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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 denton-scratch »

burtonator wrote: post #311
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.

Firefox is really dying compared to Chrome but I honestly think this is going to cause it to rebound. People aren't going to be happy without uBlock and Ad Block... Google has been REALLY dropping the ball in the last 2-5 years. What's a NEW Google product that you actually like (that they didn't acquire)? They literally CAN NOT build new products that people like. ... all their hardware products suck. New things lik…

"What's a NEW Google product that you actually like"

Robots that kill people? Come on, there are people that think that's cool.

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

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Post by colshrapnel »

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.

Firefox Focus is also a thing. A permanent incognito mode browser is an ideal candidate for the default browser position.

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

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Post by wipash »

tjpnz wrote: post #338
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.

I switched to Firefox for Android after several attempts by DoubleClick to infect my device with malware. Funnily enough Chrome does ship with a setting which makes this kind of hijacking a lot harder. It was off by default and hidden in an obscure menu that wasn't accessible via the UI. Enabling it for everyone would probably lose them too much ad revenue I suspect.

Could you please share what this setting is, and how to access it?

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

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Post by NelsonMinar »

burtonator wrote: post #311
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.

Firefox is really dying compared to Chrome but I honestly think this is going to cause it to rebound. People aren't going to be happy without uBlock and Ad Block... Google has been REALLY dropping the ball in the last 2-5 years. What's a NEW Google product that you actually like (that they didn't acquire)? They literally CAN NOT build new products that people like. ... all their hardware products suck. New things lik…

Not sure what you mean about Firefox dying; the software is the best it's ever been, relative to other browsers. The market numbers are still down though.

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

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Post by genghizkhan »

catalogia wrote: post #295
adrianN wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something must be weird with your machine. My mbp is from 2009 and Firefox scrolls smoothly.

It's smooth as butter on my early 2015 macbook air too. I suspect the issue is related to "retina" screens, which I don't have. (a 2009 mbp doesn't either iirc, right?)

Smooth on my mbp early 2015 as well. It's not related to Retina.

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

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Post by kettlecorn »

kvark wrote: post #334
kettlecorn wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used Firefox before Chrome and have tried to swap numerous times in the past (and have been using it for the last few weeks). Advocates for Firefox often say "Firefox is better, just try switching!" yet when people point out reasons it's not better the response is "Oh those don't matter, you're just being nitpicky!" But it's not a very gentle push back, it's forceful. In this thread someone says "I don't like how m…

Arguing and downvoting is just how people and internet work. This has nothing to do with Mozilla culture. Rest assured the engineers of Mozilla are doing their best to make the product superior, independent of the principles difference.

Certainly it is how the internet work, but I always hope for a little bit better!

Generally I've written off arguing on the internet, but sometimes (like today) I slip up when it's too tempting to respond.

> Rest assured the engineers of Mozilla are doing their best to make the product superior, independent of the principles difference.

Even if it's obvious it is always nice to hear that an organization cares about doing the best job they can. I'm very appreciative of the work Mozilla is doing even if here I'm defending the critics of their work.

I also recognize your name from the massive contributions you're making to the Rust ecosystem. Thanks!

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

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

tomxor wrote: post #299
torben-friis wrote: post #18

I wonder if it's been on purpose or just, as always, their automatic algorithms being imposible to contest when they're wrong. Honestly, Google's (and general tech giants') willingness to let people's lives be caught in the cracks of their algorithms in their pursue for scalability scares me more than any ideology they could push. More and more, we're seeing developers and content creators being banned or demonetised…

> I wonder if it's been on purpose or just, as always, their automatic algorithms being imposible to contest when they're wrong. Further down the github issue, another person attempts to submit the same build recieving the same response. But then asks for clarification on the applicability to uBlock only to receive an excerpt from ToC bundling advice... Pretty sure this is not algorithmic. As the dev said they are be…

Do you mean this post?

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745#iss...

That's the developer relenting and trying to resubmit, after fuming at one of their users suggesting to do so. The reply they get is the same as the original reply, including the ToS (right? Not "ToC") but excluding the bit about risking being banned if the same vilation occurs multiple times. It still looks like an automated reply though.

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

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Post by 2ion »

rvnx wrote: post #48
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 ;)

> wouldn't want to block

everything that distracts or sends signals that have nothing to do with the intent of the user for visiting a site in the first place is an anti-pattern. I block all ads and even obstrusive elements using custom styles or UBO cosmetic filters...

This shows especially well in older generations who are not very used to the information overflood and competition for attention on the internet. Mixing legitimate content with ads is the craziest pattern on the internet by far; and in untrained users -- most of the older ones -- this causes confusion, frustration and finally exhaustion with the medium.

We who are used to this are just the internet user version of Pavlov's dogs.

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