Too bad it only targets Chrome webextensions. No support for people still using the Firefox version of Firefox instead of the modern Chrome style Firefox.
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#22Just read Microsoft will allow ad blocker extensions (May build one in) in their new Chromium browser. Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years and use IE again(IE of today). Such a stupid move by the do no evil company! Now they do no stupid too. EDIT: Here is link... https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/06/16/micr...
> Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years
Well if you had asked your typical HN developer a few years ago whether they'd be using a Microsoft code editor ...
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#23This is great! Any plans for Safari support?
Not the most up to fate, but exists: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari
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#24After Chrome API changes announcement uBlock Origin news at HN became more popular than before. I like it.
It's become a pattern across many Google assets. The massive price increase of the Maps API, the order of magnitude limitations placed on the YouTube API, and now the neutering of ad blocking on Chromium. Google built an empire, and now they're cashing in their chips. I can't say I blame them, but they are no longer a platform that enables innovation. So now my only question is what's next? Which Google product will be the next to transform into an anaconda in their attempts to squeeze cash from their customers. Personally, I'm rethinking everything from Gmail to Android.
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#25When will the planned changes to the Chrome API actually roll out to the public?
The best estimates would be rolling out by next year, and enforced in probably 2 years. And they will probably change quite a lot until then.
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#26This is great! Any plans for Safari support?
I absolutely detest the way Extensions in Safari are handled in Mojave. Is there any way to install them without the App Store?
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#27Just read Microsoft will allow ad blocker extensions (May build one in) in their new Chromium browser. Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years and use IE again(IE of today). Such a stupid move by the do no evil company! Now they do no stupid too. EDIT: Here is link... https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/06/16/micr...
A little know fact about IE8 is that it came with a built in content blocking mechanism appropriately called Tracking Protection way back in 2009. IIRC it was the first browser to come with ad blocking built in, although not turn on by default. Opera came with content blocking a bit later.
IE9 improved on it with what I think is one of the most impressive feature to this day. It had a heuristic tracking protection that block trackers once it's detected at a certain re-occurrence counts that you can config. So in theory it doesn't need to subscribed to an ad list like all browsers do today.
IE took a lot of crap deservedly so, but that overshadowed a lot of pioneer works that later browsers adopted.
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#28Too bad it only targets Chrome webextensions. No support for people still using the Firefox version of Firefox instead of the modern Chrome style Firefox.
There's no dev team here, its a single guy building something for free, if you want this to be supported on the older version of firefox, build it!
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#30This is great! Any plans for Safari support?
I absolutely detest the way Extensions in Safari are handled in Mojave. Is there any way to install them without the App Store?
Same. It's absolutely garbage that it requires a Mac App -- while there's workarounds for now, how much longer until they don't work either. It's a shame because I quite like Safari as a browser. Oh well, more incentive to switch back to Firefox!