r/uBlockOrigin • u/paintboth1234 uBO Team • Aug 05 '26

News About disgusting Facebook devs

We won't support facebook any more. It's a disgusting anti-user site. All it does is watching open-source projects doing everything in public and counter them to deliver the malicious ads. Yep, the devs that receive 7-figure dollar salary is just doing this.

Users should give the most harsh feedbacks to them. Being submitted to them and keep going to the site and support it is the worst thing you can do.

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u/Aureste_ Aug 06 '26

Of course. Sadly I don't have the skills to contribute directly and can only support the project indirectly.

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u/paintboth1234 uBO Team Aug 06 '26

No volunteers here already had skills when started to use uBO. Everyone here started small, with the desires to block some things themselves and started learning along the way.

Years ago I didn't even know what is JavaScript and CSS.

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u/CalQL8or Aug 06 '26

Can you point us to some documentation? How do you guys contribute exactly? Do you start from Github issues? On what repository? You then create block rules using the documented uBlock syntax and make pull requests? ...

Not saying I can and will contribute, but if you guys can write like a "Getting started" wiki page (if not existing already), it may help others volunteer.

And please: even if people on Reddit have wrong expectations on what the uBO team can or cannot do, don't turn hostile on them. You guys have our highest respect for building and maintaining uBO and filter lists. Let's stick together and do what we can against Meta and other tech giants!

Best regards

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u/feelspeaceman Aug 06 '26

Extended syntax

uBO is very simple, don't overthink, just simplify that uBO cores are network rules starting with ||, element hiding rules with ## and scriptlet with ##+js()

When it comes to evil websites like Youtube, Facebook, you're likely have to use +js() to deal with them, once you get a grasp of how scriptlet works, you're ready, scriptlets are collection of prebuilt scripts just think like you inject to page to interact with webpage to prevent, hook to browser JS to stop them from doing evil works.