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Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by kaba0 »

ilovepitchdecks wrote: post #470
kaba0 wrote: post #445

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People are “easy” to manipulate, especially when your control reaches basically every aspect of their life. Hiding/downplaying few articles here, shoving another into my face there with an opaque algorithm will achieve basically anything over a long time. Also, you underestimate the effect of laziness. A company really has to do some atrocious thing to result in people leaving its services. Like, what would make the…

I'm going to rephrase my original comment, which got flagged: There's inherent hypocrisy in having the biggest monopoly of them all regulate smaller monopolies. Because they're 'monopolies'. Right.

I’m fairly sure I have no say in google’s politics, but I do have a (limited) say in my country’s. Also, the two don’t even play in the same field. The government is more like the referee in a sport.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by maccam94 »

wjnc wrote: post #455
iforgotpassword wrote: post #446

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That worked back then. Ten years ago, browsers were, compared to today, ridiculously simple and thus could easily be replaced. I wouldn't be surprised if today's Chrome had more LoC than Linux in 2010. Also, the mobile platform might be a good indicator of what ordinary people are willing to put up with. Chrome doesn't support extensions there, so everybody and their uncle is browsing the web with the full ad experie…

Let's get that quantified: Chromium LoC: 34,900,821 [1] Linux 2010: about 12 million [2] It appears that Chromium has more LoC than Linux. (With LoC being a bad measure, Linux being GNU/Linux, blah). Browsing is hard. [1] via Google since OpenHub appears down [2] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lines_of_Code_Linu...

I'm afk so I can't check the current numbers, but as of a year ago Linux was up to 27.8M loc: https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/06/linux_2020_kernel_sys...

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by kaba0 »

ilovepitchdecks wrote: post #468
MereInterest wrote: post #466

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Products are chosen by a weighted sample of the people, according to how much money somebody has access to. "Vote with your wallet" means that different people have different sized votes. "Vote with your wallet" is an inherently anti-democratic phrase.

How much money somebody has access to is directly correlated with how much time (of which everybody gets the same 24 hours a day) they spend on trying to earn money. People who care less about money will earn less and that is their own fault. The same is true in politics. Those who shout the loudest, win. A big wallet helps too. Ever heard of lobbying?

Wow.. so how many hours Jeff Bezos’s day contains? I’m fairly sure a low level worker at amazon spends much more time on work than any of the billionaires.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by kiwijamo »

kaba0 wrote: post #366
kiwijamo wrote: post #356

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I am certain that I've used Teams in Firefox? I regularly use other 365 webapps as well with no problems (apart from troubles that are also present in every other browsers).

I think joining a meeting itself is what doesn’t work (for me at least) under linux. I can log in and use other features.

Ah I see. My employer uses teams quite heavily for its other features but we use Zoom for meetings.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by coldpie »

podiki wrote: post #46

I can't live without uBlock Origin and uMatrix, and was sad to see uMatrix archived [0]. Still works great, but I'm wondering what will happen long term. Anyone also use both and since drop uMatrix for something else, or just uBlock? How is it? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532973

FWIW, I use uBO together with NoScript, on both desktop and on mobile (Android). I've never used uMatrix, and I've been told by others that it was a superior experience, but if you want a combination that is still being supported, I can recommend this combo.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by FalconSensei »

fn1 wrote: post #339
FalconSensei wrote: post #147

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This is something that I don't like about firefox. They have a ton of cool stuff, but I feel that they are always lacking a few things. What I always give as an example, is how to add custom searches (Amazon, Reddit, HN, etc), you save the query url and add a keyword. Works very well to type `rdt something` and have the results. But: there's no option in the menu to see all keywords/search engines you have registered…

Yes there is. Saved keywords are just (Parametersteuerung) bookmarks so open the bookmark manager and you will find them.

I know they are bookmarks. But the point is that there is no way in the bookmark manager to filter bookmarks that have keywords.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by FalconSensei »

diragon wrote: post #448

I have difficulties understanding why everyone's using Chrome-based browsers, when it's obvious how bad they are for privacy.

I think I've tried migrating away from Chrome like 5 or 6 times. Always come back because it usability (for me) is not there, and things require workarounds[0]. Last time I tried firefox I abandoned it again because of these reasons [1]. So, for me, using Chrome feels more natural, and Firefox feels like a chore and I'm constantly annoyed that things work differently than the way I'm used to. Considering most people - not talking about HN audience, but general population - absolutely hate any kind of change, it's easy to see how people would try firefox, and then abandon it because it works differently.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756575

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756622

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by FalconSensei »

matkoniecz wrote: post #449
diragon wrote: post #448

I have difficulties understanding why everyone's using Chrome-based browsers, when it's obvious how bad they are for privacy.

Many people do not really care about privacy or are not convinced that Firefox is significantly better.

> Firefox is significantly better

Most people use browsers for facebook, gmail, youtube, and things like banking, taxes, etc. It's common that, when facing any issue when using Firefox - with banking and government sites, you are going to be told to try using chrome. So, for the end user, chrome is the better browser, as more sites work properly on it.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by ilovepitchdecks »

kaba0 wrote: post #471
ilovepitchdecks wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to rephrase my original comment, which got flagged: There's inherent hypocrisy in having the biggest monopoly of them all regulate smaller monopolies. Because they're 'monopolies'. Right.

I’m fairly sure I have no say in google’s politics, but I do have a (limited) say in my country’s. Also, the two don’t even play in the same field. The government is more like the referee in a sport.

Oh, but you do have a say: You can work for Google! It's the same as moving to a different country and becoming a citizen to be eligible to vote.

Referees, in comparison to governments, can be fired for doing a poor job.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by ziml77 »

mrob wrote: post #413
lone-commenter wrote: post #401

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> it would force advertisers to use less effective ad text to avoid filters. That seems counterproductive to me. I mean, ads would still be annoying. And that’s why we block them.

I decline to accept ads because I don't want professional manipulators tricking me into acting against my best interests. I consider myself fairly good at resisting manipulation, but these are highly skilled experts backed by the full power of modern neuroscience, and they aim to catch me off guard. Adverts are hazardous to view, and you should not do so without utmost mental focus and discipline, which is impractica…

"Tricked by professional manipulators". I like that phrasing over what I've tried to use: "mind control". Makes me sound like a conspiracy wacko.
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