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Congrats! Here's something that might help others. On Whatsapp groups some users can become obnoxious, and one can fall into the…",{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"30057566","only4here","This is a great idea, I like that you can generate lists for DuckDuckGo as well. It'd be cool to also see lists for SearX, too. I see a lot of these list websites online but this…",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"30065460","happybuy","This is a great idea and is something similar to what I was thinking of implementing in the ad blocker that I develop. Some suggested improvements would be to actually use domain…",{"value":90,"source":75,"evidence":91},"Accessible site with easy-to-follow filter setup",[92,96],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"30060122","danShumway","I really like the idea, I'm less enthused about the account tie-in, even though I do get why it exists. I'm not sure off the top of my head what a better solution would even be.…",{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"30066085","cuham_1754","Thank you so much for your work, a very easy to use interface! Hopefully you will add Facebook or Twitter post blocking in future updates!",[101,113],{"value":102,"source":75,"evidence":103},"Account and GitHub PR contribution flow adds friction and privacy concerns",[104,108,112],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"30064361","contravariant","If you're going to bother with accounts it's a bit annoying that you can't just contribute directly from your account. Having to create a pull request is slightly annoying. And…",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"30065633","klntsky","Cool. However, contributions via PRs are a bit more complicated than it needs to be.",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":114,"source":75,"evidence":115},"Missing screenshots of what each option blocks",[116],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"30060764","jaredlt","It would be great to see screenshots of what each option will block. Although many are obvious, some are less clear.",[121,125,133],{"value":122,"source":75,"evidence":123},"Add SearX support",[124],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},{"value":126,"source":75,"evidence":127},"Add Facebook or Twitter post blocking",[128,129],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"30060350","lordnacho","Still waiting for one that blocks FB ads. I gather Meta spends a lot of effort to make it hard though, contrary to most sites I've come across. Makes sense given their business…",{"value":134,"source":75,"evidence":135},"Suggest or rate filters per website",[136,137],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"30096218","Daneel_","I'd love a way to suggest ideas. For example, the 'clean up google search result' filters don't include \"People also search for\", which can be removed with: google.*##[id^=\"eob_\"]",[142],{"value":143,"source":75,"evidence":144},"Is there a way to use uBlock Origin on Safari for iPhone or Mac",[145],{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"30062254","jiriro","Is there a way to use uBlock Origin in Safari on iPhone\u002FMac?",[150,157,164],{"value":151,"source":75,"evidence":152},"FBPurity for Facebook ad filtering",[153],{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"30063577","dsr_","FBPurity (.com) seems to spend most of its time on that case. Works pretty well for months at a time, then FB changes something, and a new FBP update comes through a few days…",{"value":158,"source":75,"evidence":159},"AdGuard Annoyances blocklist",[160],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"30059982","bspammer","You might be interested in the Adguard Annoyances [1][2] blocklist which is easily added to uBlock Origin, just by ticking a checkbox in the \"Filter lists\" tab of the settings.…",{"value":165,"source":75,"evidence":166},"iorate uBlacklist",[167],{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"30059697","DavideNL","Reminds me of https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fiorate\u002Fublacklist Hopefully you will add the startpage.com search engine (has same results as google) too :)",{"comments":31,"answered":40,"key":172},[173,176,179],{"id":174,"text":175},"30064933","That's the kind of filters I started this project for! I would not accept this template in the project though, as I am not willing to endorse usage of Facebook\u002FMeta's websites.…",{"id":177,"text":178},"30058768","Agreed! I have lots of them in my list, using https:\u002F\u002Fletsblock.it\u002Ffilters\u002Fsearch-results as a template. 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