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Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by DANmode »

zulban wrote: post #361

I don't "bypass" Chrome when they want to melt my brain with their business model, I use Firefox. I don't "bypass" Windows when they want to melt my brain with their business model, I use Linux. No idea why so many "hackers" doing "bypasses" can't instead take action that is simpler, long lasting, and easier. Do people need to jerked around 50 times for 20 years before realizing it will keep happening and their "bypa…

They finally enabled per site isolation by default after years of Chromium having it - still not in mobile though.

Wonder what else I'm not aware of that they're slack on.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by grantith »

hannofcart wrote: post #396
owebmaster wrote: post #385

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I'm with you with this idea but relying on firefox is not much better. I use PWAs a lot and Firefox decided that PWAs are not worth implementing or maintaining their past implementation. I still use firefox 70% of the time but this is wrong and go against what the users want.

+1 to this. This is probably the only thing that keeps me from ditching Chrome/Brave and going back to Firefox.

Floorp is a popular Firefox fork with PWAs enabled.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by 0xblinq »

scarface_74 wrote: post #147
vehemenz wrote: post #120

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Apple isn’t selling my data, and they make the best consumer hardware, so at this point there aren’t many downsides to Apple lock in.

No company sells your data. They sell access to you based on the data they have about you. Apple is no different

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Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by aspenmayer »

stubish wrote: post #429
djrj477dhsnv wrote: post #392

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On what platform? I've been using Firefox and uBO on Linux and Android for over a decade and never seen a YouTube ad.

They do staged rollouts, maybe a-b testing. It seems to generally be region based rather than platform.

You might need to check that you are using all appropriate blocklists as well. The subreddit usually has a sticky/pinned post for YouTube related issues as this has been a slow moving target for about a year now.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by userbinator »

deryilz wrote: post #490
userbinator wrote: post #427

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Also, dude, from your other comments: "What a selfish dickhead, helping them make better nooses to put around everyone's necks (including his own)." And "People like this are enemies of freedom and should be called out publicly." What the ?

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Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by userbinator »

jonas21 wrote: post #492
deryilz wrote: post #472

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Hi, I appreciate your opinion, but really disagree. First of all, this is one bug, and most of the ones I find don't "act against user's interests" (not that this one could have been used effectively without being patched anyway). Doing bug finding is how I make a difference and a skill I feel proud of. I USED to keep bugs (read: exploits) for myself without sharing them, but after a while I realized it was not worth…

Yes, this is a mature way of looking at things.

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Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by aspenmayer »

LordDragonfang wrote: post #246
krackers wrote: post #50

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One of the main goals of MV3 seems to be nullifying protection against tracking URLs. Most of the discussion about adblocking technically "still working" under MV3 misses this point. It doesn't matter if you're actually served ads or not, when when your underlying habits can still easily be collected from the combination of fingerprints and tracking URLs. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/302

> Most of the discussion about adblocking technically "still working" under MV3 misses this point. Because it's a dishonest point. Ad blocking still works. All the same ads can still be removed from the page. Tracker blocking doesn't. This is still a huge problem for privacy. But while nearly everyone dislikes seeing ads that interrupt your content, people who actually care about tracking privacy are a much smaller g…

I assume that those who care to block ads also care to block trackers, if they care about MV3 at all.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

fooker wrote: post #413
zulban wrote: post #361

I don't "bypass" Chrome when they want to melt my brain with their business model, I use Firefox. I don't "bypass" Windows when they want to melt my brain with their business model, I use Linux. No idea why so many "hackers" doing "bypasses" can't instead take action that is simpler, long lasting, and easier. Do people need to jerked around 50 times for 20 years before realizing it will keep happening and their "bypa…

Great, except firefox is pretty bad nowadays. Not their fault of course, with people not testing websites on non chrome derived browsers.

Firefox has been my main browser for almost 10 years and I haven't encountered any challenges other than availability of plugins, but even that has been a very rare issue.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by thaumasiotes »

djrj477dhsnv wrote: post #392
thaumasiotes wrote: post #382

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YouTube recently started showing ads through uBO in Firefox.

On what platform? I've been using Firefox and uBO on Linux and Android for over a decade and never seen a YouTube ad.

I'm on Windows 10.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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zulban wrote: post #361

I don't "bypass" Chrome when they want to melt my brain with their business model, I use Firefox. I don't "bypass" Windows when they want to melt my brain with their business model, I use Linux. No idea why so many "hackers" doing "bypasses" can't instead take action that is simpler, long lasting, and easier. Do people need to jerked around 50 times for 20 years before realizing it will keep happening and their "bypa…

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