Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by olyjohn » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 7:24 AM UTC

jldl805 wrote: post #14

peutetre wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bypass Chrome altogether. Use Firefox.

Firefox on ChromeOS sucks though. Just went through this, tried Canary, etc. Went back to Chrome.

Bypass ChromeOS alltogether. Use a different Linux distro.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by fnqi8ckfek » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 7:35 AM UTC

infotainment wrote: post #12

peutetre wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bypass Chrome altogether. Use Firefox.

If only Mozilla (the parent organization) wasn’t horrible. Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser?

Mozilla let's me use ublock origin, Google doesn't.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by mazambazz » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 8:09 AM UTC

infotainment wrote: post #12

peutetre wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bypass Chrome altogether. Use Firefox.

If only Mozilla (the parent organization) wasn’t horrible. Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser?

I think you need to be a little bit crazy to enter the browser space. It's not for the feint of heart.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by sonudfgh » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 8:27 AM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by wklm » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 8:30 AM UTC

Could someone explain in simple terms, what’s so tricky about spinning off a v2-compatible chromium fork?

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by wqaatwt » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 8:30 AM UTC

sss111 wrote: post #17

tech234a wrote: post #9

The removal can be bypassed until June 2025: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...

and its really easy on MacOS, you just have to run defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist ExtensionManifestV2Availability -int 2 Another case where windows makes simple things unnecessarily cumbersome

You can’t edit config files on Windows from the terminal?

Not really an expert but PowerShell always seemed kind of more “powerful” and/or complex than bash

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by Zardoz84 » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 8:54 AM UTC

ornornor wrote: post #19

peutetre wrote: post #4

Friends don't let friends use Chrome. Use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best with Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Unfortunately Firefox is slower than chromium and the devtools are worse. I used Firefox for years because I hate google. I eventually gave up, that’s how bad ff is.

I think that Firefox dev tools are better

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by Zardoz84 » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 8:55 AM UTC

darthrupert wrote: post #15

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People suggesting that using uBlock Lite and not Firefox with full uBlock, probably not has been in an abusive relationship.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by Alex-Programs » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 9:01 AM UTC

Zardoz84 wrote: post #27

ornornor wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately Firefox is slower than chromium and the devtools are worse. I used Firefox for years because I hate google. I eventually gave up, that’s how bad ff is.

I think that Firefox dev tools are better

Yeah, I'm used to the Firefox ones and whenever I use the chrome ones they seem fine, worse in some ways but better in others (device emulation) while being a little unfamiliar.

The webextension dev tools are better too, imo.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by Jyaif » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 9:08 AM UTC

wklm wrote: post #25

Could someone explain in simple terms, what’s so tricky about spinning off a v2-compatible chromium fork?

Forget about forking, just offering a build of Chromium for a single platform and architecture that gets the security updates in time is a lot of work.