• @mydude
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    -258 months ago

    I don’t really trust these adblockers… Has anyone tried using Greasemonkey or any of the equivalent script environments for adblocking? I know it’s posdible, but I could not find any good scripts available? Has anyone found any good scripts on github (or other places) for this?

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      208 months ago

      Why would you trust Greasemonkey and some random script over uBlockOrigin?

      Also it might be possible to do it partly but performance would inevitably be worse and I’m not sure every functionality would be implementable.

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      8 months ago

      Content blockers like uBlock use filter lists which list every single element that needs to be blocked across the entire web. I currently have nearly 700000 of these filters active. That is very far outside the scope of a simple script. Basically all ad blocking userscripts are site-specific and they still usually block significantly less than uBlock would on the same site. Also, userscripts are not safer than extensions.

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        -248 months ago

        Firemonkey is open-source, random scripts can easily be inspected. I know performance probably will suck, but I know the code being run don’t monitor me. Can you say the same for uBlock?

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      28 months ago

      Why do you trust Greasemonkey and some random script? That’s far less safe than just installing uBlock Origin.