Comment on What are the best Ublock Origin settings for Android?

MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• open343@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, the web is terrible without cosmetic filters.

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  • MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are not wrong, but for example I had an old phone which could not support that much load, so I had to disable a lot of filters and flag “ignore generic cosmetic filters” to be able to surf the web without ads at least.

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    • open343@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, That makes sense for older phones.

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• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don't think enabling every filter is how it's supposed to be configured. That's just going to make your experience browsing worse. The defaults are pretty sane. I think that's like 2 of the big (and good) lists. You're supposed to enable your language specific list (with the same base name as the already activated one) along with that. And maybe the speficic ones like "Annoyances" etc. But that's it. If you also go ahead and enable all the not so good lists, that's not making it better.

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  • MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t run into issue by enabling all (excluding language specific).
    Did you run into any?

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    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn't even try. As far as I know there are a few well maintained lists that also are fairly complete. They're even split into sub-categories so you can choose to visit facebook or have mildly annoying things, or not.
      Those happen to be the lists that are enabled per default in most adblockers.

      And there are lists that haven't been maintained in months or years. And lists that are known to break websites because the filtering rules aren't that well programmed.

      I don't see any reason for me to enable those. I mean your mileage may vary and they might not do you any harm or break the specific sites you like to frequent.

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      • MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fair.

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• Tehhund@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank you for this! I thought Firefox for Android was slow - nope, uBlock was just doing too much.

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  • MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Glad it helped.

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