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Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?

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Re: Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?

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Post by oefrha »

drimphgol wrote: post #9

Seems like a ublock origin bug. Proposed solution here: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/t2n77i/gmail_...

It's an EasyPrivacy bug? That list is developed with ridiculously cavalier attitude. A few months ago they blocked workers.dev wholesale[1], that is, the entirety of Cloudflare Workers, for some sort of third party request on torrentfreak.com. I was flooded with user reports that day, and several days afterwards thanks to list caching. I was shocked that people who seemingly have no idea of public suffixes are tasked with blocking domains.

[1] https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/e4b0216bd18bacf5...

Re: Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?

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Post by hammyhavoc »

globalproctd wrote: post #11
johndfsgdgdfg wrote: post #10

This is an wake-up call for everyone to migrate to other email service providers. Google only cares about invading our privacy, showing ads and making money. Thre's no reason to use products from a company like that.

Yeah, how dare those pesky businesses exist and try to make money.

I wish Gmail's web app was FOSS. Only use it as an interface for External Accounts.

Re: Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?

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Post by 0xdeadb00f »

kornhole wrote: post #34

I suggest you practice browser isolation and use chrome only for Google logged in services without ublock. Use other private browsers for other stuff with ublock (Librewolf or brave).

Good advice. What I usually do is also create a few chrome profiles. One for Discord, one for Gmail, one for Shopping, etc.

Firefox is also great for this kind of thing with custom container tabs.

Re: Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?

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Post by tadfisher »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #35
pabs3 wrote: post #6

Might be a good idea to switch to an IMAP client instead?

What's a decent IMAP client that supports labels properly?

I use notmuch[1] with lieer[2]. Notmuch maintains a tags database with full-text search indexing for a set of maildirs, and Lieer uses the GMail API to synchronize messages with a maildir and labels with notmuch tags. There are lots of notmuch frontends available, but I use the built-in Emacs frontend.

[1]: https://notmuchmail.org/

[2]: https://github.com/gauteh/lieer

Re: Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?

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Post by tadfisher »

m-p-3 wrote: post #20
globalproctd wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, how dare those pesky businesses exist and try to make money.

It would be nice to have an add-on in Google One to turn off the ads for a monthly price.

I believe Workspace is tracking-free? At least their privacy policy says they do not use Workspace data for advertising.

Re: Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?

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Post by mech422 »

0xdeadb00f wrote: post #37
kornhole wrote: post #34

I suggest you practice browser isolation and use chrome only for Google logged in services without ublock. Use other private browsers for other stuff with ublock (Librewolf or brave).

Good advice. What I usually do is also create a few chrome profiles. One for Discord, one for Gmail, one for Shopping, etc. Firefox is also great for this kind of thing with custom container tabs.

I use full on custom profiles for stuff like banking, shopping, etc... and containers within the profiles to separate amazon from walmart, etc.

edit: I probably should have mentioned, this is on Firefox

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