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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 princevegeta89 »

sneak wrote: post #91
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…

The issue I have is not that they did it; it’s that they lied about why. Chrome is their project, they should be free to do whatever they want with it. People can use a different browser if they wish (I do). This whole “better for users” bullshit is why I don’t respect Google as a company. Don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining.

Where I live, Google rented out a huge Billboard to advertise Chrome, and it cites Chrome as "the world's most trusted browser"

I LOL every time I see it. Imagine the lengths they have to go to, to try to make people trust a product they have.

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

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Post by whalesalad »

layer8 wrote: post #84
whalesalad wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 .

I haven't tried anything but Chrome/Chromium (nightly dev). Brave is my dedicated porn browser I won't use it for anything else.

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

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Post by noman-land »

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.

It's learned helplessness, laziness, bordering on cowardice.

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

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Post by skotobaza »

zanellato19 wrote: post #111
sneak wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue I have is not that they did it; it’s that they lied about why. Chrome is their project, they should be free to do whatever they want with it. People can use a different browser if they wish (I do). This whole “better for users” bullshit is why I don’t respect Google as a company. Don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining.

Their engineers genuinely believe that shit too, which is just absurd bullshit.

Do they really? Or are you assuming?

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

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Post by fiatjaf »

submeta wrote: post #104

Abandoned Chrome years ago. Am using Firefox and never looked back. Same with other Google products: Replaced Gmail with Fastmail, Google Docs with Office365 (yeah, I know, Microsoft).

The hardest thing to replace was always search to me, because the usually alternatives (DuckDuckGo, Ecosia etc) always suck.

But Kagi made that part so easy it's unbelievable.

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

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

Ringz wrote: post #94
inertiatic wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 have no problem with hundreds of tabs on Firefox.

There is a "tab count" extension. Install it only if you want to learn some awful truths about yourself.

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

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Post by betaby »

whstl wrote: post #79
colordrops wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is lost by going to this version?

If it’s anything like Safari’s declarative blocklists: Ad blocking on Youtube. Youtube-blocking Safari extensions “solve” Youtube blocking by using non-declarative APIs that need full access to Youtube. Apple seems ok with that so far, but the APIs are not as goods, so their success rate is limited. Whether Google will allow new extensions that block Youtube remains to be seen.

Could you please tell me what "Youtube-blocking Safari extensions" are you referring? Are they MacOS only or can be installed on IPad? Thanks!

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

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Post by jisnsm »

iszomer wrote: post #81
chrisweekly wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

An ad blocker is useless to me if I can’t block whatever I want with it.

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

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Post by ehecatl42 »

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…

Emacs Web Wowser for the most part, for me, and it basically works... except when it fucking does not.

The modern web, as we all know, is all kinds of shit. Anybody here compile Firefox recently?

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