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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by mancerayder »

Please don't bite me -- question for this group, where "Firefox" is going back and forth as a topic.

Isn't Brave okay?

There's something toxic about Brave I'm not getting; I can tell you it's incredibly effective as a tool to block ads, scripts, and tracking. What am I missing? It's tracking me? The project owners are mean? There's something nefarious in the codebase? I have firefox and Brave, and both are 'OK', and better than Chrome or Edge which I only use for work. In the past I was told after being downvoted for mentioning Brave that the founder is controversial. Is that it?

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by mancerayder »

Dwedit wrote: post #69
anaisbetts wrote: post #7

Welp, the biggest reason that I use Edge just got thrown out, time to switch to Firefox.

Until 2023, Edge was sending every URL you visited to bingapis.com. Microsoft's current privacy statement also says "Depending on your settings, this browsing history is sent to Microsoft"

Sent to MS is one thing - OneDrive/sync/etc. Used by MS and processed for nefarious purposes is another. Does it say that it 'may' be used for telemetry purposes?

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by mancerayder »

massysett wrote: post #14
poulpy123 wrote: post #4

I honestly don't know how people do without ad blockers. Even with being ok with ads, they are so overwhelming that I could not use internet without blocking them

I don’t use adblockers. If a site has too many ads to be usable, I don’t visit it.

>I don’t use adblockers. If a site has too many ads to be usable, I don’t visit it.

Excuse me. I take it you don't read any mainstream news (NYT, Bloomberg, WSJ, WSP, etc etc).

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by mancerayder »

WhyIsItAlwaysHN wrote: post #19
massysett wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t use adblockers. If a site has too many ads to be usable, I don’t visit it.

So no youtube?

If you pay for YouTube, there are no ads. [edit] except for those ones that podcasters add in the middle. "[15 minutes in] Alright, now is a great time to tell you about my sponsor tell you about my sponsor!", and you skip ahead, and it shows the product nonetheless.

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by paxys »

KetoManx64 wrote: post #126
VCFundedGenYer wrote: post #111

This is why we all need to rally around Firefox (or Librewolf, or Waterfox, or whatever fork you prefer) and make sure that sacred goose is never tampered with.

Ladybird is the future. Firefox is a joke at this point

Why is Firefox a joke?

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by supermatou »

KronisLV wrote: post #107

For what it's worth, I daily drive Edge on my Windows machine and it's an okay browser, haven't had a reason to install Chrome in ages (though did run Firefox for a while due to liking their dev tools better, it's still on my MacBook cause I like the UI more than Safari). Even when my Intel Arc B580 has its drivers freeze the browser, I can just kill the GPU rendering process and it picks back up with no data loss, w…

>I can just kill the GPU rendering process

>and it picks back up with no data loss,

>whereas with Firefox I had to restart the whole thing

about:processes > kill the GPU process without having to restart Firefox.

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by massysett »

Marsymars wrote: post #131
massysett wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you could not consume the content.

The problem I run into is e.g. if I need to replace the the steering wheel cruise control buttons in my car, a random youtuber doing that is the only reasonable option getting instructions on that, which isn't something a youtube subscription scales to.

So random youtuber gave you something of value - something that saved you hundreds of dollars from not having to get a professional repair - yet you have something against random YouTuber getting paid?

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by joquarky »

MarkWayneNewton wrote: post #45

If this thread is indicative of the sort of browser discourse in it's no wonder Google won. Nerds used to know how to computer, is what i'm saying.

This industry doesn't really hire nerds anymore.

HR prefers brogrammers who can fast talk.

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