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PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.

If you have those one or two very specific websites that just cannot cope with Firefox, just use Chrome for them. They're likely not the ad-filled pages anyway, but rather some specific companies. We've done this for the IE in the past, we can do it today. It really doesn't take that much time. There's only one thing that will fix this situation long term and it's lowering chrome's market share. Don't stick with it a…

Most of those "cannot copes" can be fixed by changing the user agent to that of Chrome. Most sites that refuse to work in other browsers simply don't test on anything but Chrome and don't want the support burden.

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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How do you make sites that are only whitelist certain browsers to work under Firefox? Is there an app, extensions etc anything? For some handful of sites I have to keep a Chrome install around

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-st...

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.

IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sites.

For sites that break when using Firefox, you can report them here: https://webcompat.com/

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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How do you make sites that are only whitelist certain browsers to work under Firefox? Is there an app, extensions etc anything? For some handful of sites I have to keep a Chrome install around

I just keep a Chrome install around and when a website seems like it's misbehaving I just fire it up in Chrome.

It's a bunch of baggage to have around, but it's useful for other stuff. Like when you hit your monthly limit of free articles you can just fire it up in Chrome and now you've doubled your monthly free limit!

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