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Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by the-pigeon »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #227
pnw_hazor wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general, William Barr, told lawmakers on Tuesday that he would focus attention on the “huge behemoths” in Silicon Valley at the center of a debate over antitrust enforcement. " https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-barr-antitrust/... We can only hope.

Beware the hidden intentions of all sides. Google (and the Silicon Valley behemoths): Currently know a lot of personal information about the citizenry The US Government: Wants to know this information Neither are necessarily deserving of or entitled to this information, so we shouldn't be cheering for either side. Antitrust is less the issue than personal information / privacy / data tracking regulation. Antitrust en…

Is there any reason to think the NSA doesn't have access to most of what US corporations have? Either legally through classified programs or illegally through various methods.

It's been confirmed they've had lots of forms of access many times in the past. Seems naive to believe anything would be different today.

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by needle0 »

jf wrote: post #3

I will stop using Chrome entirely if this change is made.

Those are hollow threats. If you really care, you all really ought to stop using Chrome now, regardless of whether they go through with this. Bitching on forums aren’t going to register on their metrics. Only actually stopping use will.

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Post by zcid »

jinnko wrote: post #222
albru123 wrote: post #171

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Firefox does not stack tabs like Chrome does and does not load all the restored session tabs at once either. Aren't these dumb design decisions enough to switch to a product where people actually think about how it's going to be used?

Laying all the trans at one cripples my core i8 system for some time. Firefox's lazy tab loading is a much better user experience. Together with TreeStyle Tabs and the recent multi-container add-on, Firefox is just a better experience.

I used to be a fanatic about tree style tabs, but due to the new api, it's unusable with containers. I recently switched over to vertical tabs for that reason. I miss the tree layout, but at least now my tabs maintain their ordering.

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

kowdermeister wrote: post #281
aerovistae wrote: post #14

Used to love google, for many many years. Slowly starting to despise them, though. It's different for everyone, but for me it started with this gmail redesign that made the product so slow it's almost worthless to me. And worst of all is I feel like there isn't even a good competing service to switch to. And now Chrome...

What are your HW specs? Gmail is fast as ever for me, the UI works just fine on both Mac and PC.

Quad core, sixteen gigs of RAM, and it takes several seconds of "Loading" to delete an email. It's comical. If you're using Chrome you might not have the issue, Google uses a lot of proprietary Chrome only tricks to make their websites even borderline usable.

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by dzader »

8bitsrule wrote: post #146
xkapastel wrote: post #50

I don't think I can go back to the internet without uBO+uMatrix. On a related note, why doesn't Chrome for Android have extensions? I get the sense it's because it was more strategic to ban extensions entirely than to allow ad blocking on mobile.

Can't remember the site, but uBO reported blocking over 1100 requests when I landed there the other day. I can't imagine browsing without it.

serious question - what sites are you visiting that you run into these issues? I use chrome without any adblock and have for as long as chrome has been around. I have NEVER once ran into this situation.

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by mark-r »

43920 wrote: post #264
mark-r wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's still a feature of Chrome that keeps me from switching - Chrome will show a lot more tabs open. I tend to leave a lot of inactive tabs to come back to later, but that means I need to see them all.

Try adjusting browser.tabs.tabMinWidth in about:config.

You're a life saver, thank you!

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by acrispino »

happybuy wrote: post #244

To defend Google a bit, it looks like the change is being put in place so that users would have more privacy – by stopping extensions accessing all active URLs. In essence they are copying what Apple did with Safari and their content blocking APIs. In this model, content blockers provide the browser with a set of blocking rules and the browser executes them against pages during render & load. Ad blocking can occur an…

How do you respond to the comment (#23) from the author of uBlock Origin & uMatrix describing the filtering capabilities that will be lost under the proposed declarativeNetRequest API?

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by mark-r »

sergiosgc wrote: post #234
mark-r wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's still a feature of Chrome that keeps me from switching - Chrome will show a lot more tabs open. I tend to leave a lot of inactive tabs to come back to later, but that means I need to see them all.

Install Tree Style Tab on Firefox. Moves tabs to a tree on the left. You can see a lot more, and better organized too. In the era of landscape screens, I think it's a must. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

I might have to try that. Looks like you still have the tabs at the top of the window too, not sure I'd like the visual clutter.
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