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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

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Post by iszomer »

chrisweekly wrote: post #25
colordrops wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is lost by going to this version?

custom filters / block lists

Realistically, how often is this functionality used en' mass? I remember using it once or twice throughout my lifetime of using this extension.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by rendang »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #26

what 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…

What's keeping me from moving away from Chrome is the password storage & autofilling. Is Firefox's password manager just as good?

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by dewey »

whalesalad wrote: post #76
bearjaws wrote: post #4

Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit... I migrated off Chrome as soon as this BS story about improving privacy, a joke coming from Google. Then the excuse was "well it improves performance", which they could easily do by marking extensions as low performance. If Google wanted to improve this they have an entire search engine where they could re-ran…

100% agree with you. Unfortunately Chrome is damn near a requirement if you are interacting with the Google Cloud console. Try to use BigQuery studio in any other browser and you are in for a world of hurt. Have we seen this movie before?

Exactly the reason why I use https://choosy.app to always redirect everything Google Cloud to Chrome, but everything else to Firefox.

That way if I click on some random GCP link in Slack it opens the link in Chrome, but everything else stays in Firefox. I don't need ad blocking for GCP so that works fine.

Sucks, but better than using Chrome full time.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by layer8 »

whalesalad wrote: post #76
bearjaws wrote: post #4

Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit... I migrated off Chrome as soon as this BS story about improving privacy, a joke coming from Google. Then the excuse was "well it improves performance", which they could easily do by marking extensions as low performance. If Google wanted to improve this they have an entire search engine where they could re-ran…

100% agree with you. Unfortunately Chrome is damn near a requirement if you are interacting with the Google Cloud console. Try to use BigQuery studio in any other browser and you are in for a world of hurt. Have we seen this movie before?

Other Chromium-based browsers don’t work?

That would at least save you from stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942252.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by toomuchtodo »

rendang wrote: post #82
vivzkestrel wrote: post #26

what 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…

What's keeping me from moving away from Chrome is the password storage & autofilling. Is Firefox's password manager just as good?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-your-logins-fire...

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by jmuguy »

Related if anyone is switching over. I like to run Firefox Developer Edition[0] as my "work" browser, with work related bookmarks, etc. and then regular Firefox for nonwork. This makes it really easy to keep the two separate. I know there's a lot of ways to segment within the same browser but this works well for me.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by dewey »

inertiatic wrote: post #57
phito wrote: post #51

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.

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.

I use Firefox as my main browser and having "tens of tabs open" is something I do and there's zero issues with that.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by lawn »

inertiatic wrote: post #57
phito wrote: post #51

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.

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.

I constantly have way more than that open. On mobile it's also over 100 tabs.
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