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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

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Post by chii »

anticensor wrote: post #325
chii wrote: post #232

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they can easily just blacklist ubo if they really wanted to remove it. And they can make it plausibly deniable - by blacklisting the extension id of anything that is in the chrome extension store that originally had manifestV2 (which will have some collateral damage, but obviously google doesn't care).

But that would also harm companies that actually intend to switch to a v3 based replacement but need a bit of time to complete the development.

That's what the registry entry for the manifestV2 time extension is for - this was actually known for several years already, and 2025 june is meant to have been the deadline for that development.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by jldl805 »

Kwpolska wrote: post #40
jldl805 wrote: post #14

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Firefox on ChromeOS sucks though. Just went through this, tried Canary, etc. Went back to Chrome.

Get a real computer.

I have like 8 running right now lol. 3 linux, 4 windows, 1 chromeos.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by jldl805 »

olyjohn wrote: post #21
jldl805 wrote: post #14

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Firefox on ChromeOS sucks though. Just went through this, tried Canary, etc. Went back to Chrome.

Bypass ChromeOS alltogether. Use a different Linux distro.

I do. But I have a chromebook too.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by jen20 »

asdff wrote: post #293
adregan wrote: post #265

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I find I am enjoying the syncing features of Safari (and iOS), and it's much less resource intensive on my 2019 MacBook Pro. Also, Safari seems to be the most fiddly when it comes to websites (either because it's stricter in some cases or has strange bugs in others), so I find I am catching more issues for web dev by using it.

Right on with safari not being used by webdevs. Safari is still my browser of choice when I want to hand someone my laptop for some purpose (like ordering food) and not have them complain about my tree style tabs. Some websites they clearly don’t test at all with safari. Big client websites too like tacobell.com, no safari testing at all. Menu images rendered with extra inch wide margins for some reason along with th…

Weird, next week will complete 21 years of my exclusively using Safari on the desktop, and I’ve yet to notice anything like this. Admittedly I’m not ordering from Taco Bell, but sites being unusably broken is simply a non-issue for me.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by eYrKEC2 »

mancerayder wrote: post #109
mancerayder wrote: post #73

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I'm using Brave and have no idea why you got downvoted. People are talking like Chrome and FF are the only two things on Earth.

The silent downvote curse spreads. Can someone kindly speak up and explain? What's wrong with talking about Brave ?

They don't like the politics of Brenden Eich.

As Lenin would say, "Who? Whom?"

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by weikju »

youngtaff wrote: post #159
weikju wrote: post #45

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> Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser? Here’s to hoping LadyBird remains non crazy and can be relevant by the time of their planned alpha release in 2026.

You might want to read back through the history of its creator

I have, and it's honestly none of my business and of no consequence to me [0].

[0] e.g. https://text.tchncs.de/latenightblog/ladybird-browser-and-dr...

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by taf2 »

peutetre wrote: post #4

Friends don't let friends use Chrome. Use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best with Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Sorry until Firefox wakes up and fixes bugs breaking the internet like this one https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1195654

I can sadly never recommend it

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by barrenko »

eYrKEC2 wrote: post #337
barrenko wrote: post #68

Seriously, what is a good alternative to Chrome's password management? For lazy end users.

Brave. It's Chrime with builtin ad blocking.

Migrated from Brave, didn't like it in the end, never now what's the deal wih their crypto token, seemed a nuisance.
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