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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 efilife »

Aerroon wrote: post #417
freedomben wrote: post #16

I hope Mozilla realizes (and still cares) that they have a huge opportunity here to be the power-browser where you can get awesome extensions, unlike the locked-down and hobbled Chromium ecosystem. I suspect they do realize this because they've been really leaning into extensions recently, but over the years I've worried that Mozilla's committment to Firefox isn't as serious as I would like. Regardless, I'd love to s…

Can you install your own personal extensions without getting permission from Mozilla yet? Or are they still banning that? Because that change drove me away from Firefox.

You mean inatalling from local files? This isn't ever going away, we have to test what we develop somehow

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

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Post by crazygringo »

culi wrote: post #735
crazygringo wrote: post #179

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The adblockers still work on Chrome though. Pretty sure people are figuring out to switch to uBlock Origin Lite and ads -- including on YouTube -- are still being blocked just fine.

They can still block elements from appearing on your browser but in the background the network calls are still being made. That means you are no longer being protected from tracking and your internet is once again being slowed down by the loading of ads

That's not true. The requests themselves are blocked:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/d...

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

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Post by crazygringo »

culi wrote: post #733
crazygringo wrote: post #115

Fortunately, at least so far, uBlock Origin Lite works perfectly fine on Chrome. I know people have made a lot of arguments as to why it might not be as good in theory, or why things might change in the future. But so far, ever since I was forced to switch, I have seen exactly zero difference. Lists are updated often enough that I haven't seen anything get through. Adblocking works on YouTube. If anything, pages seem…

If you have fast internet you will probably not really notice the difference The difference between v2 and v3 is that v3 will no longer allow uBlock to modify network calls. Previously one of the big savings of a adblocker is they can stop the calls from being made AT ALL. That means less tracking AND less of your internet bandwidth being used Both v2 and v3 can block the actual elements from your screen so you will…

That's wrong.

V3 doesn't allow network calls to be modified, for privacy reasons. It still allows them to be blocked, which is how the adblocking works in the first place.

Contrary to what you say, v3 does block the tracking in the ad request as well as the bandwidth.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/d...

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

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Post by johnklos »

AstralSerenity wrote: post #198
gruez wrote: post #150

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>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.

...so long as you're not in a market where they automatically opt you in to sending all your DNS requests to a for-profit company without asking, and if you are, you remember to set up a canary domain or go and update your settings for every new install and new profile.

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

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Post by tharkun__ »

justsid wrote: post #755
ethan_smith wrote: post #729

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Been using uBlock Origin for so long I forgot what the raw internet actually looks like. Spent 3 minutes without an ad blocker last week when setting up a new machine and nearly lost my mind. Google knows exactly what they're taking away from us - a usable web. They've just decided that our sanity is less valuable than their ad revenue. https://programmerhumor.io/programming-memes/browsing-withou... I feel really bad…

What boggles my mind is the fact that surely people working for Google also use Chrome. Are they not up in arms internally because of how awful the web is without ad blocker? I have the same experience as you, every time I set up a new machine or watch friends/relatives browse the web, it just blows my mind how bad the unfiltered internet is.

I wouldn't be surprised if the people that did care about that internally at Google either used something like Firefox or had their private build that can run uBlock or similar ;)

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

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Post by tomrod »

NegativeK wrote: post #747
tomrod wrote: post #294

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Indeed. Kagi proves users are willing to pay for search (me included, recently).

Someone in an infosec podcast recently summed up the whole situation far better than I've been able to: The vast majority of people won't pay for privacy. Some people will pay for search. Some people will pay for content. It's really not many, though. Can you imagine if effectively everything on the internet was paywalled? I sure as hell don't know what the solution is, but we wouldn't've gotten to this spot right no…

I appreciate your thoughts.

I have loved Kagi's "small web" where I find interesting items, almost like stumbleupon. It reminded me that not every site on the internet is optimizing for eyeballs.

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

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Post by tharkun__ »

Mawr wrote: post #707
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!

Oh, people just don't understand the value of default settings. It's a constant theme even on this forum.

It's really surprising but also not.

Defaults is exactly how Microsoft has been getting away with everything they did for forever. Anti-trust investigations? Irrelevant if you can just make it configurable but the default is Microsoft.

Most people don't change default settings unless prompted and guided. And adding a setting shuts up most of "us" coz we'll just change it.

The only reason they're remove the ability to configure something would've been if too many of us change the settings for too many of our friends and relatives for it to register negatively on their end and they'd try to get away with not allowing it to be configured / hiding it as much as possible until they actually get anti-trust investigated // convicted (Re: requiring Windows to ask if you want to install other browsers than Internet Explorer).

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

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Post by wyclif »

igilism wrote: post #460
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…

What blocker do you use? I don’t have these problems with AdGuard in Safari

In Safari, how is AdGuard better than AdBlock?
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