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Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

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Why do people still use Chrome? At this point every argument for switching to Chrome from IE back in the day now applies to Google Chrome.

I was recently at a local IT meetup, a majority of us were senior developers. And a topic took turn to browsers and Chrome at some point, so of course I've had to voice my two cents about Chrome monopoly and Firefox :) . A few guys were genuinely surprised and asked me "You are using Firefox?" as if it was something unthinkable. To me this was incomprehensible. I'm using FF on Windows since beta and FF on Android since its release and I'm baffled why doesn't anyone else (well, advertising is the answer of course).

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I restarted Chrome, it showed me a warning that uBlock Origin was disabled because of.. something about compatibility. I then went to "manage extensions" and clicked the button to turn it back on. Chrome said something to the effect of "Are you sure? That's an incompatible extension, so maybe don't turn it on." I clicked on "Turn it on anyway" and it's been fine since then. If I restart the browser again, uBlock…

Thanks. That's a huge relief. The internet - well, the internet as seen through chrome - is unbearable without uBlock Origin.

I had to change a registry setting for Chrome that controlled the policy of manifest versions for extensions.

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

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Why do people still use Chrome? At this point every argument for switching to Chrome from IE back in the day now applies to Google Chrome.

I use it. It works well. The new lens thing is cool. You really have to spend a while scouring tech forums to find out how you are a sinner for using it.

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

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Working fine on FireFox. Can someone from Chrome Confirm?

uBlock working fine on Chrome.

There seems an implication that Chrome will stop manifest v2 and then users will have to switch to uBlock Origin Lite.

Personally I'm not going to worry till that happens.

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

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I have been using AdGuardHome on two raspberry pi nodes and it is the best filter I ever had. 2,320,452 DNS Queries 117,334 Blocked by Filters (5.06%). Top blocked domains: eu-mobile.events.data.microsoft.com 45,3543 8.65% euc-word-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 7,573 6.45% metrics.icloud.com 6,475 5.52% 4...13.us-east-1.prod.service.minerva.devices.a2z.com 4,351 3.71% euc-excel-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 4,141 3.5…

Then it seems unlikely you've given ublock origin a real try. Not only can you just use the adguard filter lists in ublock origin, but DNS-based adblocking is and has been increasingly insufficient. What ublock origin can do is a strict superset of what adguard can do, and will perform better as you avoid sending out network requests at all.

Re: uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

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post #26
post #14

Why do people still use Chrome? At this point every argument for switching to Chrome from IE back in the day now applies to Google Chrome.

I use it. It works well. The new lens thing is cool. You really have to spend a while scouring tech forums to find out how you are a sinner for using it.

Yes, it obviously works well. I use it occasionally too. The question is why, culturally, there hasn’t been the same push towards something else when all the reasons we migrated off IE now apply to Chrome. Maybe Google permanently won the “browser placement on the internet’s homepage” game?
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