I've switched to Vivaldi. Most productive browser so far.
Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
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Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#222Friends don't let friends use Chrome. Use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best with Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
yes I switched from Chrome to FF for this exact reason but my oh my is FF so slow and laggy!
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#223I already stopped using Chrome about 6 months ago, for this very reason. Firefox works great and it was really easy to migrate and not look back.
ChromeOS also went downhill. I am slowly migrating older family devices over to Lubuntu or maybe another lightweight distro.
Google needs Chrome and Android freed from their sticky fingers.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
So one inconsistent bug, that only happens for a small subset and there’s no bug report filed makes FF suck on Macs. Hyperbole much?
No, it's one example of an otherwise broken and lacklustre browser. It's the only browser that has issues with website functionality.
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Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#225This is nothing but the best of news. People will finally leave the Chrome trap
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
These are the instructions for Windows from OP's reddit post: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/29... So much more complicated.
>So much more complicated. Are you one of those guys[1] who doesn't understand files and folders? Seriously, the only thing you're exhibiting is your abject ignorance of Windows and possibly computers in general which are not something you should be proud of. [1]: https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/09/27/2032200/students-do...
Its not even that. They say its more complicated but it's basically the exact same thing. Registry entry's are arguably the windows equivalent of a Mac os plist.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
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FAANG engineers in general are remarkably well informed as to who is buttering their bread. You may assume that Google engineers are excruciatingly aware (particularly after several rounds of layoffs) that their continued paychecks and stock grant value depend on continuing to firehose advertising into the face of the general public from every possible angle.
The entire internet runs on ads unfortunately. I ditched YouTube entirely since this year because I got fed up with the commercial breaks but I am 41 I no longer need to know about the memes and trends.
You don't have to ditch YouTube to avoid annoying commercial breaks. Any decent ad-blocker will skip the ads in YouTube videos, or you can even use an alternative viewer like SmartTube.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
IMO it’s a matter of principle. Mozilla is supposed to be a non-profit that exists to support the development of a FOSS browser and its related projects. Over the years it seems like they’ve strayed from this mission, behaving more and more like the big corporations they claim not to be like
> IMO it’s a matter of principle.
Eh? So Chrome should be used because Google has no principles?
Here's the Mozilla Manifesto:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/
They explicitly state that they want the internet to benefit the public good as well as commercial use.
Principle number 9 is: "Commercial involvement in the development of the internet brings many benefits; a balance between commercial profit and public benefit is critical."
Mozilla clearly strikes that balance better than Google does.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
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^w is delete word in vim/bash/everywhere else. It’s terrible whenever I accidentally type this in the browser and the window closes. I typically close terminal windows with ctrl-d so I have this mapped in my browser as well. It’s really muscle memory and I do not want to change it
By that same logic, ^w is used as close window everywhere else
Not in Windows (pun unintended) where it works only in Explorer.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
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So there are multiple factors here - I used to work on browsers so have some experience here :D First off, there are legitimate security concerns with the kind of functionality required for effective ad blocking given the immense work the ad industry (i.e google) have put into preventing purely static filters is also very powerful for exploitation. Those powers can (and have been) abused: the recent news about "Honey…
Please show me a real-world page that performs worse on Chrome with no extensions than on Chrome with Unlock Origin.
That would be really easy (though it probably wouldn't be perceptible by humans, but you'd certainly see it if you look at actual CPU and memory usage): just look at some simple webpage that's only static HTML. uBO uses resources, so of course it's going to perform worse not having it there at all. And going through tens of thousands of filter rules isn't exactly a trivial task.
However, at some point, the resources saved (by blocking ads running JS) will outweigh the resources used by the ad-blocker. In typical modern web pages, that bar is probably pretty low, because there's SO much BS advertising and tracking.