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uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another alternative is to use Brave Browser

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

Why do you think this would happen? Brave incorporates ublock as part of their Rust based adblocking library https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

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

#22
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another alternative is to use Brave Browser

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

Brave has a native ad blocker built in, so it's unaffected by changes in the extension API.

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

#24
post #16

Give me decent multi-profile support in firefox and I won't need a chromium browser anymore

Multi-profile support has been in FF since I started using it (at least 5 years ago?). The profile picker isn't as pretty as the Chrome window you get but its definitely there.

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

#25
post #4

I see it, and it shows up as installable, at https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpal...

Do you see the message that it will soon be unavailable? It's installable for me, with the following warning: >This extension may soon no longer be supported because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions.

Yes, I see that message. It's been there for awhile I think.

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

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post #14
post #2

It works better in Firefox anyway. Use Firefox and be happy: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Another alternative is to use Brave Browser

And catch another chromium 0day, good idea

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

#27

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…

Just to be clear:

OP likely copied the this share link first and then manually replaced www. to old. . But shared link never worked with old. prefix so it broke.

Reddit may or may not want to kill old.reddit but this isn't an example of it, inb4 people are going to take this opportunity to soapbox about it.

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

#28
post #16

Give me decent multi-profile support in firefox and I won't need a chromium browser anymore

Multi-profile support has been in FF since I started using it (at least 5 years ago?). The profile picker isn't as pretty as the Chrome window you get but its definitely there.

I've also been using it for years, and it seems to work exactly how it should, but it does seem to be a bit of a "hidden feature" in my opinion. It wasn't super easy to figure out that the feature existed and how to use it.

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

#29
post #16

Give me decent multi-profile support in firefox and I won't need a chromium browser anymore

Run with -P flag

Don’t know of a keyboard hotkey during launch for this, I keep a separate desktop shortcut to run w/ the profile manager. You can also make shortcuts to run with a specific profile.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions#-Profile...

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

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post #2

It works better in Firefox anyway. Use Firefox and be happy: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Firefox has a vested interest (money) now for people to watch (their network) ads. Expect to move Firefox to drop uBlock too (written in Firefox with uBlock)
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