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Updated Counterarguments (markdown)

Raymond Hill 2014-08-23 06:55:51 -07:00
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@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ Doing more with less is a virtue in software. For users of µBlock, this means:
Memory and CPU cycles are finite resources. A sure way for a developer to **not** be hired when being interviewed is to dismiss efficiency work because "memory is plentiful" or "CPU nowadays are fast enough". Memory and CPU cycles are finite resources. A sure way for a developer to **not** be hired when being interviewed is to dismiss efficiency work because "memory is plentiful" or "CPU nowadays are fast enough".
#### Just use a hosts file
You can't un-break web pages with [hosts file](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)) at OS level.
µBlock supports the parsing/enforcing of hosts files, and ships with a couple of them. One of them, _"Peter Lowe’s Ad server list"_ is enabled out of the box.
This way it is possible to un-break web sites: a user can just disable µBlock for the web site which breaks, or an exception filter can be created to counter the blocking of a specific hostname appearing in a hosts file. Many of the exception filters in [_"µBlock filters"_](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/assets/ublock/filters.txt) are actually exception filters to counter entries in the hosts files shipped with µBlock.
#### µBlock is a fork of Adblock Plus code #### µBlock is a fork of Adblock Plus code
No. Code is wholly original, it was written from scratch. There are a very few places I borrowed code from elsewhere, and this is clearly identified. For example, for the element picker, I [embedded](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/js/element-picker.js#L27) [CSS.escape](http://mths.be/cssescape) from Mathias Bynens. No. Code is wholly original, it was written from scratch. There are a very few places I borrowed code from elsewhere, and this is clearly identified. For example, for the element picker, I [embedded](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/js/element-picker.js#L27) [CSS.escape](http://mths.be/cssescape) from Mathias Bynens.