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Slightly unrelated, I clicked the link and saw this: http://i.imgur.com/OpbdFfs.png

Apparently this is done by the uBlock Origin's own "uBlock Filters"[1][2] with this reason:

    # http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/anatomy-of-sourceforge-gimp-controversy
    # https://blog.l0cal.com/2015/06/02/what-happened-to-sourceforge/
    # Using `other` will cause the whole site to be blocked through strict blocking,
    # yet the site will render properly if a user still decide to go ahead.
    ||sourceforge.net^$other

I'm a little bit unsure whether this is a good thing or not. But personally, given SourceForge's recent behavior, I'm kinda happy that uBlock Origin did this (as SourceForge have clearly stepped into the ranks of malware-spreading sites).

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/ed130afc6f3a70e2c2a68...

[2]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/c4e82357efaf18bac3f...

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Interesting, I normally use hosts files to block ads and tracking scripts but this ability to bypass on an as-needed basis makes this (if the CPU/memory usage is not an issue) look much better. When I get some time I'm going to have to try out uBlock. Thanks for letting me know this exists.

Did you happen to turn on strict blocking behavior? I'm using ubo in Firefox with strict blocking off, and I'm not having any issues.

EDIT: Just tested strict blocking on my install and nothing prevents the link from displaying. I wonder what is different in my version.

I don't think so. I'm using the default settings. The filter come from the default uBlock filters‎ (the very recently-updated one, as it was added yesterday.)

I went into the extension's settings and forced a filter update. That did it. It's such a recent addition, that it probably hasn't had time to auto update itself yet. I actually just installed it too, which means that it is _not_ using the latest filters on a first install.

I've been using Adblock Edge, but it's been discontinued in favor of uBlock.

https://bitbucket.org/adstomper/adblockedge

I love it. If I installed an uBlock on, say, my grandparent's computer to try to prevent them from getting malware, I would be happy with it blocking SourceForge.

I ran into that a few days ago and I was mildly annoyed. I didn't install uBlock to protect me from malware, I installed it to remove ads on pages that abuse my eyeballs with them. This just makes me wonder what else they'll do that goes outside the original scope of the software.

Disabling it was easy enough so I'm not too mad about it, but I still don't like it.

Deciding to completely censor (edit: in practice, since few users are likely to dare/bother to skip warnings) legitimate (although unethical) websites seems sketchy. What happens when the uBlock maintainers decide that Facebook/Google/etc goes too far with their ethics - will they block that?

What? You have complete control over which lists of filters to use.

My understanding is that this is the default though? How many people stray from the default.

uBlock has a lot of external lists as default. I don't think uBlock team maintains the lists, and it just makes sense to include lists created by others. If you made such extension how would you be sure the lists included by default works as intended if you are not going to maintain the lists?

I have today installed uBlock and it didn't block the whole page by default.

> completely censor

Hyperbole.

This merely acts as a warning. Notice the buttons at the bottom to disable the blocking temporarily or permanently.

Sure, and a number of anti-viruses allow you to ignore their warnings, but I'd bet the majority of users will trust their software to not steer them wrong

I don't use an ad blocker to be warned about unethical websites, I use it to block ads.

Then perhaps you should try a different ad blocker.

uBlock doesn't call itself an ad blocker, but a blocker. Also, checking the default block lists and/or removing some is the first thing I do after installing a new one. If that sounds like to much work, stick with the defaults and click the humongous "disable blocking permanently" button. Not sure what all the fuss is about.

Yup, I was looking at an open source recommendation engine and went to read their wiki when I discovered it was all hosted on sourceforge. Nope. I'll write my own, thank you very much!

We need to get https://sourceforge.net/p/predef/wiki/Home/ mirrored off-SourceForge pronto. It's such a great C resource and SF doesn't deserve it.

I was a little annoyed at ubo when I read the earlier article about it doing exactly this.

But this action made me install ubo. Two minutes ago.

also unrelated, but I just installed ublock origin and tried http://dictionary.reference.com/ and it doesn't display correctly ... maybe I'll switch back to adblock-plus

Using the same filter lists in uBlock and ABP will results in the same blocking behavior: It's all in the filter lists.

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