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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by culi »

Beijinger wrote: post #217
culi wrote: post #208

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You mean Bypass Paywalls Clean? It's illegal and it's not even on the Firefox extension store. You have to download it from some Russian Github alternative and manually install it. I will say however, it works remarkably well. I haven't seen a paywall in years!

Why should it be illegal?

I don't think it should but it was taken down from Firefox's store because of a DMCA copyright takedown. Firefox was required by law to remove it. Using the extension itself is a legal grey area, but distributing it is usually illegal.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by Dylan16807 »

swed420 wrote: post #168
aaplok wrote: post #166

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> Do we trust them or don't we? GP trusts them for reviewing external extension code, and ensure that it does not contain malware, but not for not inserting exception to their own telemetry if they wrote the code themselves. Or, more likely, they feel that having two independent actors collaborating on the extension (one by writing and the other by reviewing) yields a more trustworthy outcome than either actor on the…

That was a rhetorical question. Mozilla have given us plenty of reasons to not trust them, which makes it hilarious that anybody would think it's noteworthy they're reviewing the code of Raymond Hill of all people.

We could tell it was rhetorical, to imply the position was ridiculous. But when accepting nuance there is a real answer.

> Raymond Hill of all people.

As good as he's been, he's still just one person with a hobby project. Yes please review it!

And what if he gets hacked?

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by loeg »

windowliker wrote: post #154

I often forget how browsing the web looks for most people. Can't understand why they put up with it, or do they just think that it's part and parcel of the internet to have every page look like a slot machine from hell?

Chome with uBlock Lite looks, uh, pretty similar to Firefox with uBO.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by culi »

_ZeD_ wrote: post #244
Beijinger wrote: post #217

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Why should it be illegal?

It's not. Op is wrong

It's been taken down by DMCA copyright strikes on every western platform that could distribute it. That's why you can't find it on the Firefox extension store anymore

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by loeg »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #81
eahm wrote: post #76

Wtf, simply not true: Brave: chrome://flags/#brave-extensions-manifest-v2 > brave://settings/extensions/v2 > Enable uBlock Origin (Brave-hosted, even better). Helium comes with uBlock Origin pre-installed. Edge even still has it https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-ori... And I'm sure others ...I personally only use/test Brave, Brave Origin, Helium and Firefox.

The title says "major browser", which none of those are.

Well, Edge probably counts. I agree about the others.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by bardan »

matgessel wrote: post #123
cykros wrote: post #53

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There are ads on YouTube?

I got a Android tablet...I can't recommend it. YT has gotten pretty toxic with the dark patterns. There are the usual interstitial ads, but after you skip and go full screen there's another ad widget in the lower left of the video. You have carefully navigate a popup menu to dismiss it without triggering an ad popup. If you pause or double-tap to -10s the video it restores down and shows an ad on the right side. The…

NewPipe is a YT frontend that blocks ads, allows downloading, can run in the background and is generally great. It's a killer app for Android in my opinion.

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by Dylan16807 »

glenstein wrote: post #252
WorldMaker wrote: post #172

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Admiral and several other of the more obnoxious ad networks already claim that Firefox is an ad blocker simply because of its out-of-the-box blocking support for third-party cookies and those ad networks nag you to use another browser. If Firefox added actual ad blocking out of the box I can't imagine the havoc that would cause and how many more websites would claim that they don't work at all in Firefox.

A sharp point in this context because yet again, Mozilla faces contradictory demands in every direction. In today's edition, they are failing their users by not hard coding the ablocking in but also they need to give up on ad blocking because if they try they'll simply be blacklisted.

"Do X." versus "Don't do X." is a set of demands faced by most programs.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by hackernud3s »

EbNar wrote: post #226
hackernud3s wrote: post #98

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Brave blocks those ads anyway so no point in Ublock, maybe that's why it's left out. It does inject it's own ads though, and then there's all the crypto nonsense.

Ads on Brave are opt-in (and not embedded on webpages anyway) and the "crypto nonsense" is a way for them to try to stay afloat without having to accept money from Google and the likes.

Let's hear it then because I'm using Brave and don't see the opt-out.
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