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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 smittywerben »

behringer wrote: post #132
fishtacos wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Odd - my experience is the opposite. FF is noticeably slower than Chrome, and my Chrome installation is loaded with extensions, unlike Firefox. Phoronix's tests seem to back my experience as well. From 4 days ago: "As for the Firefox vs. Chrome performance, Google's web browser continues generally delivering better performance." https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=firefox6...

I don't know why people choose their browser based on resource usage. You can have a browser run by a company looking to loot the public good for their own gain, or a non-profit looking to keep the web open and free. Hold on I'm going to pick the one that's marginally faster and more ram efficient...

I've always thought "browser performance" was a trope (relic?) from when tabs were new and chrome did tabs the best.

If I can't have ublock origin, I'm going back to internet explorer 11.

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

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Post by guelo »

rsync wrote: post #402
TheMiller wrote: post #359

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do get it. I've been using it for several months, and I run into problems fairly often. Nothing wrong with the implementation, AFAICT, but it takes a fair amount of thought to assign sites to different containers, and you can easily end up following links that cross container boundaries and then don't work right because of the context change. I've even run into several corporate sites where federated authentication…

"I do get it. I've been using it for several months, and I run into problems fairly often. Nothing wrong with the implementation, AFAICT, but it takes a fair amount of thought to assign sites to different containers, and you can easily end up following links that cross container boundaries and then don't work right because of the context change." See my comment above - I think the obvious workflow for containers is a…

That makes a lot of sense, same as private browsing which opens a new window.

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

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Post by devwastaken »

If that's the hill chrome wants to die on then they can watch everyone install Firefox. The internet is unusable without an adblocker. It's very simple to just use Firefox, I've had no negative differences or learning curves from it, and previously would just swap between the two.

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

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Post by laegooose »

jacquesm wrote: post #39
gtirloni wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a pretty good idea for Google and, judging by the adoption, it serves users very well too. I think it's up to other browsers to offer better solutions.

The internet wasn't made for Google. And if you think it serves users very well too then I suggest you read TFA, it is clear that what is good for Google and what is good for users are not aligned.

What is TFA? Brief web search didn't help

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

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Post by lazyguy2 »

dTal wrote: post #222
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…

Once again sci-fi proves astonishingly prescient - this kind of world was predicted as early as 1965, in Gordon Dickson's darkly humorous short story "Computers Don't Argue" (which you can find on Google if you're interested).

Being stonewalled by bureaucracy with no explanation given is nothing new.

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

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Post by neonate »

joshka wrote: post #412

Fixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/dgoymg/warning_ubo_... > Hey all, I'm Simeon, the developer advocate for Chrome extensions. This morning I heard from the review team; they've approved the current draft so next publish should go through. Unfortunately it's the weekend, so most folks are out, but I'm planning to follow up with u/gorhill4 with more details once I have them.

Seven minutes between that comment there and this one here. Arbitrage.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

laegooose wrote: post #424
jacquesm wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet wasn't made for Google. And if you think it serves users very well too then I suggest you read TFA, it is clear that what is good for Google and what is good for users are not aligned.

What is TFA? Brief web search didn't help

'The Fine Article'

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

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Post by lazyguy2 »

dessant wrote: post #104

Google must be forced to open up Chrome to third-party extension stores. A monopoly deciding on the kind of browser extensions we get to distribute and use is sickening. As Chrome is a dominant platform, our work is prevented from reaching users if it does not align with the bussiness goals of Google, and extensions that users want on their devices are effectively censored out of existence. Again, the solution in the…

> Google must be forced to open up Chrome to third-party extension stores.

How about instead of acting as a victim and waiting for some government technocrat from the consequences of your own choices... Just stop using Google-Chrome?

IT's not a monopoly when there are other good browsers you can use.

In fact the only real monopolies that exist only due so in conjunction with government through some special grant of privilege.

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

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Post by qes »

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 (that they didn't acquire)?... It seems like they give a half-assed attempt at creating new products as a way to keep skilled talent at Google rather than having them leave to work for Facebook or Apple.

What new products have Apple or, seriously?, Facebook created that you actually like?

Pretty sure people aren't leaving Google for Apple & Facebook because they want to build good new products.

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

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Post by nvrspyx »

catalogia wrote: post #310
alexfromapex wrote: post #129

Someone needs to create a rival search engine to Google. I have tried switching but Bing and DuckDuckGo aren't anywhere near as good.

90% of the time I search something, I already know what website I'm looking for. For instance when I searched for "Monaco Grand Prix" a few minutes ago, I already knew the result I wanted was the wikipedia page about it. So instead of searching on google "Monaco Grand Prix wiki" I searched in the firefox address bar "wiki Monaco Grand Prix". Wiki is my search keyword for "search this on wikipedia". By creating search…

Just to add, there are a few websites that have horrible search engines, like Reddit, so I do the same, but use my primary search engine's URL scheme specifying which site to limit the search to. For example, if I wanted to use "reddit" to have Google search Reddit instead of Reddit itself, I'd use something like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s

Of course, you can use any search engine you want, such as DDG. You just have to figure out the URL scheme for limiting the search to a specific domain and include it in the search URL when adding it to Firefox (or any other browser that lets you manually add search engines and keywords).

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