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But is less capable than uBlock origin.
And also requires far less intrusive permissions.
Which is why it is far less effective
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
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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 ;)
In 2011, when I worked at Google (on ads, not on Chrome), I did use Firefox as my main browser. But back then, there was much less need for an ad blocker. I still remember asking my manager whether it was OK to click an ad (from a VPS provider) while browsing from the corporate desktop.
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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.
Or just accurately describing reality? UBOL is still blocking all the ads for me. It hasn't gone from 100% to 90%. It's still at 100%.
You have no idea if it is blocking the trackers or not.
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> Then they would let people contribute money to the browser People keep saying things like this, but the truth is that direct contributions to any ad-supported system contribute more like 1%-10% (at best) of their income. You are not the majority you think you are.
It does not have to be the majority. It would suffice to produce enough funds to continue developing Firefox, with full-time engineers, infrastructure, etc. The whole Mozilla foundation budget oscillated around $100-120M/y for last few years. Let's assume that half of it was dedicated to Firefox; e.g. $60M/y. It would take 500k users paying $120/y (aka $10/mo) to support their favorite browser. The current audience o…
> The whole Mozilla foundation budget oscillated around $100-120M/y for last few years.
Firefox is under corporation, not foundation. Mozilla Corporation expenses are $400M+, not $100M.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances
(I don't enough knowledge about freemium economics to figure out if the stated numbers would work out or not)
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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.
Guess I know what I'm deploying in my enterprise of one seat.
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Enterprise editions of Chrome continue to have manifest v2 support, so this doesn't necessarily affect Google employees.
Guess I know what I'm deploying in my enterprise of one seat.
If anyone finds a good guide, this would be a great place to share it.
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> kinda like running Windos applications in Wine Sometimes works better than on the original Windows? I assume that's not what you meant though :-)
I could have meant that. Doesn't Firefox sometimes work better than Chrome?
Oh yes, but Google products are notoriously worse on Firefox, if one is to believe the numerous comments on HN on the topic (although I haven't tried myself recently so I can't be quoted on this), and that interpretation doesn't sit well with your comment.
But you know better than anyone's else what you meant :-)
Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
#838I 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.
People didn't switch from IE to Chrome because it was better. They switched because it was MUCH, MUCH better. (And was part of the ecosystem, profiles, bookmarks, passwords, etc.) --- For better or worse, no such disparity exists currently.
I remember it being IE -> Firefox -> Chrome.
From where I was sitting, Firefox grew from word of mouth. Friends old friends, or simply installed it for them and said “trust me”. And people were shamed for using IE.
Over time Firefox started to feel more bloated, and Chrome was new, lean, and fast.
Chrome then went through its own bloat phase, and now this.
Browser monopolies have toppled before, through various means. I see no reason why it can’t happen again. Currently Apple is pretty much single handedly keeping Google from having total control, by only allowing WebKit on iOS.
I have a feeling people would be more likely to switch to a new player than to run back to an old one they left once before.
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macOS only
Linux is coming, but that still leaves Windows and Android (and iOS?) out.
There is an iOS version https://apps.apple.com/app/id1484498200
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And developers can play a part in reversing that. It seems like it might already be happening: | month | Chrome | Firefox | Safari | | -- | -- | -- | -- | | Jan '25 | -1.29 | +0.07 | +0.84 | | Feb '25 | -0.75 | +0.08 | +0.03 | Note: Edge is also gaining. They use Chromium but their stance on Manifest v3 is unclear to me. So far they don't seem to have any plans to deprecate v2 support I know these numbers seem tiny,…
> but if these trends were to continue Disco Stu has something to say about that
Hey, Disco Stu doesn’t advertise