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

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Post by dredmorbius »

peterangular wrote: post #461
dredmorbius wrote: post #417

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Vimeo works with youtube-dl. Probably VLC. Video viewing (as opposed to previewing) really belongs outside the browser anyway.

I'm a heavy YouTube consumer and this just seems like a headache with extra steps/complication, while shooting features like live streaming + chat in the head. Also it's a normal use case to view videos in your browser.

I rarely view livestreams, nor use chats. I don't know if there are alternatives to either.

Using mps-youtube to search, curate, manage, and play lists of videos, without relying on YouTube's server-side management is a real bonus.

Hooking mpv into the stream more smoothly would be useful, and I don't have a good method yet. But given my primary use-case (listening, audio-only), the fact that in the case of video and audio you really can only watch/listen to a single performance at a time, and the fact that in general what's most useful for me is to have a queue of content that I'm going to watch/listen to, in sequence, non-browser tools turn out to be far more useful than browser-based ones.

Most especially when you throw auto-play and advertising into the mix, and find yourself with multiple auto-playing tabs amongst ... well, I'm embarassed to say just how many browser tabs I typically have open, but it's a lot.

WFM. YMMV.

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

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Post by ripdog »

BuckRogers wrote: post #466
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.

For those of us on Microsoft Edge, it's time to uninstall uBlock Origin[0] from the Chrome Store and install it from the Microsoft Store[1]. It's about time someone seriously challenges and smokes Google's boots. [0] https://i.imgur.com/ZGxI3xO.png [1] https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/insider-addons/detail/od...

Or you could cease contributing to the Blink monopoly on the web and join us of Firefox. Microsoft is no longer challenging Google in this space.

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

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Post by ripdog »

throwaway8941 wrote: post #168
Ayesh wrote: post #146

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Not the OP, but password management and syncing in Firefox is a bit clunky. I use and love the send to device feature and password syncing (I use FF as my main drive for desktop and mobile), but they are quite slow compared to Chrome. I get it that Chrome is syncing aggressively, which would have been nice in Firefox too, even if it eats up my mobile data. Chrome web view is also the default web view in Android.

They completely reworked password manager in version 70. Try FF Developer Edition or Beta? https://i.imgur.com/o2nOB8h.png

I use and love Firefox, but password storage really shouldn't be handled by the browser. They've never done a good job at it. I use and recommend Bitwarden wholeheartedly.

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

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Post by BuckRogers »

ripdog wrote: post #472
BuckRogers wrote: post #466

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For those of us on Microsoft Edge, it's time to uninstall uBlock Origin[0] from the Chrome Store and install it from the Microsoft Store[1]. It's about time someone seriously challenges and smokes Google's boots. [0] https://i.imgur.com/ZGxI3xO.png [1] https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/insider-addons/detail/od...

Or you could cease contributing to the Blink monopoly on the web and join us of Firefox. Microsoft is no longer challenging Google in this space.

You could, unless you're like me and having never been on Blink. I've been using Firefox for almost 20 years straight, since it was Phoenix. Edge is my backup/secondary browser and it's great. If you want the benefits of Chrome without Google, Microsoft is the final boss that can't and won't be pushed around by Google.

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

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Post by ornitorrincos »

The_rationalist wrote: post #391
reggintoggaf wrote: post #215

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Have you tried out NewPipe?

Newpipe is broken isn't it? Everybody should just install kiwi, it's chromium for Android WITH extensions (YouTube background audio, uBlock, etc)

um, newpipe does work for me.

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

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Post by Judgmentality »

zaroth wrote: post #410
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…

The top ranked comment on the page is a call to switch to Firefox . Google clearly does not have a monopoly on browsers, and we should let the market decide which extensions policy is preferred. Now, whether Google is abusing its monopoly on Search to prop up its Chrome install numbers is a different matter.

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Chrome has 2/3 of the browser market and growing. At what point does it become a monopoly? Also don't forget the vast majority of Firefox's revenue is a royalty from Google.

https://fourweekmba.com/how-does-mozilla-make-money/

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

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Post by yoasif_ »

bigjimmyk3 wrote: post #431
tgv wrote: post #283

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Why Nightly? It's not guaranteed to be rock solid.

Right now, nightly contains updates that are specific to energy usage on MacOS (in a good way).

Those updates are also in beta, FWIW.

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

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Post by Pxtl »

Glyptodon wrote: post #177
somebehemoth wrote: post #70

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I see this all the time and I think it is unhelpful to make these kinds of statements. I can make a counterpoint that I've used FF on Android for years and never experienced any issues whatsoever. I am not trying invalidate your experience, but want to point out anecdotes don't really paint a fair picture for either side of the argument. For example, how do we know my good experience and your bad experience are not e…

I've been a mostly FF user on Android for years and it does crash routinely for me, and also will do a thing where it doesn't crash but every page renders blank until I restart it. I've always assumed both items might be related to memory management either for graphics or in general.

Yeah, that's the failure case I was hitting. The crash was manageable, but I the blank screen was often tedious to recover from.

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

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Post by JohnicBoom »

behringer wrote: post #443
JohnicBoom wrote: post #327

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If you go into Gmail's General Settings screen, you can uncheck "Open web links in Gmail". All the links I open in Gmail open directly in Firefox for me after doing that. If I leave that box checked, it does use a web view that is "Powered by Firefox", but I always prefer to have it just open a new tab in my regular Firefox app.

Hey thanks, I presumed it was chrome because it ran differently compared to my normal FF install and had no plugins! Sorry for the newb moment!

Yeah, being able to run uBlock Origin is one of the main reasons I don't want apps opening links in anything but my main Firefox install.

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

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Post by catalogia »

celdon25 wrote: post #457
vbezhenar wrote: post #445

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You can shout at bureaucrats. You have some basic rights. You can demand escalation of your issue. You can't do much when your Google account is banned.

Sounds more like the USSR than the USA

Yeah, but I can't slip the computer a bribe to make the problem go away.
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