt" and the one from last year "filters-2023.txt" are now inside the xpi file and can be retrieved correctly. From now on, we will get the update of these filters, too. Furthermore, I solved the annoyance with the timestamp of some filter lists. Now, the timestamps are shown correctly. Inside the xpi file, all filter lists have been replaced by the most recent ones to be more recent after installing without immediate updating. I am now in testing mode. Cheers, AstroSkipper
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Thanks for the tip! I added this filter list in "Custom", too. Works great.
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I use https://curbengh.github.io/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter-online.txt and have removed the obsolete link from rhe code of the internal list. BTW, from now on, I try to avoid GitLab links if possible. GitLab causes errors (see the uBlock Logger) as they force the user to login into their account.
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As for my mod uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0, it worked properly last year but the changes the uBlock admins have performed in terms of the year 2024 at the end of 2023 cause unfortunately some problems when updating the filter list "uBlock filters - Ads". I have to examine this issue more deeply the next days.
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@nicolaasjan The original, untouched version uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2 performs again properly the updating process of its filter lists (including the list filters-2024.txt) except for the list "Online Malicious URL Blocklist". Did you also observe this error? In any case, I found the cause of this issue and had to also edit the code of this version to fix it.
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I have revised my opinion a little, as the list is apparently still being updated despite the unrecognisable timestamp.