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uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

attentive wrote: post #46
ac130kz wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it does not. Firefox still fully supports those manifest v2 handles.

My response was to a comment that it's still available on chrome store. I no longer see that comment. Assuming it was deleted, does HN change parent comments if parent was deleted? - that's misleading. I didn't comment on firefox at all.

Afaik deleted comments do not affect the hierarchy - comments are still shown as children of a comment that is marked as deleted and has no content.

It sure looks like you replied to the wrong comment by accident.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by rirrirler »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #27
rirrirler wrote: post #9

Link seems to be incorrect, should be: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/s/dGGy8PXAMG (www.reddit.com, not old.reddit.com) Which is this now removed post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1fhsai3/rest_in_pea... That had the title "Rest in peace" and contained this image: https://i.redd.it/ng75ptntl2pd1.png Which is a screenshot of the uBlock Origin page in the Chrome Web Store, displaying the message " This ext…

Just to be clear: OP likely copied the this share link first and then manually replaced www. to old. . But shared link never worked with old. prefix so it broke. Reddit may or may not want to kill old.reddit but this isn't an example of it, inb4 people are going to take this opportunity to soapbox about it.

As I understand it, HN itself automatically rewrites www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com in submitted links. This works for direct links to posts and comments, but not share links (containing "/s/" in the path) like the one for this post.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by eco »

danpalmer wrote: post #36

uBlock Origin Lite is available here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/... It does the same basic content blocking with no permissions required. Then you can opt-in sites for it to do more blocking, including I believe opt-ing in all sites for what appears to be the same blocking as regular uBlock Origin. Positive side: faster, fewer permissions by default, more control over permissions. Ne…

Another negative is it can only update the filter rules with an extension update (which Google controls the speed of). As far as I know, it hasn't been a problem yet but the fact that YouTube ad blocking started requiring frequent filter list updates suggests Google will likely take advantage of this.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by duskwuff »

lfmunoz4 wrote: post #41

not sure how ublock origin works but would it be possible to take the block list from ublock origin and block at router level?

No. A lot of uBlock's filters are applied based on properties of a request, or even of the context of that request. which aren't available outside the browser.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by seneca »

Google is really an awful company at this point. We need to build some viable competitor to the anchors they still have.

Firefox and Brave are fine as chrome alternatives. Google search is dying a slow death. We need a viable alternative to YouTube.

I dread Google getting a new lease on life through Waymo.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

devsda wrote: post #37
pushupentry1219 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Multi-profile support has been in FF since I started using it (at least 5 years ago?). The profile picker isn't as pretty as the Chrome window you get but its definitely there.

FF profiles do work. The problem is discoverability and UX. I believe, in chrome profile management is another menu option. In FF you have to use about:profiles or start Firefox with a specific command line argument. Unless you know about it or are actively looking for the feature, there's no way to know. If you are coming from Chrome, this unfortunately leaves the impression that Firefox doesn't support profiles (a…

CEO doing her job, making sure they stay feature impoverished to keep the funds flowing.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

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Post by eco »

Sytten wrote: post #16

Give me decent multi-profile support in firefox and I won't need a chromium browser anymore

Mozilla announced a few months ago they were working on Tab Groups, Vertical Tabs, Profile Management. I don't know if it's related but seemed to coincide with getting a new CEO.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re...

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