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PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by magicalhippo »

Flankk wrote: post #2

Are people really that adamant about blocking ads on the web? I don't understand why people think it's a good idea to remove the primary source of revenue for content creators. At the most it amounts to a very mild annoyance and ads also help small businesses to grow. Edit: I'd appreciate it if someone could respond to the points I made rather than simply complain about why they don't like ads.

Besides the issue of tracking and such, there's the fact that limiting arbitrary unchecked third-party executable code to run on your computer is a good thing.

I use uBlock primarily as a line of defense, not just to avoid annoying ads.

As an example, a few years ago the ad network of a newspaper here in Norway was hacked. Anyone visiting their site (or affiliates) would silently and without any user interaction get infected with a banking malware.

The malware that time would cause bank transfers made through the online banking site of the most popular bank here to go to a different account than the one specified. It could have done something else.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by cube00 »

blondin wrote: post #147

profiles are my number one reason for using chrome as well. i need them because of my bookmarks. i have close to 6000 bookmarks. 20 years and counting of curated and tagged web links. chrome syncs them across all my devices. i have to do the import gymnastics once in a while for edge and safari. but that's it. why are bookmarks still browser-specific and not a OS-level feature? why do we need all that import/export g…

To Microsoft's credit in the pre-Edge days they represented bookmarks as a system shortcut which live in a regular folder.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by anewguy9000 »

blondin wrote: post #147

profiles are my number one reason for using chrome as well. i need them because of my bookmarks. i have close to 6000 bookmarks. 20 years and counting of curated and tagged web links. chrome syncs them across all my devices. i have to do the import gymnastics once in a while for edge and safari. but that's it. why are bookmarks still browser-specific and not a OS-level feature? why do we need all that import/export g…

because 75% of them are probably dead links now ;-)

but all the major browsers have sync. you can export them from chrome and import them into brave

and btw if you use a lot of bookmarks (i do too) you might love this graphical bookmark manager YASD - you can browse bookmarks as thumbnail images of the site -- much easier to browse them for the link you want):

https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by gbrindisi »

bloopernova wrote: post #126

*Off-topic:* I've experimented with a new layout in Firefox, and now I can't think of going back. I first installed Tree Style Tab. I then removed the tabs at the top of the window and added a permanent status bar to the bottom of the window using userChrome.css: https://i.imgur.com/PIONywj.png (edited to add, my userChrome.css: https://gist.github.com/anthonyclarka2/155c038de96e91894cbd4... ) (EDIT: I added some ext…

my favourite feature of tree style tab is coloring tabs based on content: yellow search, orange news, green internal stuff etc

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by oauea »

db48x wrote: post #136
oauea wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do that twice, running two firefoxes using two profiles, then click a link in a third application. This tends to try to launch a third firefox process which hangs for a while then says "application already running". Okay, so you run one of them without no-remote. I had some issues with that, but it mostly works. Now how do you change the default profile? You completely stop firefox, update your shortcuts and finally,…

Navigate to about:profiles and click “Set as Default Profile” for one of them.

That button grays out when both profiles are running. Try it.

Also if the firefox instance is launched with no-remote, this won't even work as expected. Instead it'll start another firefox instance with remoting enabled, which will fail to start because the profile is already in use.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by oauea »

magicalhippo wrote: post #138
oauea wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do that twice, running two firefoxes using two profiles, then click a link in a third application. This tends to try to launch a third firefox process which hangs for a while then says "application already running". Okay, so you run one of them without no-remote. I had some issues with that, but it mostly works. Now how do you change the default profile? You completely stop firefox, update your shortcuts and finally,…

I agree this is a pain point when using multiple profiles, and something Firefox should improve. However it's not a huge issue. Mostly just copy-pasting links from mails etc instead of clicking, which gives the nice benefit of observing which site exactly you're about to visit.

Sure, all it does is it breaks left clicking hyperlinks in all other applications.
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