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5 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
These instances of wrongdoings have been made public 11 years ago by Wikileaks
I have this mental image of a large dark canvas representing all the wrongdoings still not brought to light with a few pixels representing the light shone on the instances reported in this documentary Image
Excerpt, @johnpilger: "You must remember that the attack on Iraq -- although presented as a war -- was not a war, it was so one-sided, and it became an attack on the civilian population"
The same documentary on Youtube if you have issue playing it with the other link:

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More from @gorhill

7 Apr
Of interest to advanced users.

uBlock Origin can function as a fully-fledged script blocker in default-deny mode:

1) Check "Disable JavaScript" in Settings pane
2) Enable "Medium mode"

github.com/gorhill/uBlock… ImageImage
Result when visiting a typical webpage (note the "domains connected" figure, and the pluses in overview pane in the screenshots).

Only passive content resources allowed, such as images, CSS, etc. Image
Result when turning off the no-scripting switch.

This will allow only 1st-party JavaScript to execute. Image
Read 11 tweets
31 Jul 20
Too often I hear misinformed statements regarding JS-based content blockers -- worse when made in an authoritative manner.

So here I benchmark uBO's static filtering engine (responsible for enforcing EasyList et al.) with over 820K network filters.
This is the results using the built-in benchmark:
github.com/gorhill/uBlock… (you can try it for yourself).

I get ~11µs/request on average, which is no different than if I had benchmarked with just the default filter lists.
This is uBO's memory footprint with the over 820K network filters after visiting the 30 sites on the front page of HN, and after closing the tabs and leaving the browser idle for a minute.
Read 7 tweets
24 Jun 20
An article concerning "Acceptable Ads" product from @ResPrivacy:

My thoughts regarding some parts of the article.
We do not actually know whether the several "Acceptable Ads" products are completely independent of each other:

Adblock Plus → Eyeo
Adblock Browser → Eyeo
Crystal → Eyeo
AdBlock → BetaFish
AdBlock Premium → Betafish
uBlock (not uBO) → Betafish
Note that the same year (2015) BetaFish (owner of AdBlock) was sold to an anonymous buyer, a new investment item, 13.466K EUR (converted from USD), was declared on Eyeo's balance sheet -- described as "shares in affiliate companies".
Read 9 tweets
13 Jun 19
"Since Google's stated goal is to make ad blockers safer, The Register asked Google whether any ad blockers have actually abused webRequest. We've not heard back."

theregister.co.uk/2019/06/13/goo…
The abuse I've seen repeatedly is not of webRequest API: unethical blockers ripping the code base of legitimate blockers, but with an added permission which allows execution of remote code in extension context.

Just to show how easy it is to stumble onto these, I found another one within seconds (I believe this one uses code base of AdBlock despite "uBlocker" name).
Read 6 tweets
13 Jun 19
This changes nothing of what I said regarding uBlock Origin.

security.googleblog.com/2019/06/improv…
The "whole website" can still be seen by a passive webRequest API -- so why is "some sensitive data" even used as an argument to justify declarativeNetRequest API? Additionally, content scripts can also access sensitive data.
From uBO's perspective, a better wording is:

"Hey WebExtensions-capable browser, let me see all the network requests so that I can decide whether to cancel them according to my OWN matching algorithm, and report ALL what I see and do (and why I do it) to the user"
Read 7 tweets
30 May 19
It is not possible for uBlock Origin ("uBO") to retrofit its matching algorithm into the set-in-stone matching algorithm of the declarativeNetRequest API.
Matching algorithm logic of:

declarativeNetRequest API (Easylist-like filtering):

- if sb and not sa then block

uBO (*simplified* to not drown in details):

- if db then block
- else if not da then
- if sbb or (sb and not sa) then block
Also, I have this long-term goal of having a user's static filters take precedence over 3rd-party static filters:

- if db then block
- else if not da then
- if usbb or (usb and not usa) then block
- else if not usa and (sbb or (sb and not sa)) then block
Read 9 tweets

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