I desperately want to pay for a browser that caters to me
Google is betting hundreds of billions of dollars against you being able to do that.
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
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#542Earlier quoted context omitted.
What sites don't work with FF?
Expedia doesn't render properly in Firefox - some of the sections are missing, but it's not immediately obvious what is missing. It took me a while to figure out why my wife kept having problems with that site, and I had to move her to Chrome to allow her to use it. I continue to use Firefox because I know when to suspect a website problem might be the browser, but she doesn't have the ability to analyze a situation…
Do you have Enhanced Tracking Protection on? It often blocks this kind of third party content
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#543I 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.
People didn't switch from IE to Chrome because it was better. They switched because it was MUCH, MUCH better. (And was part of the ecosystem, profiles, bookmarks, passwords, etc.) --- For better or worse, no such disparity exists currently.
They switched because Google bundled invisible Chrome installers in other software that would not only make its browser the default, but also invisibly steal IE clicks.
A move that was widely celebrated at the time.
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#544Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ad blocking is a must. In a world without MV3, you choose between ad infested sites or extensions with have the potential to harm your privacy. Now you don't. It's a win for normal users, at the expense of power users for whom declarative request blocking does not suffice.
There are plenty of other reasons to hate Google. This isn't one of them. Sacrificing the "power" desired by couple thousand HN users in return for the safety of couple millions of normal users is the right thing to do. Of course HN users will disagree; let's just see how badly this post will be downvoted. Downvotes won't change my opinion.
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#545I hope Mozilla realizes (and still cares) that they have a huge opportunity here to be the power-browser where you can get awesome extensions, unlike the locked-down and hobbled Chromium ecosystem. I suspect they do realize this because they've been really leaning into extensions recently, but over the years I've worried that Mozilla's committment to Firefox isn't as serious as I would like. Regardless, I'd love to s…
FF is supporting V2 and V3 on purpose, so they are doing what you want
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#546Earlier quoted context omitted.
If only their goal would be to provide an excellent privacy browser, instead of getting revenue :) All they need is to accept donations that go strictly to the browser and not to the latest blockchain/AI hysteria.
Name a project whose development costs as much as Firefox and that survives from donations. Many people want AI in their browser. And what does Firefox have to do with crypto?
Thunderbird is doing pretty good. They actually have a surplus in donations they have to get rid of. Yet Mozilla abandoned it and refuses still to accept donation for Firefox.
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#547Major DOJ Antitrust Cases 1. United States v. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (1911) - Duration: 7 years (1904–1911) - Outcome: Standard Oil was ruled an illegal monopoly and broken up into 34 companies. 2. United States v. Microsoft Corp. (1998) - Duration: 4 years (1998–2002) - Outcome: Initially ordered to split, but after appeals, Microsoft avoided a breakup and instead agreed to business restrictions. 3. United S…
And the DOJ is still holding that Google must break up
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#548But hey! We got command and commandfor in HTML! Progress, amirite?
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#549Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Don't they have a vetting process for extensions? No. > Even if they don't, you, the (power)user should be able to manually turn on whatever you want, should you so desire. It's not as simple as that. As long as it is possible for extensions to have no-holds-barred access to your browser then they'll make that a condition of use, and unsophisticated users (approximately everyone) will just say "eh ok". Browser exte…
> It's not as simple as that. As long as it is possible for extensions to have no-holds-barred access to your browser then they'll make that a condition of use, and unsophisticated users (approximately everyone) will just say "eh ok".
Then make it complicated enough so the user has to click through several screens, type in that they know what they're doing and be warned that if extension/website X asks them to do Y, they're getting f'd and should stop. Beyond that, it's their fault.
Why can't we treat browsers like we used to treat PCs? Why do we have to have to make them so "safe" like we did with phones? Tons of scams happen on phones now, so it didn't quite work out, but we still gave up a lot.
Personally, I'm rarely a Chrome user. I'm most afraid of stuff not working in non-Chromium browsers, though.
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#550Earlier quoted context omitted.
But is less capable than uBlock origin.
Not really. 90% of users won't notice a difference. Here's the feature diff. [0] [0] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
> Not really.
In general, uBOL will be less effective at dealing with websites using anti-content blocker or minimizing website breakage.