uBlockOrigin

Hello friends, I have a filter I use to block posts containing keywords in their titles. The problem is, they won't work if the keyword appears at the very beginning of the post's title. This is the filter:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/\bKeyWord1\b|\bKeyWord2\b|\bKeyWord3/i)

I've tried ^KeyWord, and that doesn't work either. And I'm now at the limits of my knowledge!

Any tips?

Cheers!

You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

I got bored and ran uBlock across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously.

Claude:

• Six parallel telemetry pipelines.
• A tracking GIF with 40 browser fingerprint data points baked into the URL, routed through a CDN proxy alias specifically to make it harder to block.
• Intercom running a persistent WebSocket whether you use it or not.
• Honeycomb distributed tracing on a chat UI because apparently your conversation needs the same observability stack as a payments microservice.

ChatGPT:

• proxies telemetry through their own backend to hide the Datadog destination URL from blockers.
• uBlock had to deploy scriptlet injection — actual JS injected into the page to intercept fetch() at the API level — because a network rule wasn't enough.
• Also ships your usage data to Google Analytics. OpenAI. To Google. You cannot make this up.
• Also runs a proof-of-work challenge before you're allowed to type anything.

Gemini:

• play.google.com/log getting hammered with your full session behavior, authenticated with three SAPISIDHASH token variants, piped directly into the Google identity supergraph that correlates everything you've ever done across every Google product since 2004. - Also creates a Web App Activity record in your Google account timeline. Also has "ads" in one of the telemetry endpoint subdomains.

When uBlock blocks Gemini's requests, the JS exceptions bubble up and Gemini dutifully tries to POST the error details back to Google. uBlock blocks that too. The error messages contain the internal codenames for every upsell popup that failed to load.

KETCHUP_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MUSTARD_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MAYO_DISCOVERY_CARD.

Google named their subscription upsell popups after condiments and I found out because their error handler snitched on them.

All three of these products cost money.
One of them is also running ad infrastructure.

Touch grass. Install @ublockorigin

#infosec #privacy #selfhosted #foss #surveillance

OC by @k3ym0@infosec.exchange

Just discovered a list that blocks AI-slop pages from your Google (and >DuckDuckGo) search results:

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

A missing and important #security feature for @ublockorigin: add a per-subscription option for whether each subscription is allowed to use trusted filters, and make it default to unchecked for all non-default subscriptions. As it stands malicious compromise of any filter subscription allows arbitrary code injection into any or every page, using, for example, trusted-replace-node-text on any script element. It's the same #supplyChain threat model as malicious Python/Ruby/Node/R/etc. packages or malicious VS Code or browser extensions.

#uBlockOrigin #supplyChainSecurity #supplyChainAttack

Google finally disabled Manifest V2 extensions in Chromium version 140!

Unlike previous releases where they already tried to push users towards removing #uBlock origin and other V2 extensions, it was still possible to re enable them.
Today I had to switch to uBlock Origin Lite and jokes on you #YouTube I don't see any ads. Just two days ago they launched another attempt to prevent me from using #adblock and within hours, uBlock managed to bypass it, thanks.

#Google #Chromium

"For uBO users:

A potential fix has been published which may solve the detection issue for many users.

Click here to receive the fix, and then restart your browser.

Users will also receive the fix automatically in a few hours.

It is important that everyone understands that there are many reasons for YouTube adblock detection, and the fix may not be applicable for all cases.

If the fix doesn't resolve the issue for you, then please follow ALL of the instructions in the YouTube Mega Thread, including how to properly report issues.

For uBO Lite (uBOL) users:

A new uBO Lite (uBOL) thread has been created on GitHub for YouTube issues, and this is where all uBOL-related issues with YouTube should be posted.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/28707

The potential fix for the YT detection issue will be included in the next release of uBOL.

Please note that filters are only updated in uBOL when a new version is released, and users will need to wait until then for the fix. There is no exact date for when that will happen, but it should be relatively soon."

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1l47bqa/youtube_detection_ads_or_breakages_including/