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

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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 syvanen »

not_your_vase wrote: post #5

That definitely shows why Google isn't abusing its monopoly powers, and why it shouldn't be broken up.

It’s so weird to observe how Alphabet doesn’t seem to even try to keep its parts separated.

Amazon at least tries keeps its companies separated from each other. AWS account teams doesn’t know what Amazon teams do and vice versa.

While Google Cloud account team constantly gets involved with Workspaces, Ads and Google Play related stuff.

If I remember right just few years ago Google was told to stop giving cheaper prices on Google Cloud based on customers Ads and Google Play revenue.

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

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Post by sss111 »

wqaatwt wrote: post #26
sss111 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

These are the instructions for Windows from OP's reddit post: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/29...

So much more complicated.

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

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Post by likeabatterycar »

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.

Just ChromeOS? Firefox on Mac sucks.

Here is one example: Firefox's tracking of the mouse cursor is broken, and often (yes, it's inconsistent) applies a vector translation so when trying to click something like a button or menu, the cursor needs to be about 100 x-y pixels away from the target. Only Firefox native UI is affected. These are My_First_Program.app tier bugs that should not exist in mature, 20 year old software.

Phoenix 0.1 didn't have this many beginner bugs. Mozilla has lost its way and only continues to exist because Google funds them to be a paper tiger competitor. Opera sold out to the Chinese. Microsoft gave up and now simps Google. Apple only supports their own platform. What is left?

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

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Post by ramon156 »

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

My average friend doesn't care about devtools, only if they can watch YouTube in silence

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

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Post by SturgeonsLaw »

sss111 wrote: post #32
wqaatwt wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

These are the instructions for Windows from OP's reddit post: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/29... So much more complicated.

It's a one liner in Powershell

New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome" -Name "ExtensionManifestV2Availability" -Value 2 -PropertyType DWORD -Force

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

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Post by grecy »

likeabatterycar wrote: post #33
jldl805 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Just ChromeOS? Firefox on Mac sucks. Here is one example: Firefox's tracking of the mouse cursor is broken, and often (yes, it's inconsistent) applies a vector translation so when trying to click something like a button or menu, the cursor needs to be about 100 x-y pixels away from the target. Only Firefox native UI is affected. These are My_First_Program.app tier bugs that should not exist in mature, 20 year old sof…

I’ve been using Firefox on OS X since forever (never jumped to chrome and back) and I’ve never experienced this. Is there a bug report? Surely this would get a lot of attention.

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

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Post by pogue »

Both Brave & Opera have built in adblockers that are not dependent on Manifest to run. I haven't played with Opera too much, but Brave lets you add custom lists and works quite well. Combine that with a DNS based adblocker such as HaGeZi [1] or OISD from free DNS providers like ControlD or NextDNS and you'll be golden.

[1] https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists?tab=readme-ov-file#...

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

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Post by Kwpolska »

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.

Get a real computer.
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