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Andreas Backx@andreasbackx · Co-founder Lunchbreak
Why would we pay $5 for something that uBlock gives us for free and arguably better because it has been in development longer?
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Preshit Deorukhkar@preshit · Builds stuff & Edits Text @ iXyr Media
@andreasbackx uBlock and other apps do content filtering, meaning they read the contents of whatever page your browser is loading and then "hide" the elements it thinks are ads. On the other hand, 1Blocker uses the native content blocking technology and/or functionality that's built into WebKit, which means it blocks content _before_ it is downloaded or rend… See more
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Andreas Backx@andreasbackx · Co-founder Lunchbreak
@preshit Interesting, are there any statistics that would confirm this?
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Eon@eonpilot · iOS dev @ github.com/eonist
@preshit @andreasbackx So adblock-blockers won't be able to detect it? Can I finally read wired.com articles again?
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Andreas Backx@andreasbackx · Co-founder Lunchbreak
@eonpilot @preshit Interested in this too. If this were true, would it be hard for adblock detectors to detect this in the future?
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$now@chevysnow100 · student
@andreasbackx preach
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Agustín Covarrubias@agucova · Security Analist
@preshit @andreasbackx I don't agree with that. uBlock blocks connections before they happen, not elements. And it's significally faster and has a lot more rules.
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Eon@eonpilot · iOS dev @ github.com/eonist
@andreasbackx @preshit I predict it will be an ongoing war between adblockers and anti-addblockers. Now all we need is stealth adblockers....which 1blocker is? I can read wired.com articles ad free on my iphone with 1blocker installed, but not on my mac with a vanilla adblocker.
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Preshit Deorukhkar@preshit · Builds stuff & Edits Text @ iXyr Media
@agucova Actually, uBlock does both. It uses ABP filters that hide elements and its own rules block elements. 1Blocker on the other hand is 100% blocking.
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