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Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by michaelmrose »

MacroChip wrote: post #76
crocsarecool wrote: post #13

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I can’t look up a recipe for boiled eggs without coming upon a 15 paragraph essay with ads in between each paragraph. It’s so obnoxious now. I don’t mind that people want to monetize, but it’s getting off putting when it is so obnoxious.

I made https://thisfoodblogdoesnotexist.com as satire. It uses GPT2 to generate blog content like those 15 paragraph essays.

2 years from now someone else's AI is generating content based on your content, a year later someone is ripping them off, a year later another script is filtering out the most useful stuff from the second guys stuff and its actually good content.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by boring_twenties »

karaterobot wrote: post #109
paxys wrote: post #58

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I have been using Firefox as my daily driver for 3+ years now. Haven't encountered a single case of sites working any worse than on Chrome. I also recently started using Firefox full-time on my work machine despite IT strongly mandating that all our tools only work on Chrome and everyone should use that. Have had zero problems (and we use every Google service under the sun).

> I have been using Firefox as my daily driver for 3+ years now. Haven't encountered a single case of sites working any worse than on Chrome. Really? It happens to me all the time. I can't log into my U.S. Bank account in Firefox, I can't submit a delivery order on Doordash in Firefox, and (just this morning) I couldn't validate a credit reporting form in Firefox. Now, despite those and many other examples, I continu…

I use DoorDash with no issues on Firefox, with both uBlock Origin and NoScript running, some but not all stuff whitelisted in the latter.

I also have some "unusual" settings in about:config that I mostly don't even remember, for instance disabling service workers outright.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by boring_twenties »

JackC wrote: post #134
karaterobot wrote: post #109

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> I have been using Firefox as my daily driver for 3+ years now. Haven't encountered a single case of sites working any worse than on Chrome. Really? It happens to me all the time. I can't log into my U.S. Bank account in Firefox, I can't submit a delivery order on Doordash in Firefox, and (just this morning) I couldn't validate a credit reporting form in Firefox. Now, despite those and many other examples, I continu…

Don't know if this is your issue, but it could be Enhanced Tracking Protection -- I have it turned up pretty high in Firefox and find that a lot of sites won't work until I turn it off. One example seems to be sites that use "Google Tag Manager."

Interesting, I blacklist googletagmanager.com in NoScript and have never had that break a single site.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by d110af5ccf »

m463 wrote: post #245
OJFord wrote: post #191

Such a shame uMatrix was discontinued. uBlock Origin comes close, and surpasses in some ways (I used both for that reason) but lacks separate control of cookies, images, scripts, etc. So you can't accept a particular third party's images without also accepting its scripts, cookies, etc. I mention it mainly in the hope that we can popularise its maintained fork 'nuTensor'. After trying uBlock (as in attempting to also…

I too use umatrix, but someone said ubo had an advanced setting that was like umatrix, so I was thinking about switching. Is this true or not? wait, here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=25920135

That comment:

> umatrix is built into ublock origin now, just enable advanced mode in ublock.

I have advanced mode enabled and don't see anything remotely resembling the uMatrix source vs type grid. There's a couple overly cryptic { allow block other } columns with rows corresponding to the source and that's it as far as I can tell. No { css image frame etc } columns in my UI.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by skizm »

pharmakom wrote: post #73

I love Firefox and I use it on principle. I don’t think I have a worse web experience, although that wouldn’t stop me. What does break websites is turning on anti-tracking measures. The number of times a site won’t work till I enable third party cookies shows the sad state of the web. Developers, do you only test in Chrome on Windows with default settings or something?

"Whatever gets my jira from the left side of the board to the right side of the board."

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by boring_twenties »

jamespullar wrote: post #113
diroussel wrote: post #100

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Let's not forget Tree Style Tabs, no other browser can do it. Great for the tab hoarders amongst us.

I don't often keep many tabs open, but still vastly prefer Tree Style Tabs. I primarily work on a widescreen monitor and would rather give up horizontal space rather than vertical.

Is there anyone on the planet who doesn't use a widescreen monitor these days?

Out of all my computers the only one I have is a Thinkpad T60, manufactured in 2006 if I'm not mistaken.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by nathcd »

d110af5ccf wrote: post #255
m463 wrote: post #245

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I too use umatrix, but someone said ubo had an advanced setting that was like umatrix, so I was thinking about switching. Is this true or not? wait, here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=25920135

That comment: > umatrix is built into ublock origin now, just enable advanced mode in ublock. I have advanced mode enabled and don't see anything remotely resembling the uMatrix source vs type grid. There's a couple overly cryptic { allow block other } columns with rows corresponding to the source and that's it as far as I can tell. No { css image frame etc } columns in my UI.

On the uBO popup, if you click "More" on the bottom left a few times, you eventually get a uMatrix-ish grid on the left side of the popup. (Not 100% sure if that's what you're looking for.) I agree with other commenters though that I don't really understand the uBO grid and found the uMatrix grid much more immediately accessible.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by Groxx »

>At browser launch, Firefox will wait for uBO to be up and ready before network requests are fired from already opened tab(s).

>This is not the case with Chromium-based browsers, i.e. tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is up and ready in Chromium-based browsers, while these are properly filtered in Firefox.

>Reliably blocking at browser launch is especially important for whoever uses default-deny mode for 3rd-party resources and/or JavaScript.

Oof. TIL. That makes blockers kinda crippled in chromes, if you expect them to actually block things.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by AegirLeet »

tkiolp4 wrote: post #181
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

It may sound dumb, but the only reason I don’t use FF is because of its UI. Somehow I think Chrome (and Safari) “look better” and make browsing more enjoyable. And this comes from a “techie” that knows exactly why, objectively, FF is probably better than Chrome in terms of privacy. Can’t Mozilla “just copy” the look and feel of Chrome or Safari while keeping FF’s internals untouched?

You can customize the UI using CSS. Look up userChrome.css.
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