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Use brave instead. It's actually chrome with uBlock built in, kind of.
>kind of Exactly, kind of. It's actually a Chrome that removes the native ads, inserts their own ads they sell as a middle man and a built-in weird crypto currency.
I don't understand why people are surprised about this.
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The experience is so awful when I browse on my iPad, instead of my Android phone with Firefox+UBlock. I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads. The modern web is so much worse than the pop up ads of the old web.
Even without the ads, you still have multiple cookie popups and banners, floating videos and newsletter notifications to closes before getting to the content. And of course as you scroll down some of those come back (floating videos in particular). There was a time where you could just close the tab if it was that bad, but now pretty much all websites are like this so there's no choice.
You are right about all the rest.
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manifest v3: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/ > Manifest V3 is part of a shift in the philosophy behind how we approach end-user security and privacy. it requrires you to declaratively specify what to block in advance, so it's going to be pretty easy to write some logic that can't be declaratively specified I suspect killing the adblockers is the entire reason behind it
glad firefox is allowing and end-run around this
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The experience is so awful when I browse on my iPad, instead of my Android phone with Firefox+UBlock. I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads. The modern web is so much worse than the pop up ads of the old web.
Even without the ads, you still have multiple cookie popups and banners, floating videos and newsletter notifications to closes before getting to the content. And of course as you scroll down some of those come back (floating videos in particular). There was a time where you could just close the tab if it was that bad, but now pretty much all websites are like this so there's no choice.
Firefox for Android with ublock origin makes my mobile web browsing sane again. Highly recommended.
Likewise for NextDNS as Androids Private DNS. This combination of Firefox+uBlock and NextDNS+Private DNS makes Android a pleasurable experience.
It's open source as well.
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Sure, but a pi consumes about 3.5W of energy and can run 24/7/365. There are alternatives, but most other solutions will end up costing more in electricity costs. Especially problematic in say Europe right now.
Are you sure about the 3.5W? That seems high. An iPad at idle with the display on uses less than that.
RPi 3B+ has sometimes problem with stability because of higher power consumption.
Official power supply of RPi is 2,6A if I remember correctly, so 3,5 is not even possible?
Btw, many routers support sleep mode. It is not necessary to run router/connected RPi 24/7.
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The experience is so awful when I browse on my iPad, instead of my Android phone with Firefox+UBlock. I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads. The modern web is so much worse than the pop up ads of the old web.
Even without the ads, you still have multiple cookie popups and banners, floating videos and newsletter notifications to closes before getting to the content. And of course as you scroll down some of those come back (floating videos in particular). There was a time where you could just close the tab if it was that bad, but now pretty much all websites are like this so there's no choice.
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Even without the ads, you still have multiple cookie popups and banners, floating videos and newsletter notifications to closes before getting to the content. And of course as you scroll down some of those come back (floating videos in particular). There was a time where you could just close the tab if it was that bad, but now pretty much all websites are like this so there's no choice.
I wonder if there would be a market for something like ublock, but instead of removing the ads, it removes just the content and puts it on an entirely new page - a bit like 'reader mode'. Obviously it would probably need logic for every web page, but that could be croudsourced