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mp3geek··on Google’s native ad blocker for Chrome shows up in Android developer build
Is there a list we can see/review that Chrome uses?
mp3geek··on A JavaScript browser library fails due to an adblocker blacklisting 'beacon.js'
Also the filter in question "/beacon.js" is 3 years old in Easyprivacy, to be exact "Feb 23, 2014". I could understand if it was a recent commit but its not, the onus shouldn't be on the List authors to fix it, but the site owner (yourself) to fix it.
mp3geek··on A JavaScript browser library fails due to an adblocker blacklisting 'beacon.js'
Why whitelist, when its easier to rename a file?
mp3geek··on Minimal PDF
Save page as? Note, I'm not refering to print to pdf here.
mp3geek··on Minimal PDF
Would be nice if browsers would support saving pages directly as pdf using there own pdf librarys.
mp3geek··on FreeBSD deprecates all r-cmds (rcp, rlogin, etc.)
Make a SVN commit to deprecate these commands, it also seems time to depreciate svn.
mp3geek··on Cloudflare's new Argo feature billing surprise
Could cloudflare estimate the cost of Argo, from a previous months usage?
mp3geek··on Supreme Court Sides with Consumers–Affirms Your Right to Repair Stuff
Which Judge voted against it?
mp3geek··on MathJax CDN shutting down on April 30, 2017
I thought cloudflare didn't have a data cap? I'm somewhat concerned.
mp3geek··on LA Times and ads
Not enough, using "host files" won't protect from websocket/blob/webrtc/base64 injections.
mp3geek··on LA Times and ads
Sites will use the disguise of "Native Ads" to make these links look like standard web page links, and they'll do every attempt to avoid being blocked or hidden.

Using base64 images, websocket/blob: injections, third-party scripts, natively hosting the images on the site and using also webRTC to also inject.

Its a long fight of countering/re-countering, and until website developers listen to its users these type of ads aren't acceptable.

/Fanboy from Easylist here

mp3geek··on Show HN: Chrome extension to put GitHub's header back to the way it was
Works fine as a webextension under firefox nightly
mp3geek··on Show HN: Chrome Extension to Filter HN Stories by Keyword
Loaded, but didnt show the icon in the bar.
mp3geek··on Turbo Pascal Compiler (2013)
Last update from 11 months ago, doesn't bode well
mp3geek··on Show HN: ChatSecure iOS v4.0 – OMEMO and Signal Protocol
Unless I'm looking at the wrong git repo, the Android version seems to be rather undeveloped?

[1] https://github.com/guardianproject/ChatSecureAndroid

mp3geek··on Testing LLVM
I do find it strange that such a large project isn't using a better VCS. SVN seems to be very antiquated.
mp3geek··on Chernobyl’s new sarcophagus
Do they have plans to fix whats below? "Elephants foot".
mp3geek··on WebExtensions in Firefox 52
no, its just an update on its current progress
mp3geek··on Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs
Does this show PC Gaming is booming as a result?
mp3geek··on Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison
Always see Amazon price reductions being promoted on HN, I didn't relise it's still so expensive, compared to my hetzner dedi.
mp3geek··on Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)
Not sure how much false positives this will cause, but its fixed in the Enhanced Tracking list.

https://github.com/ryanbr/fanboy-adblock/commit/2385fb0b2b28...

mp3geek··on Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)
Why does it generally annoy you?
mp3geek··on Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)
Fanboy here, fixed the site so it can load:

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/d39f815c794a89e4...

mp3geek··on Show HN: GPU-Accelerated Digit Recognition with WebGL
Might be helpful used in a Captcha-type setup
mp3geek··on FreeBSD Myths
Does FreeBSD have anything to compete with V4L/DVB ?
mp3geek··on Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its first week ever
How does the numbers stack up between the downloads on Google play vs Apple?
mp3geek··on Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s
Does it happen often where a company will disable pull access on github and to request EUA to be signed first?
mp3geek··on Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S
The main issue I find with E10s (nightly user here), is on some heavy sites which requires firefox to load on a specific tab, will often get the dreaded "swirl arrow reload" animation on other open tabs until the site is loaded.
mp3geek··on Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
See https://secure.fanboy.co.nz Enhanced Trackers and Anti-Facebook lists
mp3geek··on Blocklist of all Facebook domains
When a site adds Facebook it's using connect.facebook.* the main bulk of the list is just whitelists for Facebook users (first-party). The hosts file will break all of Facebook even if you visit it directly. The better option is to just block Facebook outside of Facebook.
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