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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 topspin »

Spivak wrote: post #99
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've been telling my IRL non-technical friends to use Brave. By far the easiest migration path, literally is Chrome, but with with a good built-in ad blocker and uBlock Origin. I've long since understood that any browser that I would use should be treated as an anti-recommendation for normal folks. I can already see the "but the crypto thing" and yeah, I don't love it but it's so out of the way that I don't even know…

> But in two days I have 4 new Brave users.

What happens when adtech decides this is a problem because the hoi polloi have arrived? Have you thought about that as you're cluing in normies?

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Post by ta1243 »

DrillShopper wrote: post #320
ta1243 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nearly 20 years of attacks, from both the left and the right, across the anglosphere.

It goes back waaaaaaay further than 20 years. The most recent case before this was nearly 40 years ago under Reagan, and he certainly wasn't the first president guilty of it.

This isn't a Trump thing.

The "Main Stream Media" rhetoric really started with the teaparty stuff, powered by the internet, and championed both the right (tea party in america, faragists in the UK) and left (corbynistas in the uk, AOC types I assume in the states)

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Post by TheRealPomax »

TylerE wrote: post #288
randomNumber7 wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linux?

Linux is massively funded by companies like IBM and Red Hat. The Linux Foundation receives over $15m in corporate funding.

Note that $15 million is nowhere near enough to pay the number of employees who work on Firefox. As a for-profit (unlike the foundation), Mozilla the corporation has to pay folks market rates, and if you're paying an employee in the US, you're paying that same amount on top as taxes, insurance, benefits, etc. etc. so $15 million gets you a few dozen people at most. Mozilla employs a few hundred. So you'll have to add a zero to that number before it's in the same ballpark (e.g. wikipedia would be a good example).

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Post by pmdr »

creato wrote: post #281
crazygringo wrote: post #115

Fortunately, at least so far, uBlock Origin Lite works perfectly fine on Chrome. I know people have made a lot of arguments as to why it might not be as good in theory, or why things might change in the future. But so far, ever since I was forced to switch, I have seen exactly zero difference. Lists are updated often enough that I haven't seen anything get through. Adblocking works on YouTube. If anything, pages seem…

It's also great to not give basically unlimited permissions to an extension.

I think people should be able to do whatever they want on their own machine. If the setting is there, then let me use it for whatever extension I see fit. Sure, make it harder to do so, but don't treat users like children. I can't even screenshot banking apps on my own damn Android phone now.

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Post by alephnerd »

klardotsh wrote: post #337
gruez wrote: post #301

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>Well, this country (the US) decided in November to go the exact opposite direction of having a government capable of, let alone willing to, pursuing litigation like this No? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299886

Okay, I'll retract my remarks when the new formation of the FTC actually goes after a tech giant. And frankly, I have doubt any DOJ filings of this type won't get repealed by force from above in short order. This is a case that was mostly handled by the prior DOJ, which is gone now, replaced by new management.

> replaced by new management.

New management is aligned with breaking up big tech.

Founders Fund (Thiel), A16Z (Andressen [0], Horowitz), and YC (Gary Tan) have all been lobbying for some form of big tech breakup because it sucks up capital+oxygen needed for startups they funded to exit at respectable valuations.

Also, Andressen's Netscape was screwed over by Microsoft, so he has a grudge against large players.

[0] - https://www.businessinsider.com/andreessen-more-tech-compani...

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Post by alluro2 »

haswell wrote: post #124

After 10+ years as a primary browser, I've been 100% off of Chrome for about 1.5 years now as part of a broader effort to de-Google my life, and things have been going well. It's interesting to notice how much my internal feelings have shifted over the years. There have been a few rare occasions where I had to use a Chromium-based browser, and I felt the same "ick" I used to feel when forced to use Internet Explorer…

You've voiced my sentiment exactly. I really wish Firefox was more at the forefront of innovation and development, and there's a lot to criticise Mozilla for, but I wouldn't change it back for Chromium for anything.

I have a completely custom minimal layout with address bar and tabs at the bottom, all the extensions I need, and I don't notice the performance or compatibility differences almost ever, with few rare exceptions. I feel it much more as "mine", and it's a joy to use.

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

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Post by ClikeX »

fyrabanks wrote: post #311
AstralSerenity wrote: post #198

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Firefox and its derivatives remain the only true alternative at this point.

You can still install uBlock Origin in Brave, assuming you don't mind the crypto stuff and how they pay it out (or, rather don't) to site owners. Even Firefox feels a little weird now with the advent of Mozilla Advertising. Very much a lesser of all evils situation.

Luckily, Firefox has several forks that strip that telemetry.
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