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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 carlosjobim »

AstralSerenity wrote: post #198
gruez wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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".

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

It's easy to block ads on an entire system DNS level, instead of using browser plugins.

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

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Post by gruez »

epiecs wrote: post #443
gruez wrote: post #408

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>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 :)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...

There's also a new extension that was posted on hn a few weeks that's free and claims to have scriptlets to block youtube ads as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406#43208085

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

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Post by novemp »

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.

Another day, another subtle insinuation that Brave is the only Chrome fork anyone uses. Are you people being paid to do this?

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

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Post by kenanfyi »

As a person who switched constantly between browsers (except Chrome, never used it after 2015) in the past 10+ years, I can confirm that realigning the habits are not that difficult. Learn to use the web, not the tool to browse it.

So, switch to something which has privacy respecting attitude or at least tries to have it and ditch everything who does not. It is not just the browser itself, but also the services and tools that you use to do your job: browsing. After some time, you will realize how horrible browsing the web with Chrome was in this respect and how easy it is to just browse the web without a bloated piece of advertising machine.

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

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Post by haarolean »

tomrod wrote: post #318
freedomben wrote: post #18

I blacklisted Chrome in dnf (the Fedora system update manager) once we hit near the last version to allow manifest v2, but apparently it wasn't enough. They reached in to my system and deactivated/deleted my manifest v2 extensions anyway regardless, even though my version still "supports" them. I'm quite displeased to say the least. Ultimately it's probably for the best though as now my "slow fade" plan has to be acc…

Proton and Kagi have most of the services I've personally needed to de-Google. GCP is nicer than AWS, so will probably keep that around as a paying customer. Only thing I haven't found a great replacement yet for Google Docs (MS office is abysmal, but also lack of testing of alternatives so far :) ).

I love Kagi's Orion but it's still not good enough yet to switch off chrome completely. You realize this once you delve deeper, install extensions, and use it as your daily driver.

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Post by jbverschoor »

redox99 wrote: post #299
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 just a matter of time. Now that anti adblocks are way more effective, they'll become common.

LLM/AI had perfect timing

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

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Post by jstummbillig »

zanellato19 wrote: post #121
jstummbillig wrote: post #50

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They had the market position and option to do that for years now. "Told you so" whenever a patterns matches, and ignoring the times when it does not instead of providing a good model that encompasses both, is a fairly lame way to reason about the world.

The position is always, Google's position is so strong they can do whatever they want even if it isn't beneficial to users, this confirms that. I'm not sure the "they could have abused this sooner" defense is a good one.

The point is, that always looking for abuse is maybe not the right model to explain what is really going on.

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

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Post by igilism »

basisword wrote: post #392
gruez wrote: post #295

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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…

What blocker do you use? I don’t have these problems with AdGuard in Safari
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