PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium • Hacker News Board

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by zxxh » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:33 PM UTC

justahuman74 wrote: post #3

This seems like it's too hard to tell friends/family. Is the go-to now just 'install firefox'?

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Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by metadat » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:33 PM UTC

davesmylie wrote: post #14

jsheard wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Google leaves a boolean switch in Chromium to keep V2 enabled then I assume most if not all of the third party Chromium-derived browsers will just flip it to true by default. That's easy for them to do, the hard part is if Google strips out V2 altogether and leaves the downstream browsers to patch it back in.

There will be a switch available ... but only for a period of time before the functionality is completely removed

And apparently, as per this post, only available to folks who are savvy with the command-line.

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by viraptor » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:33 PM UTC

MattGaiser wrote: post #9

TheGlav wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.

IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sites.

There's some very specific sites that are broken in non-chrome browsers. Writing this message took you more time than you'd spend starting chrome specifically for them for the next few months.

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by cranberryturkey » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:33 PM UTC

firefox is still the best browser.

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by loloquwowndueo » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:34 PM UTC

MattGaiser wrote: post #9

TheGlav wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.

IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sites.

Firefox doesn’t break sites.

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by yoyohello13 » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:35 PM UTC

MattGaiser wrote: post #9

TheGlav wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.

IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sites.

I've been using Firefox exclusively for years. I have no idea what these people who say it breaks sites are talking about. If you absolutely need to use chrome for something just keep chromium around for that specific site.

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by jsheard » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:36 PM UTC

nazgulsenpai wrote: post #15

First recommendation would be a pihole running anywhere you can run it, but if you don't want to or can't do that, you can use Steven Black's ad list to create a hosts file to DNS sink ad/bad networks locally: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Isn't DNS-level blocking strictly less capable than even the nerfed Manifest V3 filtering API? V3 can still block at a more granular level than nuking entire hostnames AFAIK, even if it's not as granular as V2.