I've found it to happen much more frequently than that, unfortunately. Usually it's because the modal is two DOM elements - a backdrop, that fades out the rest of the content and sits on top of it/prevents interaction; and the actual consent modal. Websites then use various mechanisms to prevent scrolling. uBlock is often only removing the actual dialog, so you end up with a page you can't scroll up or down and can't interact with.
If you're going to turn the filters on, it's worth being aware of this because it's far from flawless.
This looks very cool, some immediate thoughts though:
- "TiXL is an open source software to create realtime motion graphics" - pedantry, but software is an uncountable noun. You cannot have a software.
- It wasn't immediately clear to me from the homepage that it's Windows-only. Appreciate it appears to behave under WINE, but it'd be good to make clearer.
The animation on their website looks nice, I'm curious to try it. But that's a good point about needing WINE wrapper on Linux and Mac. Apparently they're working on a native port.
I’ve heard many European non-native English speakers say “a software”, and I see it as a charming reflection of their native languages, where presumably “software” is a countable noun. I think that’s what’s going on here.
Plenty of UK banks that don't require this, and whose apps will also work on a rooted device. Monzo will display a warning that sets out the fact there's an increased risk, and then lets you be an adult and choose to continue to use the app if that's what you want to do.
The best part is that the Current Account Switching Service makes it very easy to make the jump from a legacy bank like HSBC.
This was not my lived experience. I wanted to use the most common banks and most would not let me use it.
Chip contacted me at one point via their live assistant randomly without my doing and told me to stop using the app because they would soon be enforcing that rooted devices would no longer work. I continued to use the app rooted and nothing came of it.
Barclaycard, Nationwide and others don't let you use the app or require some circumvention of their detection to allow access.
Sure there are plenty of other apps, but those apps and banks have a worse product I found.
They've all started cracking down, in the past year the Barclays and Lloyds app have broken on my phone.
TSB still works for now, but even for a bank they're technologically incompetent so I'm going to just assume they're behind the curve rather than willingly not using SafetyNet.
The only one I would bank on still working in the future is Monzo, since, like you say, they detect it and just give you scary warning and let you continue.
Barclays have always played silly games with this stuff, they used to fund a whole team whose job it was to waste time on security theatre (this was nearly ten years ago).
I thought this initially too, but there's a comment on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2001758#c5 that suggests a belief it doesn't affect Firefox at all. So I don't know if the surface for these is particularly obscure such that browsers are insulated?
On the contrary, I would say this is increasingly unusual nowadays. There are print restrictions on e.g. iStock content, but there's no attempt to "ration" the number of visitors that see a stock photo at a specific price point.
It's something that's generally put me off from licensing paid fonts - despite the work that has gone into them, because you're almost signing a blank cheque and it's not easy to know how many visitors are scraping content for LLMs.
I'm convinced the people who write status pages are incapable of escaping the phrasing "Some users may be experiencing problems". Too much attempting to save face by PR types, instead of just being transparent with information (… which is what would actually save face…)
And that's if you get a status page update at all.
See the docs[1] where it mentions that 10 is supported, but not available in the built-in Ubuntu feed. It however is/should become available in the backports feed.
To make matters even more interesting the GitHub / Azure DevOps CI agent image Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't provide .NET 9, whereas 22.04 does[2]. .NET 10 appears to become available in both though[3].
Microsoft's Ubuntu image seems to be ready. I guess I could see a reason to use regular Ubuntu 24 and then install dotnet manually, but these images have served us well.
docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:10.0 - Refers to Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat"
docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:10.0-noble - Refers to Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat"
If you're going to turn the filters on, it's worth being aware of this because it's far from flawless.