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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 phendrenad2 »

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #497
ltbarcly3 wrote: post #143

I switched to firefox a few months ago because of this. However, I just switched back last week. Overall firefox is a better browser. The ability to screenshot in the browser is so useful and I used it 10x per day, not having it in chrome is a real pain. But.. nobody tests on it anymore I think. Lots of popular sites are very slow and laggy with it, including sites I need for work. I don't think this is because of in…

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We really need a Slashdot-style meta-moderation system. Certain things always get brigaded, especially anything about the relative merits of browsers. It would be nice to flag people who only show up to downvote and reduce their impact.

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

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Post by keybored »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #131
sneak wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue I have is not that they did it; it’s that they lied about why. Chrome is their project, they should be free to do whatever they want with it. People can use a different browser if they wish (I do). This whole “better for users” bullshit is why I don’t respect Google as a company. Don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining.

Where I live, Google rented out a huge Billboard to advertise Chrome, and it cites Chrome as "the world's most trusted browser" I LOL every time I see it. Imagine the lengths they have to go to, to try to make people trust a product they have.

Like Chomsky said: (corporate) propaganda is incredibly widespread but about an ankle deep.

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

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Post by bluescrn »

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.

How long will Mozilla be around for, though?

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

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Post by IvanAchlaqullah »

indrora wrote: post #364
lousken wrote: post #355

This was to be expected, however I am curious if Vivaldi, Brave and others will make their own webstore which will have plugins like ublock origin, and how long till Mozilla follows suit.

Google aggressively makes it hard for Chromium derivatives to not conform to Google's engineering choices. They could try and keep manifestv2 support for a while, but they will have an increasingly large and hard to support patch se to make manifestv2 work still.

Indeed. When I tried to add LibRedirect (another extensions that are not possible under Manifest v3) to Vivaldi, DNS over HTTPS suddenly stopped working.

After checking the settings page, the settings to turn it on are completely disabled. Turn out this is one of few trap in all Chromioum browser that are hardcoded by Google.

Well after searching, you need to edit registry (yikes!) and add "DnsOverHttpsMode" and set it to "safe". Problem solved, right?

NO!!! Do that and suddenly your browser wouldn't load any page at all! Turn out you also need to set "DnsOverHttpsTemplates" too.

It just so happen, somehow, there is no documentation that mention this in "....Mode" help page.

Surely Google is not being evil in here, right? Right?

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

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Post by keybored »

iAMkenough wrote: post #29
colordrops wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People have come to accept dishonesty and sociopathy from corporations as normal and even acceptable unfortunately.

I view it as a symptom of the broader effort to villify the fourth estate and condition people to act(vote) on their emotions rather than a rational look at verifiable facts.

Villifying normal people is more nefarious.

But who told you that there is a Fourth Estate? Was it the very “Fourth Estate”?

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Post by Chaosvex »

the_af wrote: post #464
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.

You're not mistaken. They had a default enabled whitelist of advertisers that were paying them to be there. Basically a racket.

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

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Post by bhrlady »

There are only two business models on the web: either you pay for your browser, or someone else does. This is why Orion is entirely user-funded, and can continue serving users by prioritizing privacy, control, and features like powerful, built-in ad-blocking. Not third party deals, ads, or any other incentive to corrupt the user experience and overall quality.

(Disclosure, I work for Kagi, creator of the Orion browser.)

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Post by nine_k »

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…

If I go to buy something, I switch off ad blocking on that page, at the very least, on the checkout page. Ads can even be actually relevant there.

If the page is too ad-ridden to tolerate, I may consider to just close that page, and go search for other options.

I use Firefox + uBlock Origin, because going to the wide commercial internet without some form of ad blocking is like going out without an umbrella when it's raining heavily.

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Post by carlosjobim »

sneak wrote: post #162
marricks wrote: post #148

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> Chrome is their project, they should be free to do whatever they want with it. Google has a long history of "accidentally" breaking gmail on firefox and funneling users to Chrome back in the day. It's beyond stupid to argue they should be able to do whatever they want with their vertically integrated monopoly. Like, if you want to dig holes in your own driveway sure whatever, but if you own all the roads in Detroit…

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.

You're behind with the times, words have new meanings

Organizations I don't like = Monopoly!

Organizations I like = ...

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