Brave, fork of Chrome. https://brave.com/ Ignore the crypto; enjoy the integrated ad-blocking. Most seamless ad-blocking I've ever experienced.
Amen
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#202Firefox sucks and doesn’t work for me. Maybe I will give Brave with ublock a try.
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If only their goal would be to provide an excellent privacy browser, instead of getting revenue :) All they need is to accept donations that go strictly to the browser and not to the latest blockchain/AI hysteria.
Name a project whose development costs as much as Firefox and that survives from donations. Many people want AI in their browser. And what does Firefox have to do with crypto?
> And what does Firefox have to do with crypto?
Firefox is all AI this year, but they've been all blockchain when that was in fashion.
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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.
More like the willfully blind engineers, disingenuously claim to believe that absurd bullshit. There's not a lot genuine left in that company.
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> Ad blocking on Youtube. uBlock Origin Lite blocks all ads on YouTube for me.
Google push out updates at regular intervals that detect the adblocker why didn't you notice before? ublock origin has a special quick fixes list which updates very frequently, without Google's involvement but with manifest v3: Google are now in charge and have to approve all "definition" updates which they will only do once they've got a new detection method ready and this is the entire point of manifest v3
Just saying, I've been using Lite for months. It's been fine.
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#206It's been like this for quite a while already
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Their engineers genuinely believe that shit too, which is just absurd bullshit.
Do they really? Or are you assuming?
I've seen a lot of their engineers here on HN defending Google's position, and very few of the anti-Google crowd here claim to be (x)googlers.
That said, I know a number of xooglers (myself included) who don't believe for a moment that this would have gotten off the ground if someone important hadn't opined on the usefulness WRT ad-serving.
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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.
It's not ideal, but if that's what it takes to block ads as well as uBlock Origin does, then that's a price I'm willing to pay.
My content blocker on Safari blocks all the same ads as ublock origin in Chrome, with no supposedly no risk of outbound data.
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#209I'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?
The Teams web app doesn't work (I refuse to install the OS level app)
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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.
Like most browsers, Brave can be used with multiple user profiles in parallel.