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Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by webspinner »

rirrirler wrote: post #9

Link seems to be incorrect, should be: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/s/dGGy8PXAMG (www.reddit.com, not old.reddit.com) Which is this now removed post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1fhsai3/rest_in_pea... That had the title "Rest in peace" and contained this image: https://i.redd.it/ng75ptntl2pd1.png Which is a screenshot of the uBlock Origin page in the Chrome Web Store, displaying the message " This ext…

Yeah you do have to reconstitute old reddit links, although I just let the script take me there. The userscript I'm using that is.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by cueo »

solardev wrote: post #115

What's a good alternative Blink or Webkit browser? Meaning not Firefox (too many issues in my experience, and built-in ads are annoying, and I don't trust Mozilla).

Orion[1] (by Kagi) is sweet (but not without its own issues). Based on Webkit, supports vertical tabs, etc. But the big one: allows side-loading Chrome / Firefox extensions!

[1] https://kagi.com/orion/

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by anderber »

pixxel wrote: post #102
hereme888 wrote: post #79

Given that Brave is chrome-based, and Brave won't stand for ad-blockers being disabled, I wonder what they're planning. I do find uBlock Origin to be better than Brave's built-in blocker.

Is it not in their own interest to be the only ad blocker?

I'm not sure why it would be in their own interest to be the only ad blocker. What do they gain by not allowing other ad blockers?

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by undopamine »

thisisjaymehta wrote: post #48

What is worst, mods deleting this reddit post or google blocking UBO?

r/Piracy mods are compromised[1], one was recently caught accepting payments in exchange for hosting malicious sites on the megathread

Victims' posts get downvoted to invisiblity because it's reddit.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1evqxed/delete_this...

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by josephcsible »

joecot wrote: post #114
josephcsible wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because eventually there will be enough changes to the upstream Chromium codebase that the only way to keep these extensions working would be to stop following upstream, which would mean massively increased development costs.

Chrome is going to continue supporting v2 extensions for enterprise users, so presumably it'll be pretty trivial to keep support for everyone else.

Google says that's only going to last one additional year, not forever.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by gaws »

yett wrote: post #47
ElectroNomad wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wdym? It’s also a chromium browser i.e. it’ll lose uBlock as well eventually

"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" https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

Why take the word of the developers of a Chromium-based browser, some of whom may not even be part of the project in the long run? Firefox is built on an entirely different engine and doesn't have this problem.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by solardev »

cueo wrote: post #122
solardev wrote: post #115

What's a good alternative Blink or Webkit browser? Meaning not Firefox (too many issues in my experience, and built-in ads are annoying, and I don't trust Mozilla).

Orion[1] (by Kagi) is sweet (but not without its own issues). Based on Webkit, supports vertical tabs, etc. But the big one: allows side-loading Chrome / Firefox extensions! [1] https://kagi.com/orion/

Awesome, thank you! Once Manifest v3 is officially live, I'll probably end up ditching Chrome and Google Search altogether.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by devilsdata »

webspinner wrote: post #120
devilsdata wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have ADHD and I cannot use a product if there is ads. In any form they exist in, they take up time, energy, and attention, all of which I have precious little of compared to the average person. Ensuring I still have PiHole or NextDNS to block ads at a DNS level, I'd use Safari with any adblock extension. Failing that, I'd browse the compatible web with a TUI browse in terminal. Failing that I'm reading books and ta…

I'm a screen reader user. It's similar for me, accept if I really wanted to navigate around the ads I suppose i could. However i do have chronic migraines, so that reduces my ability to care about ads. Or X embeds, Or facebook sharing widgets. So no, it isn't just an ad thing, it's a let's not take a whole bunch of energy to navigate a page thing.

I sympathise. It annoys me to no end that accessibility seems to be an afterthought on the modern web.

Another thing for me is that popups annoy me. If I get too many modals pop up on a page, I get emotionally frustrated. This is quite common these days with some websites– all it takes is one GDPR cookies modal and an AI chat popup in the bottom right corner– and that's already way more frustration than my brain can handle.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by mjevans »

magicalhippo wrote: post #91
mjevans wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KDE Plasma (6) user - Firefox Multiple Profiles. It's been far too long since I set it up, so I forget if I had to duplicate the application, if you do mine uses these settings: Firefox Profile Manager firefox --new-instance --ProfileManager I prefer to NOT group windows so I can sort them manually, but also, offhand, because I believe it groups off of the executable name, not the profile. If you right click on the I…

Actually I realized I totally forgot a crucial detail. I run my other profile using Firefox Beta, so they really are separate applications. I assume that would fully explain why they behave separately. Sorry about that. Will have to test using multiple profiles using the same executable. However, if the same "trick" works on Linux, perhaps it could be exploited by Firefox creating a separate executable that launches…

Firefox couldn't do the link thing itself without either being a setuid binary, or running somewhere the user could replace Firefox. You could MAYBE get it to make a symlink under XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, or /tmp if that's unset, since symlinks work across devices. At least on my desktop /tmp is allowed to contain executables and a symlink to /usr/bin/bash executes and remains named as the symlink path.

Though it'd still be many times better if Firefox made it easier to tell which profile was associated with a given process (prefix the argument list as if launched with that). ALSO if KDE's task list supported improved flexibility for group categorization. It wouldn't even need to run an external program other than once for each new window created.

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