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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by keybored »

bad_user wrote: post #279
wussboy wrote: post #212

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I don't block ads on YouTube because I can't afford Premium.

You probably block ads on YouTube to get stuff for free. I never said that you can't afford it. (I'm using the royal you here, obviously, I don't know you) People rarely pay when there isn't scarcity. Wikimedia can pull it off because it has billions of unique visitors per month.

What’s your point? I’m past the point of caring about freeloading on/off Google of all companies.

I might care about the lesser cut that creators get. But not YouTube.

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

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Post by Pikamander2 »

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.

On the off chance that Google is truly benevolent and was just worried about users' security, then they could have easily hidden the required network-reading functionality behind a flag or "developer mode", or only allowed it for a small set of manually-audited extensions like uBlock Origin.

The fact that they provided absolutely none of these alternatives isn't a coincidence. Google is a for-profit company with 300+ billion of annual revenue, a giant chunk of which comes from their advertisement services. It's a blatant conflict of interest and there's no good reason to believe that they're acting in good faith here.

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Post by dredmorbius »

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 :)

Bypass the YT website entirely.

You can perform video search through DuckDuckGo, Invidious, or Piped.

The latter two are often blocked themselves, copy the video URL and feed to mpv to play through your preferred video player on the command-line:

https://mpv.io/>

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Post by 6SixTy »

vvpan wrote: post #478
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.

Wanted to note that uBlock works on Firefox mobile browser too - it is excellent.

Only the Android version has uBlock just fyi. Also, I've never been able to watch movies on a plane with Firefox mobile.

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

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Post by jrflowers »

hnpolicestate wrote: post #440
jrflowers wrote: post #406

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> He's opposed to […] government lockdowns during COVID > That is exactly who you want running your browser and search company Yes. “Does the CEO have strong opinions on public health? Are those opinions based more on public health fundamentals or is it vibes?” is the first line of inquiry I pursue when I am looking to download a program on the computer

No. You don't want someone who believes in vaccine passports and lockdowns running your browser if you truly value an open and free internet with roadblocks to tracking, fingerprinting etc. No CEO or developer is going to respect to software/hardware users if they believe that user should also use health verification software to go about public spaces. These are incompatible philosophies.

Exactly. When you want to use a program on the computer you want to make sure that the CEO of the company that makes it is very vocal about things completely unrelated to the computer. Like would you take your car to a mechanic who doesn’t post about the keto diet? Absolutely not. Would you buy a quiche from a man that does not have a dedicated page to perineum sunning? No one would, it would be insane to even consider such a purchase. Such a baker would be ostracized abd run out of business overnight

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Post by rockskon »

novemp wrote: post #453
fyrabanks wrote: post #311

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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?

Or maybe it's just popular? Recommend something else if you don't like it rather than just insinuating crap about people who do.

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Post by squarefoot »

bluescrn wrote: post #563
AstralSerenity wrote: post #198

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

How long will Mozilla be around for, though?

As long as Google pays them to remain alive to reinforce the narrative that Chrome isn't a monopoly.

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Post by ecuzzillo »

lostmsu wrote: post #153
ecuzzillo wrote: post #92

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You can't see all 50-70 tabs on a normal 27" monitor; Chrome will squish them almost indefinitely, and Firefox forces a large minimum tab width that makes the tab bar scroll forever and then you forget half the tabs you have going and everything's bad. I tried to switch and stopped because of this. I'll hang on until ubo really stops working, I guess, and then try to figure something else out.

There's a alternative: the dropdown menu with all tabs.

This doesn't fix the "you can't see all your tabs by just moving your eyes" problem, does it?
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