• mydude@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I don’t really trust these adblockers… Has anyone tried using Greasemonkey or any of the equivalent script environments for adblocking? I know it’s posdible, but I could not find any good scripts available? Has anyone found any good scripts on github (or other places) for this?

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      5 months ago

      Content blockers like uBlock use filter lists which list every single element that needs to be blocked across the entire web. I currently have nearly 700000 of these filters active. That is very far outside the scope of a simple script. Basically all ad blocking userscripts are site-specific and they still usually block significantly less than uBlock would on the same site. Also, userscripts are not safer than extensions.

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        5 months ago

        Firemonkey is open-source, random scripts can easily be inspected. I know performance probably will suck, but I know the code being run don’t monitor me. Can you say the same for uBlock?