I hear so many people IRL complaining about this. I tell them to switch to firefox, that the adblockers still work there, and they still won't switch to it because they are "used to chrome". I really feel like google won this battle. People will through a lot of abuse just to maintain their habits.
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
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Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
#52what ll it take to convert 80% of the world wide web users from chrome to firefox. can we write a super duper complicated migrator of sorts that literally installs firefox on behalf of the user, migrates all their data, migrates all extensions from chrome to firefox, even suggests alternative extensions for the ones that are not available and market the hell out of this migrator across x, bluesky, reddit etc?, One cl…
I'm just hoping for AI coding to get competent enough in next few years to throw in deprecated chrome extensions code and get it converted to firefox.
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#53This made me go back to Firefox after 15 years of using Chrome personally.
Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
#54There is still a DOM hack to allow installation by re-enabling the "Add to Chrome" button on the linked page. See "Download and install uBlock Origin in Chrome" on this page: https://www.neowin.net/guides/google-turned-off-ublock-in-ch...
After the install, Chrome will disable the extension on the next restart but it can be re-enabled .. for now.
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#55Is it actually gone? I thought they just put that warning. I just re-enabled the one already installed on my devices. Once it's legit gone gone though yeah I'm going to Firefox or use Edge for web dev stuff Edit: I will say I am a hypocrite though I am trying to build a following by posting on YouTube... I don't control the ads on there, maybe you do when you are monetizable but yeah sucks I feel bad for the viewers.…
gone for some... many... most.
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#56Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
#57I hear so many people IRL complaining about this. I tell them to switch to firefox, that the adblockers still work there, and they still won't switch to it because they are "used to chrome". I really feel like google won this battle. People will through a lot of abuse just to maintain their habits.
I use Firefox as my main browser and it's not a viable alternative to Chrome if you have the very common usage pattern of keeping tens of tabs open.
Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
#58I am coming from a place of ignorance, but could uBlock have worked on Manifest v3?
It seems like it would have worked, but the danger was over time Google report less and less information to the extension, but as it is today, the extension would have worked the same on v3 as v2?
As I say - I am ignorant sorry, its hard to search for an answer to this specific question
Edit: Sorry the answer is here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
#59if you are in tech do your friends and family a favor:
Download and setup Brave browser on their device. I haven't seen an ad in years.