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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 SpicyLemonZest »

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.

I don’t work for Google and genuinely think it’s better for users. It’s always bugged me that ad blockers request arbitrary read write permissions for all websites I visit, and it didn’t seem like that was ever going to change until Chrome forced the issue.

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

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Post by paulddraper »

theteapot wrote: post #72
dgacmu wrote: post #39

I've been running firefox on my laptop for the last year, with Chrome on my desktop, as a way to head-to-head them. For folks contemplating the switch, it hasn't been bad at all. Some better, some worse, but overall I rarely notice major differences except for a very small handful of sites that won't work with FF. And I still have all of my uBlock origin happiness. :)

What sites don't work with FF?

Certainly no major site.

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

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Post by lostmsu »

ecuzzillo wrote: post #92
theteapot wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? Why? That's me, I use FF.

You can't see all 50-70 tabs on a normal 27" monitor; Chrome will squish them almost indefinitely, and Firefox forces a large minimum tab width that makes the tab bar scroll forever and then you forget half the tabs you have going and everything's bad. I tried to switch and stopped because of this. I'll hang on until ubo really stops working, I guess, and then try to figure something else out.

There's a alternative: the dropdown menu with all tabs.

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

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Post by crazygringo »

charliea0 wrote: post #70

Is there any justification for this beyond increasing Google's ad revenue?

Performance. For faster page loads.

uBlock Origin Lite still blocks ads on Chrome, but it's faster than uBlock Origin.

I don't expect Google's ad revenue has changed meaningfully at all, assuming people switch to uBlock Origin Lite.

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

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Post by dsr_ »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #131
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.

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.

Trusted is known to not be the same as trustworthy.

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

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Post by 6SixTy »

ehecatl42 wrote: post #140
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?

Gentoo user here: all the time. Worst part is that Firefox depends on NodeJS which takes a good day to compile on my 2c/4t 3250U.

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

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Post by OkayPhysicist »

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?

Yup. Sync across all devices, auto fill works a exactly as expected, and it's a couple click process to port over all your saved info from Chrome.

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

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Post by paulddraper »

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.

People didn't switch from IE to Chrome because it was better.

They switched because it was MUCH, MUCH better.

(And was part of the ecosystem, profiles, bookmarks, passwords, etc.)

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For better or worse, no such disparity exists currently.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

drdec wrote: post #35
freedomben wrote: post #16

I hope Mozilla realizes (and still cares) that they have a huge opportunity here to be the power-browser where you can get awesome extensions, unlike the locked-down and hobbled Chromium ecosystem. I suspect they do realize this because they've been really leaning into extensions recently, but over the years I've worried that Mozilla's committment to Firefox isn't as serious as I would like. Regardless, I'd love to s…

My problem with extensions is it's another development team to trust and monitor. I need to know if the extension has been sold, taken over by a new lead, etc.

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