Adblockers that aren't horrendously lame

[andyprough]

Mozilla blows dead dogs.

I haven't had any problems so far using Chromium-Legacy, Floorp, or Waterfox.

Floorp and Waterfox are 100% dependent on dead-dog-blowing Mozilla, which is 99.9% dependent on Google.

When I want to watch a video, I usually just throw the URL over to MPV and let yt-dlp do the work. No ads, although no sponsorblock either.

[back2themoon]

There is a Greasemonkey script for it though.

I'm not sure if that's the official SponsorBlock one. I tried it (on just one video) and it didn't work.

This page will allow you to install the official one: https://mchangrh.github.io/sb.js/
Main page with some instructions, here: https://github.com/mchangrh/sb.js

The first selection script worked (GitHub/userscript). "Userscript with config" did not work. It uses the GM.setValue function which I believe is unavailable in Greasemonkey for Pale Moon (v3 VS v4). Didn't play with any of the rest of available options. Tested on Pale Moon, not Basilisk.

*updated post with some Greasemonkey info

[moonbat]

I'm not sure if that's the official SponsorBlock one.

Not official. The one you linked to is better

[Honeyko]

Floorp and Waterfox are 100% dependent on dead-dog-blowing Mozilla, which is 99.9% dependent on Google.

Speaking of Floorp, they autobricked themselves with their August 2024 "update" incompatible with Windows 8 and MacOS Mojave (and earlier) systems, which they formerly ran upon. Their updater breezily downloaded the "update" on those OSes and applied it without checking compatibility first. --*sigh* Isn't this, like, Programming 101 when writing updates, let alone auto-updates?

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Anyway, thanks to everyone at Basilisk for keeping this browser compatible with inter-era MacOS (I know it works in El Capitan, haven't checker for earlier, though it would be nice if it ran in Lion too, as that's the latest OS supported by the white-polycarbonate core-2 iMac line.)

[Moonchild]

--*sigh* Isn't this, like, Programming 101 when writing updates, let alone auto-updates?

Absolutely.
They could learn something from me regarding automatic updates.

[Basilisk-Dev]

Anyway, thanks to everyone at Basilisk for keeping this browser compatible with inter-era MacOS (I know it works in El Capitan, haven't checker for earlier, though it would be nice if it ran in Lion too, as that's the latest OS supported by the white-polycarbonate core-2 iMac line.)

It should run on everything from Lion to the current release on both x86_64 and Apple Silicon/ARM64. I haven't verified this though, the only Apple hardware I own is my current laptop which is an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro and some old PowerPC iBooks/PowerBooks.

[frostknight]

I haven't had any problems so far using Chromium-Legacy, Floorp, or Waterfox. Enabling developer-mode in a chrome browser to load AdNauseum is another option Google would rather everyone never learned about.

Either someone keeps updating ublock origin to add new features when needed, or someone makes a legacy fork of AdNauseum for basilisk-browser and other uxp web browsers. I know Moonchild isn't fond of that one, but honestly, I would like a decent adblocker that is continually worked on one way or the other.

With one caveat, adding food features and not anti-features.

IE, good things being added.

[back2themoon]

...or someone makes a legacy fork of AdNauseum

Not sure if "making a legacy fork" is possible, as described. This probably involves a platform conversion i.e. a (complete?) rewrite. Certainly not a fork... right?

[andyprough]

Off-topic:

With one caveat, adding food features and not anti-features.

What kind of food features would you like with your ad blocking this evening, monsieur? Fancy a plate of tender escargot, sauteed in a light, buttery truffle sauce?

[frostknight]

Off-topic:

With one caveat, adding food features and not anti-features.

What kind of food features would you like with your ad blocking this evening, monsieur? Fancy a plate of tender escargot, sauteed in a light, buttery truffle sauce?

Seems I wrote this wrong... I meant good features.

[frostknight]

...or someone makes a legacy fork of AdNauseum

Not sure if "making a legacy fork" is possible, as described. This probably involves a platform conversion i.e. a (complete?) rewrite. Certainly not a fork... right?

They actually have an old version of the fork that existed in 2018 or so... if I remember correctly.

This one to be precise:

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/releases?page=9

Seems its further back than 2018

I talked to him and he said if someone was willing to maintain a legacy fork, he would be willing to make a link to the fork for people who used XUL.

He himself however has no interest in working on it due to what happened prior it seems.