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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 FuriouslyAdrift »

glenstein wrote: post #461
FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #381

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it costs $200 million a year to develop Firefox, then their management team is guilty of gross incompetence. I am betting this is really paying for the crappy side projects and HUGE pay for the Mozilla Foundation people (just like all the BS spending the Wikimedia foundation does) and has nothing to do with Firefox itself.

Maintaining a fully compliant, secure, cross-platform web browser that competes with the biggest companies on earth absolutely is going to have costs like that. I think Mozilla Foundation receives something like 5 to 10%. I'm not against the argument that foundations can be bloated and inefficient, but at this point, this anti Mozilla narrative is completely out of control and almost purely speculation driven.

They spent $35 million in 2022 to establish a venture capital fund... they are definitely using a lot more than 10% for BS not related to developing Firefox.

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

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Post by chrome111 »

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.

If you've never used an ad blocker, I guess it may just be the normal web rather than anything terrible. Because ad blocking isn't illegal, it may not be quite as bad as a Disney employee pirating all their movies, but I suspect it's still not that common (at least most people I knew while there didn't use one, and of course I was happy to install one again the day after leaving).

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

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Post by carlosjobim »

lolinder wrote: post #713
carlosjobim wrote: post #700

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At the moment it has only proven that 0.00000000001% of users are willing to pay for search.

That's enough to be (apparently) profitable. It doesn't matter if most people don't pay for search as long as enough people do that paid search can exist. https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi

Agreed. But let's not say that it's evidence that "people" in the aggregate are willing to pay for web search.

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

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Post by crazygringo »

ycombinatrix wrote: post #833
crazygringo wrote: post #643

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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.

You didn't have any idea with uBlock Origin either.

But since the very first blocklist UBOL uses is decribed as "Ads, trackers, miners, and more" I assume it's also blocking them just fine. The same way I assumed with UBO.

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

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Post by crazygringo »

culi wrote: post #807
crazygringo wrote: post #762

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That's not true. The requests themselves are blocked: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/d...

Lol yeah with a max number of rules being 50 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... But declarativeNetRequest is the alternative to the webRequest API which Chrome is removing. Using declarativeNetRequest means you have to rely on static rules instead of the dynamic logic that the webRequest API allowed. This is extremely trivial to bypass. So much so that it's basically nothing at all. Espec…

I try to assume good intentions, but at this point you seem to be simply trying to spread misinformation, and I don't know why.

The maximum number of rule sets is 50, not rules, as your own link clearly and unambiguously states.

The actual minimum (not maximum) number of supported rules is 30,000:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

In reality, Chrome supports over 10x that. And UBOL doesn't even use/need the minimum, sticking to around 17,000.

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

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Post by zamalek »

vemv wrote: post #223

What's the best next choice if I don't want to move away from a Chrome-like experience? (Old habits die hard) There's https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium - is it a sound choice nowadays?

After the enterprise grace period the code will be deleted from the project. You can expect a fork to appear that patches it back in (I doubt ungoogled chromium would be where that is done), but eventually that will become a nontrivial process. You have a year, maybe two. There are many chromium-based browsers that have built-in blocking.

The Firefox UI is honestly very close to chrome.

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

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Post by hipsterstal1n »

jordanb wrote: post #188
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…

> 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, The problem is that Mozilla's customers are not Firefox's users. Mozilla's customer is Google. They pay Mozilla to exist and they are paying Mozilla to intentionally drive Firefox into the ground. I think it's pretty clear that the TOS change basically coincided with the rem…

> They pay Mozilla to exist and they are paying Mozilla to intentionally drive Firefox into the ground.

Come on, that is just crazy talk. I get that Mozilla has made some boneheaded decisions but this is baseless conjecture.

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

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Post by kingnothing »

robin_reala wrote: post #285
kingnothing wrote: post #109

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Firefox works great with dozens of open tabs. The only thing Chrome has going for it is tab groups. Firefox has Tab Style Tree, which is a decent substitute.

Tab groups landed in Firefox Nightly 3 months ago,[1] I‘d expect them pretty soon in the release version. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1938187

Oh, amazing! Thanks for sharing

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

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Post by hipsterstal1n »

eviks wrote: post #782
efilife wrote: post #761

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

It already went away, you need a special Firefox version to do that (that's the somehow part)

This is just flat out wrong. I am on regular Firefox and can install extensions from files.

See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/find-and-install-add-on... and look under "How do I find and install add-ons?" > "For Advanced User"

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