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PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by jbluepolarbear »

beervirus wrote: post #6

Color me shocked. Why does anyone use Chrome anymore? Firefox is better in every way, and it isn’t tied to the biggest data harvester the world has ever known.

Firefox burned me too bad to ever want to use it again, they too have deprecated extension frameworks (of which I maintained a couple and were subsequently broken). The Australis release was my last straw, it was so bad and ugly and took away most of the ui customizations. That release stated they didn’t care what there users felt, they’d change things so they could make money not preserve the web.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by sanchopanca »

miralize wrote: post #56

Time and time again I try to switch to Firefox. But it always seems to fall short (for me at least). I rely too much on separate profiles to disconnect work-related browsing from personal browsing. Separate bookmarks, sessions, browser plugins, sync preferences etc... A UI that's as powerful is literally all that is needed for me anyway. Its such a shame they've neglected the Profile Manager.

Have you tried Firefox containers[1]? Or another alternative could be two Firefox versions installed, regular and the developer edition.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by Dudemeister_ »

miralize wrote: post #56

Time and time again I try to switch to Firefox. But it always seems to fall short (for me at least). I rely too much on separate profiles to disconnect work-related browsing from personal browsing. Separate bookmarks, sessions, browser plugins, sync preferences etc... A UI that's as powerful is literally all that is needed for me anyway. Its such a shame they've neglected the Profile Manager.

You can run the profile manager from the terminal with `firefox --profilemanager` and manage the profiles from there Then you can create separate 'shortcuts' for each profile with this `firefox --profile [path to the profile]`

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by tut-urut-utut »

miralize wrote: post #56

Time and time again I try to switch to Firefox. But it always seems to fall short (for me at least). I rely too much on separate profiles to disconnect work-related browsing from personal browsing. Separate bookmarks, sessions, browser plugins, sync preferences etc... A UI that's as powerful is literally all that is needed for me anyway. Its such a shame they've neglected the Profile Manager.

I worked around it that I always use Chrome for work and Firefox privately. As opposed to private browsing I don't care if my work related browsing is tracked, slower, less secure or use more bandwidth. Let the company that mandates Chrome or Edge pay for the consequences.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by kadoban »

judge2020 wrote: post #76
Schinken_ wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But Firefox has Tab Containers? They are (afaik) not fully fledged profiles but rather separated containers (cookies, history etc)

None of the ‘etc’ includes things that would properly support separate work vs personal profiles to the point that your company doesn’t need to access your personal data to inspect it in case of discovery requests / court order. Having proper separate profiles also allows sync so that an office PC can use the work profile only, while at home you have access to both work + personal and your work profile syncs with tha…

I can't imagine discovery requests are going to be written in such a way that they're friendly to whatever browser separation you're using.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by Dudemeister_ »

vegai_ wrote: post #59

Fuck. Just when I got used to Chromium due its nice profiles feature. Sigh. Back to Firefox then. Or perhaps I should just stop using the web for anything except the necessities. Now that I think about it, that would probably make my life better in more than one way.

You can run the profile manager from the terminal with `firefox --profilemanager` and manage the profiles from there Then you can create separate 'shortcuts' for each profile with this `firefox --profile [path to the profile]`

This is a workaround for the lack of proper UI, maybe mozilla will make a better UI if users start asking for it

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by jqpabc123 »

scrollaway wrote: post #49
jqpabc123 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care if they have my data. You should. They're inventing new ways to use this data against you all the time. For example, there has been some effort to profile you based on the price you pay for goods on the internet. They assign you a "sucker score". Once you're classified as a sucker, the price you get offered is higher than what a "non-sucker" might receive. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/201…

And such practices, based on personalized profiles, should most likely be illegal. (Various other practices like these have been made illegal as well) Personally, I don't care that they're doing this (to me). I care more that they shouldn't be able to legally do it. And also, as other people have said: it's ads that are the problem. Not personalized ads. Ads in general. They're ugly, bad, awful, battery-sucking, head…

Buying and selling personal info is a multi-billion dollar industry with almost no regulation.

One of Trump's first acts as POTUS was to allow your ISP to get in on this action.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by ComodoHacker »

miralize wrote: post #56

Time and time again I try to switch to Firefox. But it always seems to fall short (for me at least). I rely too much on separate profiles to disconnect work-related browsing from personal browsing. Separate bookmarks, sessions, browser plugins, sync preferences etc... A UI that's as powerful is literally all that is needed for me anyway. Its such a shame they've neglected the Profile Manager.

What exactly prevents you from using Firefox profiles? They are working fine, for me at least. I can't see a reason for Firefox devs to be ashamed.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by Dudemeister_ »

vmception wrote: post #51
sva_ wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do Chromium-based browsers also adopt this Manifestv3? If so, isn't Brave Chromium-based?

No they don’t, they manually merge code from upstream if they like it. Since Brave doesnt like it they wont merge it.

Won't this create a problem for them when it comes to the extension store since no new v2 extensions will be able to be deployed there even though other chromium based browsers support them?

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by y4mi »

yuvadam wrote: post #71
miralize wrote: post #56

Time and time again I try to switch to Firefox. But it always seems to fall short (for me at least). I rely too much on separate profiles to disconnect work-related browsing from personal browsing. Separate bookmarks, sessions, browser plugins, sync preferences etc... A UI that's as powerful is literally all that is needed for me anyway. Its such a shame they've neglected the Profile Manager.

You can still manage profiles in FF via about:profiles, but I 100% agree it's not accessible enough.

the portable version is also an option if the user passes a location as the profile path. This can be made more convenient by adding shortcuts for each profile.

The UX could definitely be improved, but it's manageable in my opinion

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