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uBlock Origin, with CNAME uncloaking is the most powerful ad/tracker blocking tool. Browsing Internet without it is often time a scary experience.

It does block our [Wide Angle Analytics](https://wideangle.co/documentation/track-with-custom-domain) tracker about which we are open about.

And ... we are not against. Every user should have a right to self determination and control when browsing the Internet. Our tracker is not invasive. It does not spy on users across site. We do not facilitate user profiling and personalized Ads. So maybe we should be against? But we are not.

It is your browser. It is your device.

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This went from props to a sales pitch fast

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Yeah, I hate it when people believe in the work they’re doing and are eager to talk about it.

Just the worst.

You genuinely believe that this guy is passionate about his tracking software and is just eager to share?

Yes, absolutely.

Is money a factor? Yes. Do you need passion to make money when building a startup? Yes.

Part of me thinks this would be a better place if everyone was prohibited from talking about themselves and their projects. Let the braggarts chest-thump on Product Hunt, that place is already a wasteland

It's like everything tech has to be a dog and pony show nowadays.

Eh, I hear it, but I think it’s rare enough and so strongly filtered (/new is lousy with the corpses of the self submitted articles), it seems to be fine for now.

I'd upvote more than once if I could! If every tracking / ad provider would like that the internet would be a better place!

Just FYI, the problem with analytics providers like yourself is that even if you don't explicitly intend to spy, you're still collecting a lot of information in a single spot that could allow someone to track the user across websites if it were to leak or be compelled (by law or force - enemy invasion like in Ukraine) to share it.

Is AdBlockPro needed with uBlock or does uBlock do everything ABP does and more?

>Is AdBlockPro needed with uBlock

Nope

>does uBlock do everything ABP does and more?

Yep

Ditch adblock pro and use ublock Origin (origin!), you will only be getting more wins and not losing anything. I suggest reading up on the various lists to enable outside of the default ones that are enabled. Don't turn them all on though, that is a LOT of "stuff" to block, even on modern machines and will noticeably slow down your page load.

AdBlockPro has built in allowlists for some advertisers (might be paid on the advertisers side?) and Ublock does not. And from I remember the developer of Ublock might have originally also been involved in AdblockPro and then left? I could be wrong

My experience with uBlock or in fact any Ad Blocker have been suboptimal. It sometimes uses a lot of CPU resources in places I dot understand and couldn't be bothered to figure out why.

In the end I just switch to NextDNS.

NextDNS and uBO are complimentary.

Agreed

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