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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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sneak wrote: post #162
marricks wrote: post #148

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> 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…

If people don’t like this, they can stop using gmail. Neither Chrome, nor Gmail is a monopoly. The more things Google does to make gmail less useful, the better. It’s no secret that Google is an ad company. Anyone still using gmail deserves what they get.

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Post by MattTheRealOne »

wistlo wrote: post #192

When I click the link for this story, Edge (stop laughing. Please.) pops up "uBlock Origin works on Microsoft Edge." (It's already there, Edge, but thank you). Edge is based on Chromium, so would that mean this breakage will eventually apply to Edge as the Manifest changes, uhm, manifest to Chromium-based products? Or is this just a Google Chrome thing? FWIW I keep Firefox around but I have to admit I like Edge's smo…

Many Chromium-based browsers will keep Manifest v2 support for a while. But eventually the upstream Chromium codebase will diverge enough that it becomes too much work to keep it and they will be forced to drop it as well.

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Post by agosta »

dewey wrote: post #119
sergiotapia wrote: post #59

if you are in tech do your friends and family a favor: Download and setup Brave browser on their device. I haven't seen an ad in years. https://brave.com/

Still the same engine as Chrome, so it doesn't do anything against the monoculture of Chromium. Firefox works just as well, admittedly they'd have to install an extension instead of ad blocking being there by default.

This post is about UBlock being blocked on CHROME. Naturally, the folks interested in this development are likely interested in a chromium based browser that does allow blocking ads. Brave is a solid solution here.

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Post by shkkmo »

nottorp wrote: post #161
bad_user wrote: post #96

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Nobody uses Ladybird, at this point it's vaporware. And Thunderbird is still based on Firefox. The development of Firefox costs around $200 million per year. That's more than what Wikimedia can get from donations, and Wikipedia is a website that everyone uses. And you want to rely on donations from people that ad-block YouTube instead of paying for Premium. And let's say that it manages to bring those costs down to $…

> And you want to rely on donations from people that ad-block YouTube instead of paying for Premium. Does Google guarantee it won't spy on me if i pay for Premium? ... no, didn't think so. Besides not everyone uses youtube to the point where paying for it is worth it. > The development of Firefox costs around $200 million per year. Does it? Or that's what the mozilla organization wastes on harebrained initiatives ove…

> Does it? Or that's what the mozilla organization wastes on harebrained initiatives overall?

Mozilla Foundation spent 260 million on software development in 2023. https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/mozilla-fdn-202...

That may include some software development on non-firefox products though.

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Post by FergusArgyll »

caminante wrote: post #211
croes wrote: post #165

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But is less capable than uBlock origin.

Not really. 90% of users won't notice a difference. Here's the feature diff. [0] [0] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

I really really miss Zapper Mode

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Post by DrillShopper »

bad_user wrote: post #232
nottorp wrote: post #203

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> 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.

> they've been all blockchain when that was in fashion They've never been “all blockchain”, what are you talking about?

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Post by ziddoap »

sneak wrote: post #216
marricks wrote: post #196

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Why be bitter at the people dealing with the shit, why not be angry at the people making the world shit? My company uses gmail so I'm forced to use it.

Everyone dealing with gmail is doing so because they chose to. Let’s not pretend this was done unto them. Anyone can stop using gmail at any time.

>Anyone can stop using gmail at any time.

Just going to copy/paste this part of the comment you replied to, because it seems like you may have missed it?

>My company uses gmail so I'm forced to use it.

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Post by venusenvy47 »

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?

Expedia doesn't render properly in Firefox - some of the sections are missing, but it's not immediately obvious what is missing. It took me a while to figure out why my wife kept having problems with that site, and I had to move her to Chrome to allow her to use it.

I continue to use Firefox because I know when to suspect a website problem might be the browser, but she doesn't have the ability to analyze a situation like this. I have this conundrum with other family members that I support. I want them to use Firefox, but I hate to have them run into an issue because of the browser I recommended.

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