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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by JodieBenitez »

bearjaws wrote: post #4

Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit... I migrated off Chrome as soon as this BS story about improving privacy, a joke coming from Google. Then the excuse was "well it improves performance", which they could easily do by marking extensions as low performance. If Google wanted to improve this they have an entire search engine where they could re-ran…

> Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit...

Thanks, now I have coffee on my keyboard.

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Post by herbst »

gruez wrote: post #615
jnathsf wrote: post #554

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Suggest using a service like NextDNS or Pi-hole for DYI ad blocking at the DNS/network level. I started with pi-hole but the hassle of updates and most importantly not having it available outside of my home network pushed me to a service like NextDNS which works on any network (5G, work, etc)

If you think manifest v3's adblocking is bad, DNS-based adblockers (eg. NextDNS or Pi-hole) is even worse. It can't do any filtering based on urls or elements, so any first party ads will be able to get through.

First party ads aren't evil usually tho. If someone builds their own ad infrastructure they might as well build it properly because they know it's going to be their fault if someone uploads something fishy.

In my experience only the big ad networks let you post anything. Small specialized ad platforms usually have actual moderation.

Edit:// by the way it wasn't that hard to get ads trough ublocks filters by self hosting them either. But that's rarely really evil and I never saw that abused.

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Post by hnben »

vezycash wrote: post #307

Major DOJ Antitrust Cases 1. United States v. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (1911) - Duration: 7 years (1904–1911) - Outcome: Standard Oil was ruled an illegal monopoly and broken up into 34 companies. 2. United States v. Microsoft Corp. (1998) - Duration: 4 years (1998–2002) - Outcome: Initially ordered to split, but after appeals, Microsoft avoided a breakup and instead agreed to business restrictions. 3. United S…

does google have a good relationship to the current administration?

I am not aware of a google-lobbyist being as close to trump as Zuckerberg and Musk are, and I definitely see the possibility of these two manipulating the administration against google.

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Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan »

ac29 wrote: post #850
justsid wrote: post #755

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What boggles my mind is the fact that surely people working for Google also use Chrome. Are they not up in arms internally because of how awful the web is without ad blocker? I have the same experience as you, every time I set up a new machine or watch friends/relatives browse the web, it just blows my mind how bad the unfiltered internet is.

> Are they not up in arms internally because of how awful the web is without ad blocker? Chrome still has many ad blockers. While I use chrome/chromium fairly little, ublock origin lite has worked well for me when I do. I'm aware older manifest V2 extensions are theoretically superior at blocking a wide variety of undesired content but if your main concern is not seeing ads, that is absolutely doable.

The core issue is that those ad blockers are easy to defeat. The only reason ad companies haven't invested energy in defeating them (yet) is because they're not popular enough.

Once they are the only option in Chrome, it's just a matter of time until Chrome becomes largely useless at blocking ads.

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Post by alok-g »

Stagnant wrote: post #68

For now you can still bring back manifest v2 support (which re-enables ublock origin if you haven't removed it) by making registry changes. Obviously only a temporary solution, might buy you a few months. Powershell commands to set them: 1. New-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome" -Force 2. New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome" -Name "ExtensionManifestV2Availability" -Value 2 -P…

Thanks! Good to know.

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Post by jessyco »

haswell wrote: post #124

After 10+ years as a primary browser, I've been 100% off of Chrome for about 1.5 years now as part of a broader effort to de-Google my life, and things have been going well. It's interesting to notice how much my internal feelings have shifted over the years. There have been a few rare occasions where I had to use a Chromium-based browser, and I felt the same "ick" I used to feel when forced to use Internet Explorer…

I've done this around the same time and agree. Now google is used as a service (Firebase for example). The only thing I haven't been able to effectively shake off is their Calendar. I know lots of other options are available the issue is connectivity with others.

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Post by presentation »

lolinder wrote: post #710
wussboy wrote: post #611

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This kind of thinking appears to be prevalent. "Firefox does one specific thing which I construe as evil. Therefore I use the competitor which also does this thing, plus dozens of others which are anti-competitive and generally destructive to the ecosystem." "The coleslaw in the Jedi salad bar has raisins. Therefore I joined the Sith. Their coleslaw also has raisins."

You misunderstand. The vast majority of people who complain about Mozilla on HN are Firefox users. We're the ones with the highest level of investment in the idea of an open web, so we're the ones who've stuck it out until Firefox's market share is all but gone. But because we care so much, you'll also frequently find us on here complaining that Mozilla is drunk driving their company and does not seem to realize that…

The one thing that is both expensive to maintain and that its users don’t pay a dime to use

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Post by kennysoona »

porker wrote: post #862
kennysoona wrote: post #538

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751 tabs open is just ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. Use some kind of tab session manager addon, and start organizing things - no need to have them all open concurrently.

757 now. I used to bookmark everything into Diigo. Then their Firefox extension stopped working... and I haven't got a cross-platform, cross-browser process up and running again. Is there a tab session manager that does that, and lets me send tabs from my current session to another session? E.g. I'm on my "Writing C for a hobby" session and quickly search for something cooking related, and then need to send that to m…

757 is too many though. If nothing else, if you couldn't find an extension that works, you could just use different browser profiles, or save the links in text files. It's just so ridiculous to have that many open when, without any doubt, you don't need them open all at once.

I use tab session manager on firefox. It doesn't easily let me shift around tabs inside a session, if I want to combine sessions I have to open both and save as a new session. It does allow duplicating and trimming tabs from a session though.

If you need better session management capability, you could probably get an LLM to extend/fork an existing extension to add what you need with about 30 minutes work.

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