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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 duffyjp »

crazygringo wrote: post #515
duffyjp wrote: post #489

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Same. I use the element picker tool all the time to rid the web of crap I don't care about. Example: whatever_class:has-text(/YouTube Shorts/) On Android you can even do this on your phone in Firefox. The UI is a bit tricky on such a small device, but it's so worth it. I went so far as to uninstall Chrome (well, disable it) on my Android.

Does "Click to Remove Element" not work for you? https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/click-to-remove-ele... For whatever reason, the UBOL creator chose not to include zapper/picker in order to make it as "lite" as possible. It wasn't a Manifest v3 thing, as they've explained. I have no problem with using a separate extension for zapping.

I was not aware of this extension, thanks for pointing it out.

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

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Post by RamRodification »

jesuslop wrote: post #537
drdec wrote: post #35

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My problem with extensions is it's another development team to trust and monitor. I need to know if the extension has been sold, taken over by a new lead, etc.

Yep while this manifest v3 ugly thing is putting me on the brink of jumping ship (I compromise by having two browsers), as for your concern I found that Chrome is going to allow blacklisting extensions for sites, so now I can turn them off for the few sites that I really worry to grant extension read access. chrome://flags, "Extensions Menu Access Control" flag. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-extensions-menu-t…

If you are fine with two browsers, maybe you could instead look into separate Firefox profiles with different sets of extensions. I have added "-p" to my Firefox shortcut so it always starts with the profile picker thing.

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

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Post by Funes- »

Just use Brave if you can't be bothered to use some extremely ethical alternative that's harder to set up. It blocks everything out of the box. Now, if you do worry about supporting more ethical browsers, try qutebrowser (with some greasemonkey scripts added in).

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

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Post by kibae »

homebrewer wrote: post #346
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.

> install uBlock Origin in Brave There's no need to do it, their built-in adblocker supports the same rule lists. https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

I switched to Brave last week after the whole Firefox fiasco. I installed uBlock Origin after there were some ads that got through.

e.g. on DuckDuckGo.

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

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Post by 1oooqooq »

jonas21 wrote: post #664
Fluorescence wrote: post #278

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People scratch their heads about how "just a default setting" can be worth an annual $20 billion payment from Google. It makes more sense if it's actually for a raft of wildly illegal under-the-table measures this. Imagine what it would cost Google's bottom line if Apple was truly user-focused and enabled ad-blocking on desktop, mobile and embedded safari views by default. Someone do the napkin math please!

It's a revenue share deal where Google pays Apple 36% of the search revenue they get from Safari users [1]. In other words, Google pays Apple ~$20B per year to be default search engine because they make ~$53B in revenue from those searches. This is profitable for both Apple and Google -- no "wildly illegal under-the-table measures" required. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/apple-gets-36percent-of-goog...

ah the advertising ecosystem.

even when an outsider tries to think of the nastiest scam, an insider shows up to explain the boring day to day is already worse.

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

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Post by niedzielski »

Funes- wrote: post #673

Just use Brave if you can't be bothered to use some extremely ethical alternative that's harder to set up. It blocks everything out of the box. Now, if you do worry about supporting more ethical browsers, try qutebrowser (with some greasemonkey scripts added in).

Brave has a history of very concerning behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers....

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

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Post by warkdarrior »

gkbrk wrote: post #510
crazygringo wrote: post #154

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Performance. For faster page loads. uBlock Origin Lite still blocks ads on Chrome, but it's faster than uBlock Origin. I don't expect Google's ad revenue has changed meaningfully at all, assuming people switch to uBlock Origin Lite.

It blocks less ads, it's not surprising that it's faster.

I thought the browser would be faster when blocking more ads, not fewer ads.

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

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Post by Miraste »

mrandish wrote: post #593
bluescrn wrote: post #563

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How long will Mozilla be around for, though?

If the Google, Pocket and other ad money dries up, Mozilla the company may go away but the Firefox browser itself will continue on because it's open source. As an exclusively Firefox user for over 20 years, I suspect if Mozilla the company dies, it will won't negatively impact Firefox much, at least in any meaningful way. In fact, the browser may be somewhat better off managed like the Blender or MAME projects. In th…

Do you think the open source community is capable of maintaining Firefox without Mozilla? I find that doubtful. Even if they did, without Mozilla, Cloudflare and friends would start trying to kill Firefox like they do to other independent browsers.

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

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Post by RamRodification »

jmuguy wrote: post #86

Related if anyone is switching over. I like to run Firefox Developer Edition[0] as my "work" browser, with work related bookmarks, etc. and then regular Firefox for nonwork. This makes it really easy to keep the two separate. I know there's a lot of ways to segment within the same browser but this works well for me. [0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

You can achieve the same (or similar) thing with Firefox profiles. Just launch with "-p" and it'll give you a profile picker. You can have a work profile with separate extensions, bookmarks, settings, etc.

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

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Post by derkades »

portpecos wrote: post #666
nine_k wrote: post #569

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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…

>I use Firefox + uBlock Origin Wasn’t Mozilla accused of selling data they collected from Firefox users? Correct me if I’m wrong.

Even with all the drama Firefox is still an excellent browser, definitely better for privacy and uBlock than Chrome.
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