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Ublock origin for chrome reviews3/9/2024 ![]() * does a great of job displaying HTML messages. VM (and ancillary tools, like Personality Crisis and mairix) I've never tried Gnus for email because VM has always met my needs. I tried Gnus a couple of times for Usenet but stayed with slrn because of Emacs's lack of multithreading. I've used it to read mail for almost as long as I've used Emacs. ![]() My email client is VM, written in Emacs Lisp. I've been using Emacs for more than a quarter century, 99.9999% of the time text-only (whether Linux console, X terminal console, xterm, or SSH client) on a remote server. It's the terminal, which is why I find myself using TUI apps more and more as time goes on. >Yes, there is still a last bastion of focus, productivity and anti-distraction. Be interested in weird stuff which is too small to attract the interest of marketers and their filth. From a sociocultural standpoint, though, the best way to avoid advertising is simply to be esoteric. In other words, our modern needs are not much different from the old UNIX philosophy. What that means is we need control over which programs we can run, we need to work with programs that view/input/output primarily text, and with programs that are modular (so that if a marketer injects their filth we can run it through grep and strip the filth out). They are: general computing, text-based UI, and composability. There are specifically a few principles we need to preserve to prevent the marketers from ever getting a foothold in the terminal. Yes, there is still a last bastion of focus, productivity and anti-distraction. This extension can store an unlimited amount of client-side data.> Is there nowhere in society considered sacred enough to not litter it with advertising filth?.This extension can access your tabs and browsing activity.This extension will add a panel to the sidebar.This extension can manipulate privacy-related settings.This extension can access your data on some websites.This extension can access your data on all websites.So if ever you really do want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which were made available to use by all for free. Without the preset lists of filters, this extension is nothing. Yet, even after adding Fanboy's two extra lists, hpHosts’s Ad and tracking servers, uBlock still has a lower memory footprint than other very popular blockers out there.Īlso, be aware that selecting some of these extra lists may lead to higher likelihood of web site breakage - especially those lists which are normally used as hosts file. ![]() Of course, the more filters enabled, the higher the memory footprint. More lists are available for you to select if you wish: Out of the box, these lists of filters are loaded and enforced: ![]() ![]() It applies to the current web site only, it is not a global power button.įlexible, it's more than an "ad blocker": it can also read and create filters from hosts files. Usage: The big power button in the popup is to permanently disable/enable uBlock for the current web site. An efficient blocker: easy on memory and CPU footprint, and yet can load and enforce thousands more filters than other popular blockers out there. ![]()
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