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

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Post by chii »

treebeard901 wrote: post #66

Forcing advertisements on everyone is about so much more than money. It is about money too obviously. I just think the general public is unaware what ads and ad network control over your online experience actually can accomplish. After seeing aspects of it weaponized against me, the impact it has on someone unaware of the technology and psychology involved honestly seems like a danger to the public itself. This may s…

So what is the exact impact? I keep hearing claims that advertising is bad, but never an actual example of an impact - something concrete.

Ads to me are merely a nuisance, and annoys me, rather than impact me in any dangerous way. Of course, i will do my utmost to remove it from my life, but i cannot see it be called a danger to the public. Calling it such will actually diminish the importance of other public dangers, such as lobbying, monopolistic corporations etc.

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

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Post by chii »

teo_zero wrote: post #73

Apart from personal opinions, is there any evidence this is due to Google sabotaging uBlock rather than a legitimate technical concern (V2 vs V3 manifest)? Could uBlock implement V3 without losing its functionality?

> Could uBlock implement V3 without losing its functionality?

no. V3 has some limitations on how many urls gets blocked, and has to be submitted ahead of time iirc.

It is high time the tech commmunity strongly encourage their friends and family to switch to firefox enmass.

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

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Post by josephcsible »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #71

here is an idea: take the power away from google and browsers and let's go back to a desktop/native solution of intercepting all network traffic. Browsers can't resist that, because corporate networks need to do TLS inspection (sometimes, they are legally required to do so). Another idea is, for the filtering system to operate a shadow DOM or an entire browser (like a selenium driver) that renders everything unfilter…

IMO, TLS inspection is an even bigger security risk than malware from ads is.

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

#84

Post by mjevans »

magicalhippo wrote: post #74
trustinmenowpls wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My biggest gripe with multi-profile support is that it mixes the taskbar icons in windows. There's a multi-step workaround that involves the registry and cloning programs files folders to fix this specific issue but you need to do it for each new profile and it breaks constantly with updates and doesn't work consistently even in between updates. Yes, containers solve some of the problems that chrome profiles attempt…

> My biggest gripe with multi-profile support is that it mixes the taskbar icons in windows. edit: never mind, I wasn't awake, see reply. FWIW on Windows this works fine for me. I run two different profiles. I get two separate taskbar icon groupings, they stay together and collapses independently. Must admit I've not used multiple profiles on my KDE install yet.

KDE Plasma (6) user - Firefox Multiple Profiles.

It's been far too long since I set it up, so I forget if I had to duplicate the application, if you do mine uses these settings:

  Firefox Profile Manager
  firefox
  --new-instance --ProfileManager
I prefer to NOT group windows so I can sort them manually, but also, offhand, because I believe it groups off of the executable name, not the profile.

If you right click on the Icons-and-Text Task Manager Settings, the Behavior tab has TWO options for Group: behaviors [Do Not Group] (I prefer this anyway) or [By Program Name] which I take to mean the executable. I'm not sure if it follows symlinks, but if that's an issue you can probably make a script to hardlink instead. A couple firefox-profilename applications that point back to firefox should work. You can even make a custom version of the launcher that invokes with a specific profile ID rather than selecting one.

As a further set of asides:

Firefox please 1) It'd be nice if firefox renamed it's arguments list to prefix it with the selected profile ID as the first item.

KDE Plasma please 2) It would be great if the grouping thing could be expanded to E.G. consume the program name + first two tokens of the arguments. Maybe with a customization per group.

KDE mega _please_ 2.b) Or even just to call an external program with a window ID handle and have it write back a string that's used as the group 'name'.

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

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Post by josephcsible »

Scokee wrote: post #21
ElectroNomad wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wdym? It’s also a chromium browser i.e. it’ll lose uBlock as well eventually

Why do you think this would happen? Brave incorporates ublock as part of their Rust based adblocking library https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

Because eventually there will be enough changes to the upstream Chromium codebase that the only way to keep these extensions working would be to stop following upstream, which would mean massively increased development costs.

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

#86

Post by thisislife2 »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #70
knowitnone wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If and when that happens, then I will move off Firefox

Where to? Sadly I'm on Windows and there are no more options that I can see. So it will be dual boot again in the future I guess + Ladybird.

Consider PaleMoon - http://www.palemoon.org/ - it is multi-platform and has support for an older version of uBlock Origin and that works fine.

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

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Post by gertop »

Scokee wrote: post #21
ElectroNomad wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wdym? It’s also a chromium browser i.e. it’ll lose uBlock as well eventually

Why do you think this would happen? Brave incorporates ublock as part of their Rust based adblocking library https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

They don't use ublock.

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

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Post by notepad0x90 »

josephcsible wrote: post #83
notepad0x90 wrote: post #71

here is an idea: take the power away from google and browsers and let's go back to a desktop/native solution of intercepting all network traffic. Browsers can't resist that, because corporate networks need to do TLS inspection (sometimes, they are legally required to do so). Another idea is, for the filtering system to operate a shadow DOM or an entire browser (like a selenium driver) that renders everything unfilter…

IMO, TLS inspection is an even bigger security risk than malware from ads is.

even locally, in a sandbox, written in rust, audited, the whole security theatrics included?
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