uBlock Origin always worked best in Firefox anyhow:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
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#402This removal can be bypassed until June (edit: or possibly even August) by changing some flags or setting enterprise policies: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1itw1bz/end_o...
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#403Earlier quoted context omitted.
>If you think improving privacy is a joke, go look at how easily extensions can steal your browsing history and steal your passwords. uBlock Origin is the good one, but for every good one there are malicious ad blockers that do far worse things. Except removing support for webRequestBlocking in manifest v3 doesn't really improve security. Nearly every extension require the "access your data for all sites" permission.…
It does. I just don't install any extension that requires access to my data on all sites.
That would also mean you avoid any extension that would have been able to (ab)use webRequestBlocking, so removing it wouldn't have increased security.
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#404How long do you reckon before firefox/mozilla follow suit? Weeks? Months? Years? A year is my guess.
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#405Is there any justification for this beyond increasing Google's ad revenue?
The quiet part which none of us are saying out loud (bec. we love UBO) is that it's insane to allow extensions to have that much power.
uBlock Origin is obv a great great extension and I'm considering switching to FF just for that one extension, but consider what some newfangled AI extension developed by a random dude can do to the webpage you're viewing - anything UBO can do! So I think they have a decent case but I wish there was a carveout for UBO
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#406Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You have to take the CEO's philosophy into account when choosing technology tools unfortunately. I personally dmd Eich on Twitter during 2019-2021 ish. He's opposed to censorship, tracking, government lockdowns during COVID, and authoritarianism. That is exactly who you want running your browser and search company if you wish to use an open Internet. It's anti chat control, anti governments choosing which apps it's c…
> He's opposed to […] government lockdowns during COVID
> That is exactly who you want running your browser and search company
Yes. “Does the CEO have strong opinions on public health? Are those opinions based more on public health fundamentals or is it vibes?” is the first line of inquiry I pursue when I am looking to download a program on the computer
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#407Nobody 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... Doesn't Safari have the same restriction, also ostensibly for "security/privacy" reasons? The only difference is that Apple doesn't have a web advertising presence, so you can't make the accusation that they're "abuse its market position to their own benefit".
Whataboutism is so lazy.
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#408Earlier quoted context omitted.
This conspiracy theory doesn't make sense because safari's content blockers (ie. the nerfed version of adblock) block most ads just fine, especially from google ads. The only ads that get through are first party ads (eg. youtube), but as of a few years ago adblockers could block those as well, so it's a moot point.
Safari content blockers are awful compared to UBlock and I’m a Safari user. Not only does YouTube either get through or cause weird issues, YouTube now blocks you until you completely disable the extension. Content blockers often block cookie banners too which can often result in broken functionality - a nightmare when you’re trying to buy tickets to something and have to “reload without blockers” for the website to…
>Not only does YouTube either get through or cause weird issues, YouTube now blocks you until you completely disable the extension
Works fine on my machine. You might need to update your filter lists or try another content blocker app.
>Content blockers often block cookie banners too which can often result in broken functionality - a nightmare when you’re trying to buy tickets to something and have to “reload without blockers” for the website to work.
So don't enable the filter lists that try to block cookie banners?
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#409Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
#410Meanwhile scam cookie stuffing extensions like Honey are 'featured'