I'm superlatively surprised Google has followed through on what it has promised to do over and over again.
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
#102Brave seems to work well with its privacy shield and a button to turn scripts off as-needed. People only focus on Firefox as an alternative. Am I missing something?
Brave CEO once said some mild hurty words about a fragile group, and so the lefty hive must not publicly support his endeavours (whilst using his JavaScript all day long lol).
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#103If you want a Chromium based browser Brave has a uBlock-esque blocker built right into its core but it's disabled by default because "Brave Shields is enough protection" (it isn't, given the stats I see when enabled). Anyway, you can turn it on and it uses the same blocklists uBlock uses aswell.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#104There has to be google engineers here. Does this just fall on deaf ears? I realize it’s a massive corp but imagine high ranking staff have a say and input. Maybe they don’t and Sundar isn’t worried about that. Or they do a simple cost analysis and short-term they see the benefit and are willing to to risk long term erosion that maybe be minimal. Weird returning to Firefox, but I did and there is nothing in chrome I m…
by now they have made tons of user-hostile changes, just to see the line keep going up, they know that there is a loud vocal minority, but most users are totally fine with MV3 if they even notice a change at all.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#105Seriously, what is a good alternative to Chrome's password management? For lazy end users.
I have always found Bitwarden to be the best one after trying many alternatives. One thing that stood out is how its phone app works seamlessly with FaceID/Fingerprint. From logged out to login is as smooth as allowing your phone to use biometrics.
Bitwarden seems to be getting updates often as well which I value in a security conscious product.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#106There has to be google engineers here. Does this just fall on deaf ears? I realize it’s a massive corp but imagine high ranking staff have a say and input. Maybe they don’t and Sundar isn’t worried about that. Or they do a simple cost analysis and short-term they see the benefit and are willing to to risk long term erosion that maybe be minimal. Weird returning to Firefox, but I did and there is nothing in chrome I m…
Google is deliberately doing this to break ad blocking for Google ads while still allowing ad blockers to work for non Google ads. Most users probably won’t care enough to change browsers or many won’t really notice
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is just kicking the can down the road. The bigger question is how the Chromium forks are going to respond long-term. I suspect the APIs enabling ad blocking are only going to get more clamped down requiring additional work for forks.
Brave has committed to do what they can as long as they can. But unsure how long and what that really turns out to be. https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/
Like I said before, Brave even has a better solution because it has a uBlock compatible ad blocker _built in straight into its core_ (but its disabled by default). Same block lists, same safety assurances.
Although I still use Firefox with uBlock as my daily driver at home, Brave with block lists and Shields is right next to it (and I use it as my daily driver at work). It works pretty damn well!
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#108I'm superlatively surprised Google has followed through on what it has promised to do over and over again.
"I'm surprised they did what they said they would do" will be the anthem of 2025 unfortunately
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#109Both 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#...
I'm using Brave and have no idea why you got downvoted. People are talking like Chrome and FF are the only two things on Earth.
The silent downvote curse spreads.
Can someone kindly speak up and explain?
What's wrong with talking about Brave?
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#110Wipr for the win, Chrome nevermore.
Last time I tried Wipr+Safari, it didn't match the power of uBO+Chrome.