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

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Post by tombert »

j45 wrote: post #23
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.

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

Of course I could but I don’t really want to do that.

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

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Post by timcambrant »

therealpygon wrote: post #95
GlitchRider47 wrote: post #39

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nar001 is right. Once it is pulled from Chromium, Brave can no longer support it. Although, Brave's adblocking is just as good out if the box IMO, and it is implemented without the need for Manifest V2, so it will continue to function

They absolutely can continue to support it, that is the entire point of open source. What Chrome or Chromium does by default may make it more difficult, but doesn’t mean it is something that “can no longer” be supported.

I agree fully. We need to keep the idea of fully branching off from an open source project alive. But I also suspect that Google has incentives to make it extra complicated and difficult to maintain a fork of their codebase with adblocking implemented on top of it, over time. Resources are often very limited in open source and often comes down to one or a few people.

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

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Post by p_ing »

rasz wrote: post #52
p_ing wrote: post #18

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In the past Microsoft said they would. It would be a large engineering effort to preserve Manifestv2

For microsoft its a joke to support. We are talking about _one hook_ into Chrome internals for declarativeNetRequest to work.

I hear this and I also hear the lack of experience with enterprise (let alone commercial) software development.

Five lines of code still requires one dev, one PM, and one manager. It still requires security reviews, audits, and so on. There are no free lines of code in a commercial code base.

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

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Post by slumberlust »

M95D wrote: post #63
ews wrote: post #14

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

But Firefox is so dependent on google (money, code) that it's absolutely impossible they won't also remove manifest v2. It will just take a little while, for appearances...

It seems disingenuous to penalize a company for something that hasn't happened and is based on an assumption of interest.

In the same way we should chastise the platforms that choose to enshitify, we should praise those that hold out.

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

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Post by 93po »

M95D wrote: post #63
ews wrote: post #14

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

But Firefox is so dependent on google (money, code) that it's absolutely impossible they won't also remove manifest v2. It will just take a little while, for appearances...

About a year ago FF said they had no current plans to remove V2 support, and if they did, they'd give at least 12 month notice. Which to me is basically language saying they absolutely will remove it at some point, otherwise they'd just say "no we'll never remove it, fuck google".

I've moved to LibreWolf personally

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

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Post by techjamie »

Sammi wrote: post #87
mkozlows wrote: post #43

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You will lose the password manager, but switch to 1Password -- it's way better anyway. Also, if you use Android, Firefox Mobile, with ad-blocking there, is the real killer advantage of Firefox.

No, switch to something open source like bitwarden or you'll just end up locked into a bad situation again.

I recommend Vaultwarden as a bitwarden server. It's pretty quick to set up and completely open source.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

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

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Post by tombert »

zulban wrote: post #21
tombert wrote: post #15

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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.

Sure, but there is a limit to bullshit I'm willing to put up with. When that bullshit level is past its threshold I don't think you can blame someone for jumping ship.
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