Note that Google Chrome contains features that allow sharing your interests with advertisers and "measuring" ads performance. It looks more and more as ad browsing client rather than a web browser: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/13355898
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#602Brave, 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.
For the unaware: https://old.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_b...
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#603Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my testing, UBO Lite is not working as well on YouTube. It blocks the ad, but you still have to skip it. Original UBO didn't require this.
Yea but, I think its a bit misplaced to be angry at Google for this. Surely its the content creators that place the ads in their content to blame for this. I don't understand why they ads are not spliced into the stream. It would be undetectable by extensions at all.
Because ads are auctioned in nanoseconds. This isn't the newspaper were everyone saw the same as which was vetted by the editors.
You are seeing different ads than your neighbour. Everything is automated to cost as little money as possible.
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#604If are unfortunate enough to still use Chrome, please read:
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#605Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit... I migrated off Chrome as soon as this BS story about improving privacy, a joke coming from Google. Then the excuse was "well it improves performance", which they could easily do by marking extensions as low performance. If Google wanted to improve this they have an entire search engine where they could re-ran…
I don't think killing actual, effective ad-blocking was the sole motivation of moving to Manifest V3, but it was certainly a nice side effect that was hard to resist.
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#606Earlier quoted context omitted.
But does it support blocking JavaScript, large media elements, social widgets, and fonts?
Yes, you can block elements directly from the context menu. I use it all the time on Reddit. There's also built in blocking under brave://settings/shields for Javascript and social features. It doesn't have a specific feature to block fonts AFAIK but it does have fingerprint protection if that's your concern.
Brave's adblocker supports the standard `$font` resource type modifier on adblock rules as well.
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#607Consider discontinuing the use of Google, AWS/Amazon, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and ChatGPT if you value freedom. There are numerous excellent alternatives available.
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#608I 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.
What's in Chrome that they are so used to? I use Vivaldi, Chrome, Firefox on every day basis, and can barely see a difference.
Bookmarks, history, generally historical reliability, and (biggest reason for me) password manager.
I rarely have to type/remember passwords anymore on Android or web and it "just works". I know there are password managers out there that ostensibly handle the password-saving thing and are browser-agnostic but when I tried it in the past I had issues on some sites and, when it did work, it felt clunkier.
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#610Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gentoo user here: all the time. Worst part is that Firefox depends on NodeJS which takes a good day to compile on my 2c/4t 3250U.
The NodeJS dependency is purely for running some tests. You shouldn't need it to actually build Firefox.
If that was the case I'm sure someone would've turned it into a test-only dependency in gentoo.