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A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by Hamuko »

scarface74 wrote: post #7
vezycash wrote: post #3

Monopoly

For Windows there is Firefox, and IE Edge. For the Mac their are both of those plus Safari. Not to mention Chromium based browsers.

Google Search can't be a monopoly as Bing exists.

Hey guys, remember Bing?

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by outside1234 »

Edge on Chromium is a great browser! Been using it for three months now and am never going back.

Also, while I am here, you should all be using a Pi Hole instead of uBlock Origin anyway. Much less detectable by sites, covers all of your devices...

Seriously, spend the 1 hour it takes to set up the Pi Hole - you won’t regret it.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by Causality1 »

radicalbyte wrote: post #6

It's time to switch to Firefox as my main web browser. It's faster and generally more efficient than Chrome plus it has the most important extensions. The most surprising thing is that the Android version of Firefox is excellent. So good that I switched from Chrome a few months ago when this expected news first dropped. No ads on mobile is awesome.

Only downside to Firefox mobile is its crummy tab management. Especially when browsing in landscape mode it takes an incredibly long swipe to dismiss a tab. I don't think I go a week without yelling "oh my God, go away!" at my phone after failing to close a tab after multiple tries.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by rvnx »

2ion wrote: post #13

No surprise; after the manifest v3 discussion, this development was to be expected and only a matter of time.

One of the main "advantages" (for Google) of manifest v3, is that there is, not only a blacklist, but also a whitelist of domains bundled with Google Chrome. So the logic is to restrict adblockers, to use the internal Chrome adblock so Google can decide what ads are acceptable or not.

An independent study shows that YouTube ads and Search Ads are the ones that the users enjoy the most and wouldn't want to block ;)

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by ignoramous »

If you have to use Chromium, at this point it is clear that Brave is a better Chromium than Chrome [0][1] despite its BAT shenanigans. The UX is super nice, and adblocking just works without having to install any extensions. Hopefully Brave doesn't buy into the whole PrivacySandbox thing Google proposed [2].

For everything else, Firefox should be the default [3][4].

It'd be great if Firefox bundles a content blocker like uBlockOrigin [5] in its distributions and introduces First-Party Isolation [6]. DoH is a welcome addition, esp since it can be used with AdGuard DNS [7] for another layer of content blocking. Firefox Private Network [8] is yet another step in the right direction, as are the anti-fingerprinting techniques [9] it has been upstreaming from the Tor Browser. With WASM around the corner, it'd be wonderful when native apps could be run from within a privacy-friendly sandbox like Firefox. Imagine using WhatsApp/Instagram on Android within Firefox with content blockers...

Next up: Strike partnerships with Android OEMs and bundle the browser as default.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18052923

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19263649

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767891

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20052623

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361168

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20874006

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783339

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18788410

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20927832

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20054831

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