Happened to me a couple of days ago. I installed Ublock Lite and it seems “good enough”.
It doesn’t do content blocking unfortunately.
I highly doubt most people use content blocking so it will work fine for the average person.
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
#302Brave seems to work well with its privacy shield and a button to turn scripts off as-needed. People only focus on Firefox as an alternative. Am I missing something?
Brave CEO once said some mild hurty words about a fragile group, and so the lefty hive must not publicly support his endeavours (whilst using his JavaScript all day long lol).
As far as I know he didn't even say hurtful words. He made a personal monetary donation to a California amendment that passed.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're on to something. I'm signed into my TV and whenever friends cast a video Google mysteriously forgets that it's not allowed to show me ads.
>and whenever friends cast a video Google mysteriously forgets that it's not allowed to show me ads. That's because it's using their credentials when they cast, not yours.
Then why do I have it the other way where when I cast from a yt premium phone it still shows ads.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#304There has to be google engineers here. Does this just fall on deaf ears? I realize it’s a massive corp but imagine high ranking staff have a say and input. Maybe they don’t and Sundar isn’t worried about that. Or they do a simple cost analysis and short-term they see the benefit and are willing to to risk long term erosion that maybe be minimal. Weird returning to Firefox, but I did and there is nothing in chrome I m…
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…
> 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" replacing affiliate links so that they are getting paid for ads on peoples page, but also there have been numerous examples over the last year of extensions being sold and then having the extensions getting malware, crypto miners, etc.
Who controls the accounts and the distribution for all chrome plugins? Who allows automatic updates with no security screening to all chrome plugins? Who charges developers a fee to participate in the chrome extensions store?
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#305There has to be google engineers here. Does this just fall on deaf ears? I realize it’s a massive corp but imagine high ranking staff have a say and input. Maybe they don’t and Sundar isn’t worried about that. Or they do a simple cost analysis and short-term they see the benefit and are willing to to risk long term erosion that maybe be minimal. Weird returning to Firefox, but I did and there is nothing in chrome I m…
Google engineers have nothing to do with this decision. They are just employees.
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately paying for these services to avoid ads will never work. It was first promised by cable TV when they first scaled out coaxial around the country. You paid for TV in part to not have ads. That worked great until the advertisers increased their bid. It was tried when VHS kicked off but eventually even tapes rented from Blockbuster had ads once the advertisers increased their bid. And now it is happening to…
Agreed, but the subscription is generally month to month, so I take advantage until that happens and then cancel, like I did with the other crummy streaming services that have done this (Netflix, Prime, etc). That said, while I find those services pretty scummy for what they've done, I've fled back to spending a lot more time with books. There's plenty of them to read before I die and it's unlikely they'll be similar…
One of the nice things about TV/movies that you don't get with books is a "shared experience": you can't read a book with your girlfriend or your family, but sitting on the couch with your girlfriend and watching a movie is totally normal and enjoyable.
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or refuse to give in to extortion and don't.
What’s the extortion? I hate bait and switch done on me when they were giving free stuff out. I was there when creators were purely about having fun, trying stuff out and sharing it with the world. But for kids these days it mostly is fair game - you want to watch funny cat videos, pay up or watch ads. You can always have fun with friends from over the world and send each other videos no one is forcing you to post it…
Because the videos in YouTube premium still have ads. But because the ads are built-in to the videos by the "content creators" themselves, they call them "sponsor segments". YouTube Premium doesn't include SponsorBlock.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#308~$ cat /etc/chromium/policies/managed/ubo-policies.json { "ExtensionManifestV2Availability": 2 } Will save you for another year.
In windows start regedit as administrator and navigate to/create HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome.
Under the Chrome key, create a DWORD value named "ExtensionManifestV2Availability" with hex value 2.
Restart Chrome. If successful, you'll notice the ExtensionManifestV2Availability entry with value 2 in chrome://policy and the settings page will mention "managed by your organization".
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#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
It took a while to get used to vertical tabs but once that took, I have moved completely to Zen. It was good to see it move from alpha to beta recently.
Too bad they removed the ability to open the vertical tabs side bar on hover, that was a critical feature that caused me to go back to Firefox proper. I'll go back to Zen once they add it but to be honest, I'm not too sure what extra value Zen would bring me.
I was disappointed that they removed that from the settings menu, but it is still available as a 'zen mod'.
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#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or pay for it and support the people who's content you're watching and the company who's infrastructure is providing it.
Unfortunately paying for these services to avoid ads will never work. It was first promised by cable TV when they first scaled out coaxial around the country. You paid for TV in part to not have ads. That worked great until the advertisers increased their bid. It was tried when VHS kicked off but eventually even tapes rented from Blockbuster had ads once the advertisers increased their bid. And now it is happening to…
I've been using Google premium to not see ads for years now. It's great and apparently the video makers earn more too. I don't love Google's domination and some of their practices but this is pretty reasonable.