PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium • Hacker News Board

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by coolelectronics » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:49 PM UTC

cranberryturkey wrote: post #24

firefox is still the best browser.

i do wish! firefox has web features missing that i need on a daily basis, and their developer team seems wholly uninterested on working on them at all

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:50 PM UTC

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Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by jay_kyburz » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:51 PM UTC

Question: Is it possible to run ad blocking at the OS level rather than in the browser? Requests to ad servers just never leave your PC? traffic from ad servers just never arrives at the browser?

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by sigma5 » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:51 PM UTC

I switched to firefox one year ago. Works fine!

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by rglullis » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:51 PM UTC

actinium226 wrote: post #42

scotthn wrote: post #4

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But Brave is based on Chrome, so won't it be affected the same way? And same for Arc?

No. Brave will keep supporting Manifest v2 extensions.

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:51 PM UTC

noman-land wrote: post #2

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Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by londons_explore » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:52 PM UTC

krackers wrote: post #33

>key was added and will presumably stay forever Nope, it will be removed after 1 year. There is a chance they delay it depending on how much the enterprises complain, but so long as all their big clients are migrated I doubt they care about the long-tail.

There's a good chance that whoever is driving this change within Google gets promoted/retires in less than a year, and then it gets left in limbo forever like so many other TODO():'s in the code...

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:52 PM UTC

TheGlav wrote: post #5

noman-land wrote: post #2

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It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.

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Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by stavros » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:52 PM UTC

hgs3 wrote: post #41

justahuman74 wrote: post #3

This seems like it's too hard to tell friends/family. Is the go-to now just 'install firefox'?

> This seems like it's too hard to tell friends/family. It's an opportunity for someone to write an "adblock fixer" app for the non-technical market.

I don't understand why people want to teach others how to cope with an abusive relationship, instead of telling them to leave.

Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

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Post by efangs » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 10:52 PM UTC

everyone should just have a pihole