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Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Post by zulban »

tombert wrote: post #15
ews wrote: post #14

Moved to firefox and I am glad I did, I want to use a browser that respects my privacy choices

I left Firefox a few months ago because there was a bug in their shader cache, so a lot of stuff was laggy. I was willing to put up with until I got a 360 camera and videos were playing at like 2 fps. This was about six months ago, it’s possible that it’s been fixed, I haven’t checked. I am using Brave right now, which seems fine. I have no idea if it actually respects privacy but they at least claim it does.

Every browser has occasional big issues. If you haven't seen one yet in (insert browser name here) then you just haven't been around long enough.

Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Post by dotcoma »

jksflkjl3jk3 wrote: post #16
mattl wrote: post #3

Firefox is still there, but Mozilla is adding AI slop to it too. I’d love to see an extension to disable all that stuff, or ideally get rid of it and make it an extension

Just use LibreWolf on desktop and IronFox on Android. They basically strip out all the anti-privacy, anti-user "features" from Firefox.

You can use Librewolf, or the Firefox-based browser from Swedish VPN company Mullvad.

Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Post by j45 »

tombert wrote: post #15
ews wrote: post #14

Moved to firefox and I am glad I did, I want to use a browser that respects my privacy choices

I left Firefox a few months ago because there was a bug in their shader cache, so a lot of stuff was laggy. I was willing to put up with until I got a 360 camera and videos were playing at like 2 fps. This was about six months ago, it’s possible that it’s been fixed, I haven’t checked. I am using Brave right now, which seems fine. I have no idea if it actually respects privacy but they at least claim it does.

Would it be possible to just look at the videos in a different browser?

Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Post by dotcoma »

nar001 wrote: post #20
tombert wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I left Firefox a few months ago because there was a bug in their shader cache, so a lot of stuff was laggy. I was willing to put up with until I got a 360 camera and videos were playing at like 2 fps. This was about six months ago, it’s possible that it’s been fixed, I haven’t checked. I am using Brave right now, which seems fine. I have no idea if it actually respects privacy but they at least claim it does.

That doesn't solve the issue of ManifestV2 being removed though, Brave will have it removed at the same time as Chrome, when it's pulled from the code base

Brave have not promised to continue to support uBlock Origin ?

Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Post by hardwaresofton »

ews wrote: post #14

Moved to firefox and I am glad I did, I want to use a browser that respects my privacy choices

This is the right answer, and more people (especially technical people like frequent HN) should be pointing this out.

"What ads? Oh you must be running Chrome" needs to be the common refrain.

Really hope this ends up being a surprising tide shift. Firefox has dipped really hard in marketshare, but there's no reason it can't start to gain again/grow steadily.

It's really too bad the Firefox tent wasn't big enough for all the alternative browsers that exist (though of course they're not scratching the surface of real usage either). I skipped the whole Arc wave and I'm glad I did -- it's a distraction from Firefox.

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