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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 wruza »

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.

Heh, sometimes you feel pressed between “but it’s just a default” and “who uses settings anyway”. Because the first group is blind and deaf to network effects of a default and the second to the fact that workflows and preferences differ.

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

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Post by EasyMark »

moritonal wrote: post #542
venusenvy47 wrote: post #330

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Expedia doesn't render properly in Firefox - some of the sections are missing, but it's not immediately obvious what is missing. It took me a while to figure out why my wife kept having problems with that site, and I had to move her to Chrome to allow her to use it. I continue to use Firefox because I know when to suspect a website problem might be the browser, but she doesn't have the ability to analyze a situation…

Do you have Enhanced Tracking Protection on? It often blocks this kind of third party content

I always turn off firefox's blockers and just use ublock origin with a few more lists like the annoyance and cookie lists

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

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Post by EasyMark »

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/

I just use multicontainers extension for that sort of thing. It keeps them siloed off from each other. Great for having multiple accounts on sites like bsky and reddit as well.

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

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Post by somenameforme »

fyrabanks wrote: post #311
AstralSerenity wrote: post #198

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

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.

Brave has a native adblocker that lets basically nothing through, though it can be configured as desired. Crypto stuff is opt-in, though there is a little monochrome button for it on the browser that one can disable with a right click.

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

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Post by freeamz »

ethan_smith wrote: post #739
sfblah wrote: post #695

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This is the most important question. What's the best practice? Firefox? Something else?

If you're looking to move away from Chrome, Firefox + uBlock Origin is still your best bet IMO. Mozilla's committed to keeping the robust ad-blocking capabilities alive despite Google's changes. Brave is decent too if you want something Chromium-based but more privacy-focused (comes with minor controversies). Safari works well if you're in the Apple ecosystem. I actually run a dual-browser setup these days - Firefox…

Librewolf is also pretty good, better privacy than Firefox. If you using firefox, might as well just use that instead.

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

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Post by wruza »

wyclif wrote: post #770
igilism wrote: post #460

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

In Safari, how is AdGuard better than AdBlock?

Apparently, it doesn’t have the described issues. I also use AdGuard on iOS/Safari and see only occasionally desperate ads. I expect ad networks to target this with mv3-hard methods now that it will become widespread, but up until now it just worked.

Apple and google did everything for you to not know about it. It’s not the first thread where people either don’t know about it or will read but won’t try.

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

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Post by lern_too_spel »

culi wrote: post #808
crazygringo wrote: post #763

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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...

It only allows them to be blocked with static rulesets. And these rulesets have a maximum size of 50. There's no way this is large enough to cover all your websites. It's also trivial for an anti-adblock script to try a few different urls until it finds one that isn't in your static ruleset https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

330k. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

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

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Post by ycombinatrix »

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.

Enterprise editions of Chrome continue to have manifest v2 support, so this doesn't necessarily affect Google employees.

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

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Post by rogual »

eru wrote: post #781
mrgoldenbrown wrote: post #744

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You linked to a crappy copy of an XKCD comic. Here's the orginal. https://xkcd.com/624/

Thanks for the link to the original. Well the crappy copy does come with some extra text. (No judgement from me on whether the extra text improves the comic here; just that someone might think it does, and there's no arguing about taste.) It's also interesting to see that XKCD itself explicitly supports eg hotlinking, and the license makes putting it into your own crappy creations rather easy. (Though I think the exa…

They even edited the image to insert their own name.
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