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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by glenstein »

FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #381
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 $…

If it costs $200 million a year to develop Firefox, then their management team is guilty of gross incompetence. I am betting this is really paying for the crappy side projects and HUGE pay for the Mozilla Foundation people (just like all the BS spending the Wikimedia foundation does) and has nothing to do with Firefox itself.

Maintaining a fully compliant, secure, cross-platform web browser that competes with the biggest companies on earth absolutely is going to have costs like that.

I think Mozilla Foundation receives something like 5 to 10%. I'm not against the argument that foundations can be bloated and inefficient, but at this point, this anti Mozilla narrative is completely out of control and almost purely speculation driven.

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

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Post by asadotzler »

inertiatic wrote: post #57
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 use Firefox as my main browser and it's not a viable alternative to Chrome if you have the very common usage pattern of keeping tens of tabs open.

1,740 tabs open right now on my wife's Firefox and it seems to be operating just fine. Sounds like something's wrong with your Firefox. I recommend a refresh which can be found under about:support

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

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Post by jay_kyburz »

marricks wrote: post #196
sneak wrote: post #162

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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.

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.

How is your company forcing you to use gmail any worse than your company forcing you to use outlook? Is it your company that is making the world shit, or google.

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

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Post by the_af »

sorenKaram wrote: post #444

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?

Wasn't Adblock Plus the plugin to be shunned because they allowed certain ads as long as the advertisers paid them money? I remember a scandal like that a few years ago, but I might be mistaken since there are many similarly named plugins.

uBlock Origin didn't have this problem, which is why it got recommended so much.

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

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Post by glenstein »

drpossum wrote: post #371
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 $…

I think it's unfair to call Ladybird vaporware this early. There's nothing suspicious about their development schedule for the scope of the thing they're trying to build. I agree I don't think it should be in the alternative browser discussion until they do produce something, however.

And also, I think there's a positive to say about Lady Bird here, which is that in the event they succeed, that's as much a narrative about an extraordinarily talented and committed developer, And if they're able to put forward a credible browser, it will be a soaring achievement for them. Not necessarily something I would expect as a kind of default status quo expectation.

I think if you get these alternative from the ground up browsers, you get extremely limited things like Net Surf, noble efforts that I respect, but not going against the billions of dollars Google can throw into modern browser development.

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Post by haarolean »

eYrKEC2 wrote: post #128

Brave, fork of Chrome. https://brave.com/ Ignore the crypto; enjoy the integrated ad-blocking. Most seamless ad-blocking I've ever experienced.

Yeah, ignore the crypto and tons of other stuff about phoning home or doing malicious 'oopsies' things.

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

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Post by pmdr »

IshKebab wrote: post #394
pmdr wrote: post #356

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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.

It's not about you being able to do whatever you want on your machine. It's extension authors being able to. Malicious Chrome extensions are a huge problem.

Don't they have a vetting process for extensions? Even if they don't, you, the (power)user should be able to manually turn on whatever you want, should you so desire. What's stunning is that we're moving away from this, for our "security." And by then "use Firefox/something else" won't be helpful when entire websites will refuse to work on anything else but Chrome.

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

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Post by tomrod »

haarolean wrote: post #456
tomrod wrote: post #318

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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.

Looking forward to their Linux port. I should have added FF/Vivaldi to the list.

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

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Post by the_af »

crazygringo wrote: post #144
whstl wrote: post #79

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If it’s anything like Safari’s declarative blocklists: Ad blocking on Youtube. Youtube-blocking Safari extensions “solve” Youtube blocking by using non-declarative APIs that need full access to Youtube. Apple seems ok with that so far, but the APIs are not as goods, so their success rate is limited. Whether Google will allow new extensions that block Youtube remains to be seen.

> Ad blocking on Youtube. uBlock Origin Lite blocks all ads on YouTube for me.

> uBlock Origin Lite blocks all ads on YouTube for me.

Someone else is saying uBlock Origin Lite leaves a "skippable blank" where the ad used to be, while I know for a fact uBlock Origin completely and transparently skipped over the ad.

Could you confirm?

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