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What can uBlock Origin do that one couldn't do with a sufficiently sophisticated SSL-terminating forward proxy?
Using a proxy to do DNS blocking has significant failures modes. They wont work on youtube because youtube uses the same endpoint to serve the videos and ads for starters.
What can uBlock Origin do that one couldn't do with a sufficiently sophisticated SSL-terminating forward proxy?
Remove elements added dynamically without entirely blocking the script that produces them.
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Bypass Chrome altogether. Use Firefox.
If only Mozilla (the parent organization) wasn’t horrible. Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser?
Well, they're not getting any of my money, and they're not selling my eyeballs to any advertisers. For a while I used a filesystem written by a convicted murderer. I'm not sure at what point I'm supposed to avoid software because of who wrote it.
Seriously, what is a good alternative to Chrome's password management? For lazy end users.
~$ cat /etc/chromium/policies/managed/ubo-policies.json { "ExtensionManifestV2Availability": 2 } Will save you for another year.
If I recall correctly only till June 2025, did they change the date?
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They also fired a whole bunch of software engineers (including everyone working on Servo), and then massively boosted their executives' salaries, so that was certainly something.
As a criticism that applies equally to Google. Google lays off engineers: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034124/google-layoffs-e... Google boosts their executive's compensation: https://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-google-executive-pa...
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It really is amazing how things have come full circle from the point where chrome positioned itself as a "Libre" alternative to the IE near-monopoly There was a point between IE and chrome when Mozilla was always in the near-foreground offering alternatives to every internet hegemony, right around web 2.0, kinda makes me optimistic for the internet to see a resurgence of recommendations
Huh, I don't remember that narrative at all... From how I remember it, we started with Netscape, IE outcompeted that by adding new features until they had enough share to strangle the competition. By that time IE became mandatory because of their extensions. Windows systems couldn't get updates without opening IE. Eventually it (IE) fossilized and Firefox became the better browser with more features (remember that de…
Firebug was a godsend.
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If I donate to your project I hope the money goes towards your project. If you spend it on beer or buy Jacuzzi I'm happy too. If you chose to spend it on other projects ill be excited to learn what they are. https://future.mozilla.org/projects/ Do you use any of that? Is there anything there I should be using? (honest question) It seems premature to donate to things I don't know. > Solo helps entrepreneurs expand the…
> If I donate to your project I hope the money goes towards your project. Firefox is not a project of the Mozilla Foundation, but the Mozilla Corporation, so you just can't donate to Firefox at all; in fact, the money flows the opposite direction between them. I know it's frustrating but this argument is misleading yet keeps showing up in every thread.
If you want a Chromium based browser Brave has a uBlock-esque blocker built right into its core but it's disabled by default because "Brave Shields is enough protection" (it isn't, given the stats I see when enabled). Anyway, you can turn it on and it uses the same blocklists uBlock uses aswell.
Wait, really? There's something other than the default "shields" thing? Where is this and how do I enable it? Been using Brave for years with all the "aggressive" boxes checked and I've never seen such an option anywhere.