Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

chromewebstore.google.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

441–450 of 1001 posts

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

#441

Post by throwaway7679 »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

True, and applies to many other things as well. Anyone claiming otherwise is shirking responsibility for their own actions. Every single sibling comment here suffers from this.

Arguments in the form of "other people do it, so I must also" are unpersuasive and pathetic.

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

#442

Post by fp64 »

forty wrote: post #251
6SixTy wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gentoo user here: all the time. Worst part is that Firefox depends on NodeJS which takes a good day to compile on my 2c/4t 3250U.

So actually even Firefox depends on V8...

What’s wrong with V8? Had only pleasant interactions with it so far (maybe compiling takes long, can’t tell, whole webkit is a nightmare in that regard)

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

#443

Post by epiecs »

gruez wrote: post #408
basisword wrote: post #392

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Can you recommend a blocker? I have one (adblock pro), but I cant seem to find where to update the lists and sometimes YT does weird things :)

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

#444

Post by sorenKaram »

This happened to me so I just switched over to Adblock Plus. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adblock-plus-free-a...

AddBlock is still available. I was wondering if there is some issue with the extension itself that it got flagged? Maybe an update to the codebase would make the extension installe-able again?

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

#445

Post by connicpu »

IshKebab wrote: post #386
TechBro8615 wrote: post #373

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Safari content blockers are not enabled in embedded Web Views.

Neither is uBlock Origin.

I get uBlock origin whenever apps open a browser view that uses my default android browser (Firefox) e.g. when I click links in the reddit app.

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

#446

Post by gruez »

wkat4242 wrote: post #433
gruez wrote: post #295

Earlier 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.

For me the element blockers are the most important of all. It's not just about blocking ads. It's about making websites more usable. Ads are only one of those detrimental points. Many websites bombard you with big photos of their articles. I block all that with custom blocklists so the end result is a lot more like here at hacker news.

If you're talking about element blocking, that's still doable in manifest v3 with injected css elements. That's how it was done in manifest v2.

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

#448

Post by n_plus_1_acc »

bangaladore wrote: post #170
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/

Chromium has a concept of "user data directories" which in theory keep all data isolated to a single folder. You can use a launch parameter to specify what the user data directory you want to use is (so a shortcut). I'm pretty sure Firefox must have an equivalent.

It does, it's just called profiles. And they have a setting to always launch sthe profile selector on start.

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

#449

Post by TingPing »

crazygringo wrote: post #179
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.

For now. Advertisers now know ways to bypass all blockers for Chrome.

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

#450

Post by derkster »

gruez wrote: post #408
basisword wrote: post #392

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

YouTube has been playing a cat and mouse game, disabling some accounts until disabled, randomly re-enabling them. I personally think it's so when people talk about issues like this - people say "Well, it's been ok on my end". But it's definitely some kind of A/B testing.
Post reply on HN