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Re: Building a UMatrix Replacement

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Post by jorvi »

madars wrote: post #6

Nice work! FWIW, you can still use Manifest V2 extensions, like uMatrix, uBlock Origin, or Violentmonkey, in Chrome by passing command line flags. For example, on macOS: open -b com.google.Chrome --new --args --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled When Google finally nerfs that, it is past time to move to Firefox or Brave, the latter of which has explicitly announced uMatrix sup…

> For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix

Once Google removes MV2 and it's supporting code, Brave is not going to shoulder the cost of keeping all of that patched to run on newer builds of Chromium. Especially not because their own blocking doesn't rely on it, uMatrix has been deprecated since 2021, and AdGuard is already committed to transitioning to MV3.

Re: Building a UMatrix Replacement

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Post by kencausey »

yborg wrote: post #10
teddyh wrote: post #7

If you are running a modern Firefox, there’s still nuMatrix: https://codeberg.org/arek/nuMatrix >

There's still uMatrix, for that matter. gorhill hasn't updated it in 5 years, but still just werks.

Yes, I still use it and can confirm that I have had no concerns or problems with it. On the other hand, if I had to reinstall, without research, I'm not sure how I would reinstall it. Having alternatives is a good thing.

Re: Building a UMatrix Replacement

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Post by tadfisher »

lpcvoid wrote: post #2

>I really don’t want to give that up – is there a solution? Use Firefox, uBO works great. While I really enjoy seeing people find creative technical workarounds, the reason for it being needed in the first place is Googles fight against Adblockers with Manifest V3. Firefox allows people to sidestep this artificial downgrade of adblocking capabilities.

But performance? Question mark?

Re: Building a UMatrix Replacement

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Post by dehrmann »

yborg wrote: post #10
teddyh wrote: post #7

If you are running a modern Firefox, there’s still nuMatrix: https://codeberg.org/arek/nuMatrix >

There's still uMatrix, for that matter. gorhill hasn't updated it in 5 years, but still just werks.

It mostly still just works. Sometimes even with everything enabled, a site won't work.

Re: Building a UMatrix Replacement

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Post by SoMomentary »

madars wrote: post #6

Nice work! FWIW, you can still use Manifest V2 extensions, like uMatrix, uBlock Origin, or Violentmonkey, in Chrome by passing command line flags. For example, on macOS: open -b com.google.Chrome --new --args --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled When Google finally nerfs that, it is past time to move to Firefox or Brave, the latter of which has explicitly announced uMatrix sup…

I thought these stopped working altogether with the release of Chrome 142? I know you could override it for awhile there, but I've been lead to believe that option is gone.

This is part of what forced my hand and made Firefox my daily driver, at least for personal use.

Re: Building a UMatrix Replacement

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Post by SoMomentary »

tadfisher wrote: post #13
lpcvoid wrote: post #2

>I really don’t want to give that up – is there a solution? Use Firefox, uBO works great. While I really enjoy seeing people find creative technical workarounds, the reason for it being needed in the first place is Googles fight against Adblockers with Manifest V3. Firefox allows people to sidestep this artificial downgrade of adblocking capabilities.

But performance? Question mark?

Webpages run a lot better when I block all that extra shit from running!

Re: Building a UMatrix Replacement

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Post by madars »

SoMomentary wrote: post #15
madars wrote: post #6

Nice work! FWIW, you can still use Manifest V2 extensions, like uMatrix, uBlock Origin, or Violentmonkey, in Chrome by passing command line flags. For example, on macOS: open -b com.google.Chrome --new --args --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled When Google finally nerfs that, it is past time to move to Firefox or Brave, the latter of which has explicitly announced uMatrix sup…

I thought these stopped working altogether with the release of Chrome 142? I know you could override it for awhile there, but I've been lead to believe that option is gone. This is part of what forced my hand and made Firefox my daily driver, at least for personal use.

It works fine in Chrome 148. Earlier Chrome versions removed chrome://flags versions of the above even with "Temporarily unexpire M147 flags" (and similar), but command line invocation continues to work.

Re: Building a UMatrix Replacement

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Post by atoav »

exceptione wrote: post #3

For those not aware, the article assumes you are stuck in Google Chrome. Ublock works correctly in Firefox and derivatives, I advise you to use that instead to end the suffering. If you find yourself in a "only Internet Explorer 5.5 is supported" situation, you could perhaps use Ungoogled Chromium and manually install Ublock Origin to buy yourself time to get out of that dead lock.

If you use a browser by a company that earns most of its revenue by selling ads and wonder why the ad-blocker is not working I may have a bridge to sell to you.

Re: Building a UMatrix Replacement

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Post by gitaarik »

dehrmann wrote: post #14
yborg wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's still uMatrix, for that matter. gorhill hasn't updated it in 5 years, but still just werks.

It mostly still just works. Sometimes even with everything enabled, a site won't work.

Indeed, this is why I eventually stopped using it; sometimes a random site wouldn't function properly, and took time to figure out it was uMatrix. It was a nice plugin indeed though.

Re: Building a UMatrix Replacement

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Post by jjav »

yborg wrote: post #10
teddyh wrote: post #7

If you are running a modern Firefox, there’s still nuMatrix: https://codeberg.org/arek/nuMatrix >

There's still uMatrix, for that matter. gorhill hasn't updated it in 5 years, but still just werks.

> There's still uMatrix, for that matter. gorhill hasn't updated it in 5 years, but still just werks.

Yes! I have uMatrix on all my computers. I wish it was still being updated but.. it still works great. The best ever.

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