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It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.
I can't really fathom a scenario where you can't install other browsers but you can run a command in Terminal to alter some root permissions.
PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
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Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
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It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.
IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sites.
This is FUD. Firefox doesn't break any sites. There is functionally no difference between sites rendered in Firefox and sites rendered in Chrome.
Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.
IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sites.
Firefox is a decent browser. Some sites are coded like shit and then they futz around until it works in whatever Chrome your cousin used for development.
Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
#14This seems like it's too hard to tell friends/family. Is the go-to now just 'install firefox'?
If Google leaves a boolean switch in Chromium to keep V2 enabled then I assume most if not all of the third party Chromium-derived browsers will just flip it to true by default. That's easy for them to do, the hard part is if Google strips out V2 altogether and leaves the downstream browsers to patch it back in.
There will be a switch available ... but only for a period of time before the functionality is completely removed
Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
#15First recommendation would be a pihole running anywhere you can run it, but if you don't want to or can't do that, you can use Steven Black's ad list to create a hosts file to DNS sink ad/bad networks locally:
Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
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It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.
If you have those one or two very specific websites that just cannot cope with Firefox, just use Chrome for them. They're likely not the ad-filled pages anyway, but rather some specific companies.
We've done this for the IE in the past, we can do it today. It really doesn't take that much time.
There's only one thing that will fix this situation long term and it's lowering chrome's market share. Don't stick with it and get continuously abused - no, it won't get better, only worse from now on.
Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.
IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sites.
I see you managed to avoid encountering the Great ActiveX Catastrophe. Microsoft successfully managed to lock thousands of services behind proprietary extensions that only IE supported.
Also, IE wasn't technically garbage. There were a few, specific things wrong with it. Its main issue was that it implemented web features idiosyncratically, and Microsoft didn't document it, so you had to learn all of IE's "quirks" through trial and error: but apart from being undocumented, few of IE's idiosyncrasies were actually bugs. Its box model, for example, was arguably superior to the official W3C recommendation.
Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
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It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.
I don’t see how that is true. There are a ton of chromium based browsers, many with privacy enhancements baked in, and Safari is well supported (iOS monopoly ensures that).
I’ll give you Firefox not working well due to Mozilla shitting the bed under Baker who I consider a vandal and a charlatan.
As somebody who lives through IE6 the trend of a dominant browser shitting on users is the same - but so many more options to switch now.
Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
#20This seems like it's too hard to tell friends/family. Is the go-to now just 'install firefox'?
i would always tell them to install firefox. this is mostly for developers and tech oriented people who need to keep chrome around