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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 jisnsm »

crazygringo wrote: post #146
jisnsm wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's useless if it blocks 99.9% of what you need, but not the custom 0.1% you want on top?

As long as I have an alternative I would never choose the ad blocker that doesn’t let me block the elements I want.

For most websites I don’t care but there are many websites that I visit very often and removing annoying or useless elements and padding is practically mandatory at this point - I wouldn’t want to go back to not being able to do it.

So, answering your question, yes, “useless” was hyperbole.

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

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Post by kccqzy »

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…

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

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Post by Coffeewine »

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.

Surely this is hyperbole? I usually have hundreds of tabs open on firefox.

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

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Post by akaij »

TZubiri wrote: post #62
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…

"Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit..." That's some fatalistic wording. How about: Company that publishes a free product and business model relies on ads, stops distributing app that piggybacks on their free product while circumventing ads.

To me it’s just another decision rooted in greed, to take away more Agency from the User Agent.

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

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Post by jordanb »

marricks wrote: post #148
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.

> Chrome is their project, they should be free to do whatever they want with it. Google has a long history of "accidentally" breaking gmail on firefox and funneling users to Chrome back in the day. It's beyond stupid to argue they should be able to do whatever they want with their vertically integrated monopoly. Like, if you want to dig holes in your own driveway sure whatever, but if you own all the roads in Detroit…

Not even "back in the day". Youtube and Gsuite constantly break on firefox.

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

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Post by eNV25 »

noman-land wrote: post #118
jmuguy wrote: post #86

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/

FYI developer edition has a ton of additional data collection that I don't believe can be disabled, if that matters to you.

Isn't Developer Edition just a rebranded Firefox Beta that uses a different profile by default?

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

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Post by crazygringo »

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.

The adblockers still work on Chrome though.

Pretty sure people are figuring out to switch to uBlock Origin Lite and ads -- including on YouTube -- are still being blocked just fine.

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

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Post by knight_47 »

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. :)

My biggest complaints with my switch is 1) no Chromecast functionality on Youtube and many other supported video platforms, 2) Very minimal page/text translation services (Arabic is missing), and 3) no search or translate from image (google lens) which I have gotten pretty used to. Oh and also, seeking videos is weird on FF, the mouse goes way past the scrubber when fast-forwarding or rewinding, just seems weird..
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