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

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

pcworld.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

471–480 of 752 posts

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#471

Post by inigyou »

scared_together wrote: post #348
windowliker wrote: post #154

I often forget how browsing the web looks for most people. Can't understand why they put up with it, or do they just think that it's part and parcel of the internet to have every page look like a slot machine from hell?

I currently don’t use ad blockers. The only time I used ad blockers was when a previous employer specifically asked me to, when using a company machine. > Can't understand why they put up with it To see which (rare) sites don’t put up a million ads and actually care about the reading experience. A lot of the top-listed sites on HN are small blogs without ads (or in the case of danluu.com or lwn.net - without almost a…

Most of those sites that would shut down without ads are providing negative value and would make the world better if they shut down.

Sometimes I make an exception. Sometimes.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#472

Post by inigyou »

HaloZero wrote: post #239
windowliker wrote: post #154

I often forget how browsing the web looks for most people. Can't understand why they put up with it, or do they just think that it's part and parcel of the internet to have every page look like a slot machine from hell?

I turned off my adblocker on 404 Media since I wanted to support them, I loaded one new tab in an article and it maxed my CPU at 100% for so long that I paused and had to figure out what was spiking my computer. Immediately turned it off.

They have a subscription I think. You can pay them actual money.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#473

Post by inigyou »

beej71 wrote: post #240
seabrookmx wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> every page That's a bit hyperbolic. The areas of the internet I frequent do not have egregious ads (for example, this page). Areas where I really would like good ad-blocking (youtube) are often not covered by these ad blockers. Thankfully Youtube Premium isn't too expensive and solves that issue. Maybe it's better these days but I always found browser extensions (including uBlock) had a pretty big performance hit,…

> Thankfully Youtube Premium isn't too expensive and solves that issue. True, but some of us refuse to give that company money on principle. The minute I can't watch YouTube without ads is the minute I stop watching YouTube. (The creators I follow make way more money off me on Patreon than Google would ever pay them, anyway.) > I always found browser extensions (including uBlock) had a pretty big performance hit I al…

Do you use Invidious?

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#474

Post by inigyou »

prmoustache wrote: post #190
seabrookmx wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> every page That's a bit hyperbolic. The areas of the internet I frequent do not have egregious ads (for example, this page). Areas where I really would like good ad-blocking (youtube) are often not covered by these ad blockers. Thankfully Youtube Premium isn't too expensive and solves that issue. Maybe it's better these days but I always found browser extensions (including uBlock) had a pretty big performance hit,…

adblock works well with regular youtube ads (not the one inside the actual content).

For the latter, there is sponsorblock.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#477

Post by inigyou »

bambax wrote: post #425

There's a mystery here. People hate ads. Firefox is the only major browser (save Brave?) that properly blocks ads. Yet people don't use Firefox (indeed its popularity is in free-fall). Why? Is it because they don't know about it? Or they won't go to the trouble of using any browser that isn't the one provided by default by the OS? I'm not sure. I just don't get it.

Firefox is also the only "major" browser not installed on any device by default. People with windows use edge, people with mac or ios use safari, people with android use chrome. People with linux use firefox but those are extremely few since none of the machines you buy at the store have linux.

It's really that simple. Marketing realism wins over technical excellence every single time.

Do you know why Valve invested so much into Linux? It's because Microsoft threatened to blacklist Steam from Windows unless they gave Microsoft a 30% cut of all sales. Why would Microsoft do that? Because they can, and it makes money on average (failed this time in particular though). Capitalism is a dog-eat-dog world.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#478

Post by inigyou »

swed420 wrote: post #452
Larrikin wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What flaws exactly? People on here love to moan about Firefox because Mozilla did one thing at some point in the existence of the company they didn't like. But then just cede the Internet to Google and chromium clones because at some point when they were a crappy junior JS dev, Chrome had some better tooling over Firebug so they just got used to testing in one browser. Maybe they also like to remember how Firefox, a…

> What flaws exactly? For starters, they notoriously make configuration a difficult and shifting game of whac-o-mole to do simple things such as disabling the AI that nobody asked for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779 It's also become more unstable in recent years, and I'm not even talking about 1000 tab sessions. It will crash with only a handful of tabs fairly regularly on linux. For more flaws, look a…

I don't think the AI is part of the core. You know you get to change all that stuff when you make a fork, right?

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#479

Post by dbspin »

somenameforme wrote: post #295
dralley wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Websites already can barely be assed to care about supporting Firefox users, doing adblocking by default is a great way to get websites to start putting up banners that say "our website does not work with your browser, please switch to Chrome" en-masse. And Mozilla did develop anti-fingerprinting tech, but they can't enable it by default because it breaks lots of websites and when a website doesn't work they're not g…

Brave has native ad-block and anti finger-printing, enabled by default, and the web works excellently as in I don't know of a single site that doesn't work with it.

Brave's ad block is pretty ineffectual by itself. For example it doesn't block youtube adverts. Recently switched to Firefox with Ublock origin, and loving it. So much more efficient and quick than it was back in the day when we all switched to Chrome.
Post reply on HN