SFGate.com Video Popups
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@NichoUnited said in SFGate.com Video Popups:
If you left the PrivateDNS customized, will see in few days and if after a restart still happens.
Will give it a try!
It works quite nice since blocks ads everywhere.
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@Gwen-Dragon said in SFGate.com Video Popups:
@ImaginaryFreedom said in SFGate.com Video Popups:
Most likely one can achieve it using one or more of uBlock origin, uMatrix, Stylish rules (userstyles.org) or greasemonkey/tampermonkey scripts.
I disagree, such extensions do not work with Vivaldi Android.
Well if they don't, they should, because there are a vast number of ultra-annoying website design characteristics these days that need to be tamed by such things at times. FYI: I use uBlock Origin on Vivaldi so I will have to disagree that it "doesn't work". It works just fine in my limited experience so far. (Limited because Vivaldi is not yet my default browser.)
I cannot understand how SFgate in particular doesn't drive everyone away with their insane video popups that keep popping up, over and over, on every new page you load. Mostly with completely pointless and useless content. (To me, anyway)
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On Android, apart from Vivaldi's Ad and tracking blockers, I still use Blokada and use Quad9 DNS. I don't see Pop ups on this site
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@Catweazle said in SFGate.com Video Popups:
On Android, apart from Vivaldi's Ad and tracking blockers, I still use Blokada and use Quad9 DNS. I don't see Pop ups on this site
Those are useful ideas but in the case of Blokada (which is an Android-specific solution) I don't want to preclude the use of a VPN because I'm using a content-blocker that masquerades as a VPN.
I normally use an adblocker on all my browsers either mobile or desktop (or from a system/network level), and am very selective about what JS I allow to run on a page. (Default: none)
But the problem with SFgate is that if you don't enable a lot of their JS a lot of the content goes missing, and my adblocker at present doesn't block those SFgate video popups, presumably because they aren't technically "ads".
I'm quite sure I could devise a rule for uBlock Origin to block them, I just haven't been strongly-enough motivated to research it yet beyond the few minutes I spent on it. (I wasn't the OP here, just threw in my 2-cents-worth about those annoying popups.)
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@ImaginaryFreedom , in Vivaldi PC I have added the uBO urls in the adblocker list, apart I use Privacy Badger and from time to time Trace. VPN I use ProtonVPN free (enough for what I use it)
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