Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

chromewebstore.google.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

951–960 of 1001 posts

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

#951

Post by winwang »

opan wrote: post #691
winwang wrote: post #477

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As much as I dislike their Chrome practices, I am rather against the idea of forcing them to sell Chrome. For one, they simply have had a better product, at least in the past. Part of their large monopoly is due to just being better outright for a large portion of users (presumably). Are we to punish making overly-good products? For another, sell to whom? And why would they be a good steward? And yet another, there's…

>Did Google have to open Chromium? No. Google did not make Chromium from scratch, and so were obligated to use a license compatible with the previous source they used. That source can be traced back to KDE's Konqueror browser and its KHTML engine.

Thank you, this type of info is pretty much exactly what I hoped to learn :D

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

#952

Post by xyzabc098123 »

Im genuinely curious, with all these bashing going around. How is it the fault of ads vendors when website/webapp publishers are the ones that put ads on them?

Like one day Wikipedia inserts ads on their pages to keep the lights on. We bash Google for blocking uBlock?

I feel like I'm missing out on something. Please help me understand.

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

#955

Post by lukasgraf »

djhn wrote: post #836
mh- wrote: post #835

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

On macOS:

  # defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist ExtensionManifestV2Availability -int 2
This will continue to allow MV2 extensions for your Chrome instance. Confirm the policy has been set by checking chrome://policy. See [1] for possible values.

Now, because uBO is now disabled in the Chrome Web Store, you also need to install it as a "forced extension" (the way extensions are deployed in enterprise environments). Install the extension according to the section "Use a preferences file" in [2]:

  - Create a file named cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm.json
  - Place it in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/External Extensions/
  - With content:
  { "external_update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx" }
You'll need to create the "External Extensions" directory, set file permissions according to docs, restart Chrome. The file name contains the extension ID to be installed, which you can verify from the submission URL of this post. Upon Chrome restart, it should notify you with a message in the top right that an extension was forcibly installed.

The ExtensionManifestV2Availability definitely still works for now, but it's been a about a month since I used the preferences file way of installing the extension on a new device. YMMV.

[1] https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#ExtensionManifestV... [2] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/how-to/distribu...

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

#956

Post by dagelf »

Miraste wrote: post #678
mrandish wrote: post #593

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do elaborate...

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

#957

Post by dagelf »

chii wrote: post #787
nikcub wrote: post #641

Earlier quoted context omitted.

uBO being so good at blocking YouTube ads to the point where you didn't need to signup for Premium may have been the tipping point for Google that ended manifest V2.

i suspect that youtube mobile is responsible for more traffic than web. And that it's harder (but not impossible) to have adblocking on mobile (such as revanced).

Brave gives you everything Premium for free.

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

#958

Post by anticensor »

echelon wrote: post #267
gruez wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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".

It's time for a Google breakup from the DOJ / FTC. They've gone well beyond what Microsoft did in the 2000s. Google owns so many panes of glass and funnels them all through its search and advertising funnel. They've distorted how the web (and mobile) work to accomplish this massive market distortion. Search, Ads, and Android should be broken up into separate units. Chrome shouldn't be placed with any of those units.…

> It's time for a Google breakup from the DOJ / FTC.

That one is already being pursued.

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

#959

Post by anticensor »

crazygringo wrote: post #903
culi wrote: post #808

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

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. So that's plenty to cover all your websites. Which is why UBOL works p…

In my uBO (not uBOL) setup, I have about 1.7M rules active.

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

#960

Post by dahpu »

benkaiser wrote: post #628

As a developer, the one feature I really love in Chrome is PWAs. But Firefox abandoned PWA support years ago, and seems to have no appetite for adding PWAs back[1]. Maybe I'll just have to split my usage across PWAs in Chrome (since I trust those apps/websites anyway) and Firefox for general browsing. [1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/bring-back-pwa-progress...

They seem on bringing it back one way or another [1] and there is also a workaround utility [2].

[1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/how-can-firefox-c...

[2] https://pwasforfirefox.filips.si/

Post reply on HN