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Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by GeekyBear »

ekianjo wrote: post #275
heresie-dabord wrote: post #272

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Multi-account containers are brilliant. I recommend the following extensions: * uBlock Origin * Privacy Badger * Multi-Account Containers * Flagfox * Cookie Autodelete

Extensions are potential sources of future vulnerabilities. The less the better.

If you choose Firefox, you can take advantage of the security vetting extensions must go through to become one of their recommended extensions.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by kxrm »

heresie-dabord wrote: post #272
agile-gift0262 wrote: post #117

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I switched to Firefox and it's been wonderful. I wonder why I didn't switch earlier. It's only been a couple of months, but I can't imagine going back to a browser without multi-account containers.

Multi-account containers are brilliant. I recommend the following extensions: * uBlock Origin * Privacy Badger * Multi-Account Containers * Flagfox * Cookie Autodelete

You really shouldn't double up on ad/tracking blockers. That can cause problems for the predefined filters. Go with one or the other. I prefer uBlock Origin personally.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by lucb1e »

ujkhsjkdhf234 wrote: post #42

No judgement but I would love to hear from Google employees who worked on this. Do they believe they are improving the internet in any way?

There is also an argument to be made that adblocking is immoral. I think the idea is pervasive enough to fill a team of willing people, especially if you pay them 100k/year to at least go along with it for the time being

I haven't made up my own mind about it yet, just that this might be a factor in why one would move the facilitating technology backwards in this way (and forwards in other ways, apparently: some people in the thread are reporting that uBlock Lite is faster. Not that I can tell the difference between a clean Firefox without add-ons (I regularly use that for work reasons) and a Firefox with uBlock Origin (my daily driver) except if the page is bogged down from all the ads)

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by Melatonic »

agile-gift0262 wrote: post #117
high_priest wrote: post #72

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Its not happening

I switched to Firefox and it's been wonderful. I wonder why I didn't switch earlier. It's only been a couple of months, but I can't imagine going back to a browser without multi-account containers.

Some of us never left !

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by julianz »

zos_kia wrote: post #245
oehpr wrote: post #241

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Keep chrome installed and fall back iff forced to. That way the majority of usage statistics show up as other browsers so when developers are making guesses at which browser to support, those statistics will push them away from chrome. Additionally: you would be surprised how infrequently you have to switch to chrome

Can't remember the last time I actually had to open a website on chrome for compatibility reasons. Is that still a thing?

The F1TV site didn't work on Firefox earlier this year but send to be fixed now, other than that I haven't had any issues.

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Post by deryilz »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #294
irrational wrote: post #291

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Because the author reported it. Personally I would have told the ublock origin developers instead of google.

To what end? So Google can see how it works and still patch it?

Yeah, this was my thought process. I get the appeal, but I don't think a million-user open-source extension is gonna start relying on a clear bug to function.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by cherryteastain »

xg15 wrote: post #225
agile-gift0262 wrote: post #117

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I switched to Firefox and it's been wonderful. I wonder why I didn't switch earlier. It's only been a couple of months, but I can't imagine going back to a browser without multi-account containers.

That's nice for you, but the monopoly is still there. In fact, you've strengthened Google's side in antitrust proceedings where they pretend they are not a monopoly because a small number of people use Firefox.

What do you propose then? Be a browser accelerationist, let Google do whatever the hell they want on your computer, and hope for big daddy government to tell them to stop?

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by rasz »

deryilz wrote: post #298
rasz wrote: post #276

> It was patched in Chrome 118 by checking whether extensions using opt_webViewInstanceId actually had WebView permissions soo will this still just work if we give uBo webview permission?

Unfortunately extensions can't have webview perms :(

"'webview' is only allowed for packaged apps, but this is a extension."

:( but maybe Vivaldi and Brave could remove this check just for fun.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by chrsw »

1oooqooq wrote: post #299
chrsw wrote: post #292

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I still find some pages don't work 100% correctly in Firefox. But not nearly enough to keep me from using it on my personal machines. (My employer doesn't allow any browser except Chrome and Edge). For me, the most important feature of a browser is the web experience. I guess it should be security but I try to be careful about what I do online, regardless of what browser I'm using. Many years ago I used to run the Fi…

> I still find some pages don't work 100% correctly in Firefox. find that hard to believe. but even if you find something using an api not implement by firefox, chances are you definitely do not want that feature anyway, the firefox gave in to really awful stuff and only drew the line on obviously egregious privacy violation ones.

It's rare. But it does happen. Razer had this problem until recently. Looks like they fixed it because I just checked and it seems fine now.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by Melatonic »

nfriedly wrote: post #168
galangalalgol wrote: post #145

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The only time I've used anything but firefox for the last. Well probably since netscape honestly? I am so old. Is to get the in flight entertainment to work on american, but firefox has worked for that for a few years now. People say chrome is faster and in the early 2000s I might have agreed, but now I really don't understand why anyone not on a mac or iphone isn't using Firefox. It is great.

Firefox is great on Mac too. You have a point about iPhones, though. It's almost pointless, but not quite: it does get a few features, like cross-platform sync. "Real" Firefox is one of the things that keeps me on Android.

Orion browser using Firefox plugins I have found to work quite well on iOS
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