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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by wussboy »

glenstein wrote: post #375
drpossum wrote: post #253

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Then they wouldn't be throwing money into open firepits on trash like a VPN service or how to comply with Google's advertising decisions. Then they would let people contribute money to the browser (instead of to Mozilla Foundation which goes to enabling aforementioned trash fires) and to the salary of a multi-million dollar CEO after laying off developer staff and hiring more C-suite assistants. Mozilla is a bad orga…

>Then they wouldn't be throwing money into open firepits on trash like a VPN service It's pants-on-head level of crazy talk to suggest that the VPN service is compromising Mozilla's finances. It's a re-wrapped Mullvad VPN that probably was not expensive to roll out (it being inexpensive to deploy is probably precisely the reason they moved forward with it). It's like people are just workshopping arguments where they…

This kind of thinking appears to be prevalent. "Firefox does one specific thing which I construe as evil. Therefore I use the competitor which also does this thing, plus dozens of others which are anti-competitive and generally destructive to the ecosystem."

"The coleslaw in the Jedi salad bar has raisins. Therefore I joined the Sith. Their coleslaw also has raisins."

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Post by paulryanrogers »

carlosjobim wrote: post #511
h4x0rr wrote: post #492

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This way you're missing out on specific js patches for sites with hard to block ads (like YouTube)

That's a special case, which can be solved by buying YouTube premium. For general ad-blocking, the DNS filters work great.

What incentives does this enforce in the market? Strangling smaller players and reinforcing the dominant ones.

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Post by antisthenes »

mrkramer wrote: post #341
caseyy wrote: post #142

The new uBlock Origin Lite is compatible with Manifest v3 and has the featured flag on the Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...

Lite version works for me the same as the original. Blocks majority of ads.

Slippery slope corporate apologism.

It's like a corporation shrinking the package size of your food by 10%, keeping the price the same and then claiming you still get the "majority" of the food.

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Post by atum47 »

atum47 wrote: post #468

On kinda related news: Firefox don't allow you to set the default homepage. What's up with that?

I've moved from chrome to ff because of ublock extension, but I also have an app that remembers of stuff set as my default homepage, the other day I realized that ff don't allow for a custom home page. That why I left the comment above, I think they are somewhat related

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Post by gruez »

jnathsf wrote: post #554
basisword wrote: post #392

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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…

Suggest using a service like NextDNS or Pi-hole for DYI ad blocking at the DNS/network level. I started with pi-hole but the hassle of updates and most importantly not having it available outside of my home network pushed me to a service like NextDNS which works on any network (5G, work, etc)

If you think manifest v3's adblocking is bad, DNS-based adblockers (eg. NextDNS or Pi-hole) is even worse. It can't do any filtering based on urls or elements, so any first party ads will be able to get through.

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Post by ge96 »

garciasn wrote: post #71
ge96 wrote: post #22

Is it actually gone? I thought they just put that warning. I just re-enabled the one already installed on my devices. Once it's legit gone gone though yeah I'm going to Firefox or use Edge for web dev stuff Edit: I will say I am a hypocrite though I am trying to build a following by posting on YouTube... I don't control the ads on there, maybe you do when you are monetizable but yeah sucks I feel bad for the viewers.…

I re-enabled it last week but they forced removed it again days later. I re-enabled it by force and it's still working, but it won't be for much longer, I'm certain. https://www.neowin.net/guides/google-turned-off-ublock-in-ch... This URL, shared elsewhere in this thread, seems to tell you how to get it back up and running if you cannot do it easily; that said, I'll be moving to FF if they continue their shenanigans.

what does sock I've written a few of my own extensions and they're manifest v2 ugh... but thankfully I was able to turn them back on

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Post by Beijinger »

lelandbatey wrote: post #586
noname120 wrote: post #255

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https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

Wow, the big one to my eyes is the 'removeparam=' which allowed uBlock to strip out parameters (e.g. tracking parameters) from the request, allowing you to visit e.g. affiliate links without being tracked as coming from a specific affiliate (if the affiliate info was in the query params at least). Stuff like that is really amazing, I'm glad that here on FireFox we've still got the full uBlock Origin.

I would have said, use ClearURLs, but it is blocked too: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clearurls/lckanjgmi...

Socialfixer won't work anymore too.

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Post by keybits »

betaby wrote: post #138
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.

Could you please tell me what "Youtube-blocking Safari extensions" are you referring? Are they MacOS only or can be installed on IPad? Thanks!

I can recommend Wipr 2 - excellent blocker from a great developer. I've now switched to Safari for all my YouTube watching. Universal purchase works on macOS, ipadOS and iOS.

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Post by gruez »

wkat4242 wrote: post #473
gruez wrote: post #446

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If you're talking about element blocking, that's still doable in manifest v3 with injected css elements. That's how it was done in manifest v2.

Is it? I didn't realise. I always use Firefox anyway. So which part isn't possible now? JavaScript injection? Ps changed the term to avoid confusion, thanks!

>So which part isn't possible now?

The webRequestBlocking api, which allows the extension to inspect all request/responses in real time and act on them. With manifest v3 the extension can only supply a list of expressions to block, and the expressions that can be used is very limited.

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Post by gorhill »

kolanos wrote: post #378
judge2020 wrote: post #237

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And ublock origin lite works just fine for me

Not working as well on YouTube. The ad is blocked, but you still need to skip it. You didn't need to do this with UBO.

It's working fine on Youtube in Optimal mode. If you have still issue, you will have to go through self-diagnosing steps[1] to rule out all the myriad other ways you suffer such issues -- most commonly another extension is interfering negatively.

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/27415

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