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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
#82Edge 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.
Pi Hole is a very poor substitute for uBlock origin, it doesn't block Youtube or Twitch ads for example or do anything dynamic. Plus it's full of false positives since DNS rules can be very coarse or change continuously. Not to mention the trouble you have to go to when sites break due to that coarseness or that in many cases it degrades functionality that's not immediately obvious. uBlock origin is the king of adblo…
You make good points but it sounds very silly to claim DNS adblocking is a waste of resources. One, to each his own. Two, no false positives in our home and 10%-15% of DNS queries blocked is definitely not the "wrong solution" for me and many, many others. Why trivialize legitimate use cases to make your point.
Furthermore, you can't install ublock origin on IoT devices and smart TV's so your claim of "waste of resources" is even more questionable.
Better still, why not both pihole and ublock origin?
Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't mean that Chrome isn't a monopoly, with their current marketshare, if Chrome introduces a new feature or changes how some feature works, all competitors have no choice but to implement that change or websites stop working.
That's not really how it worked pre-2010 when IE had the monopoly. And for all of Chrome (and Google's) faults, it does seem to be reasonably standards- compliant and even open to experimentation. If they want to spend some of their piles of cash developing new features that other browsers can then adopt and then standardise, I don't see the problem. If developers choose to use Chrome-only features and their pages br…
When IE had a monopoly it was bad because Microsoft made a shitty webbrowser and everyone built websites for IE.
Even today I have devices which are "best viewed on IE6", thanks to modern browsers they still tend to work somewhat.
Chrome will not be bad because it's a shitty browser, it'll be bad because Google can force features into standards and essentially do what they want with no recourse.
It's not the developers fault directly but they inherently support an abusive vendor-user relationship.
Everyone who doesn't see that is just a Google-apologist.
Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#84It'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.
Click on three dots close all tabs. You can also close just all private tabs.
It also tends to unload unused tabs and perform pretty well with ridiculous amounts of tabs so if you forget to bother it won't perform much worse.
Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
For Windows there is Firefox, and IE Edge. For the Mac their are both of those plus Safari. Not to mention Chromium based browsers.
Doesn't mean that Chrome isn't a monopoly, with their current marketshare, if Chrome introduces a new feature or changes how some feature works, all competitors have no choice but to implement that change or websites stop working.
Right, because Apple is going to change how Safari works on iOS because of a change that Google makes....
And “monopoly” has a legal definition it isn’t defined by random HN posters every week.
Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#86It'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.
Unfortunately the Android version of Firefox is unusably crashy on my phone (moto z play) and noticeably slower. I gave it a hard try, but it just wasn't workable. Still using Firefox on all desktop/laptop devices, though.
Have you tried Firefox Preview? It’s a new, revamped version of Firefox for Android.
Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#87If 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…
Why would Firefox block Google ads or Google trackers by default ?
It doesn't make sense, it's their almost only source of revenue (>500 million of USD).
Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#88Have been using Firefox Nightly for few weeks as only browser.
Rock solid.
Can recommend few extensions
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-touch-z...
Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#89It'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.
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Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#90If 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…
> It'd be great if Firefox bundles a content blocker like uBlock Origin in its distributions
No thanks. Firefox is a great web browser platform. Instead, it should focus on improving web extension apis, allowing users to build their own extensions upon it.