Seriously, what is a good alternative to Chrome's password management? For lazy end users.
I set up Bitwarden for my dad who keeps forgetting his passwords. It seems to work well on his PC and Android phone.
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
#72Brave seems to work well with its privacy shield and a button to turn scripts off as-needed.
People only focus on Firefox as an alternative. Am I missing something?
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#73Both Brave & Opera have built in adblockers that are not dependent on Manifest to run. I haven't played with Opera too much, but Brave lets you add custom lists and works quite well. Combine that with a DNS based adblocker such as HaGeZi [1] or OISD from free DNS providers like ControlD or NextDNS and you'll be golden. [1] https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists?tab=readme-ov-file#...
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.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#74What can uBlock Origin do that one couldn't do with a sufficiently sophisticated SSL-terminating forward proxy?
Using a proxy to do DNS blocking has significant failures modes. They wont work on youtube because youtube uses the same endpoint to serve the videos and ads for starters.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#75Could someone explain in simple terms, what’s so tricky about spinning off a v2-compatible chromium fork?
Chromium is maintained by the largest ad company in the world.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#76Lame.
Try using NextDNS to block ads entirely instead of just in Chrome.
Also, duck.com has a browser extension that can do this. You could also just use their browser instead.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#77What can uBlock Origin do that one couldn't do with a sufficiently sophisticated SSL-terminating forward proxy?
provide a UI within the browser chrome
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#78Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bypass Chrome altogether. Use Firefox.
How can I swap ^W and ^D in Firefox? For Chrome I found an extension that works (…worked?) fine, the only thing for Firefox I found would be compiling it myself, which I find a much worse experience than compiling Chromium myself (neither of which I like doing)
What do those do?
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#80Friends don't let friends use Chrome. Use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best with Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Yeah, I don't get all this fuss. I mean, if you block ads then do you think Chrome will also stop reporting to the mothership? Of course not. Use Firefox and simple be done with all this hoohah.
> I mean, if you block ads then do you think Chrome will also stop reporting to the mothership?
I'm mostly interested in improving my browsing experience. Viewing the web without an adblocker is a nightmare, it makes some websites nigh-unusable.
The privacy issue is an issue, but it's not one that actively prevents me from reading things online.