Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 523 posts

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#91

Post by nonbirithm »

grenoire wrote: post #3

Honestly, I can't really browse on my phone anymore. I'm... spoiled by FF + uBlock and I can't tolerate all the distractions. Will we ever get enough traction on either blocking mechanisms or stop shoving ads everywhere? Will the general public experience the pleasures of an ad-less internet? P.S. I'm on an iPhone, blockers failed me so far. Thanks for the suggestions fellas.

If Mozilla can continue honing their mobile browsing team and keep alive a mobile web browser with pre-Manifest v3 WebExtension support, then maybe the status quo doesn't have to change. Advertisers can push whatever they want and the 0.1% of users that want to use uBlock can happily block them all. As far as the current landscape of adblocking goes, I have no real complaints.

If people try to encourage too much radical change with how ads are distributed, I fear that the advertising agencies will panic and all start to do what YouTube does, which is to serve the ads from the same domain as the content, rendering all domain-based adblocking useless. At that point, the only thing between the general Internet and ads will be uBlock, and if Google obtains complete control of the WebExtension standards, I'm not sure there would be anything else we could do.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#92

Post by milesvp »

paxys wrote: post #58
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

I have been using Firefox as my daily driver for 3+ years now. Haven't encountered a single case of sites working any worse than on Chrome. I also recently started using Firefox full-time on my work machine despite IT strongly mandating that all our tools only work on Chrome and everyone should use that. Have had zero problems (and we use every Google service under the sun).

I have to add my anecdata here as well. I’ve used firefox on *buntu for 8+ years as my primary browser, and have found I only need to open chrome ~1/mo for the rare case where I need chrome (and I suspect my issues may be more tied to linux than firefox specifically).

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#93

Post by sleepybrett »

shmerl wrote: post #41
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

Never really got the appeal of Chrome. Firefox worked very well for me for years.

Back when I first started using chrome it was the snappiest and had less memory usage than anything else on the block.

Then I started to think about what kind of tracking google was doing with it, so I tried out firefox... which was just as snappy and just as memory efficient.

Then I deleted chrome.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#94

Post by matheusmoreira »

themgt wrote: post #80
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

Google intentionally crippling their own free, market-dominant browser in a way that just-so-happens to make ad-blocking difficult honestly reminds me of the Microsoft anti-trust case back in the late 90s. Google is an ad company doing embrace-extend-extinguish on other markets just to optimize selling your eyes/attention to advertisers.

Google's changes actually make a lot of sense. 99% of extensions out there should not be able to touch user data at all due to the simple fact they'd abuse this privilege.

uBlock Origin just happens to be so incredibly important and trusted that an exception should be made for it.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#95

Post by HenryBemis »

stevewodil wrote: post #82
shmerl wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never really got the appeal of Chrome. Firefox worked very well for me for years.

Yeah I never really got the appeal of Firefox. Chrome worked very well for me for years.

So does the tracking ;)

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#96

Post by fsflover »

grenoire wrote: post #3

Honestly, I can't really browse on my phone anymore. I'm... spoiled by FF + uBlock and I can't tolerate all the distractions. Will we ever get enough traction on either blocking mechanisms or stop shoving ads everywhere? Will the general public experience the pleasures of an ad-less internet? P.S. I'm on an iPhone, blockers failed me so far. Thanks for the suggestions fellas.

Firefox with uBlock works fine on my Pinephone ;)

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#97

Post by shmerl »

sleepybrett wrote: post #93
shmerl wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never really got the appeal of Chrome. Firefox worked very well for me for years.

Back when I first started using chrome it was the snappiest and had less memory usage than anything else on the block. Then I started to think about what kind of tracking google was doing with it, so I tried out firefox... which was just as snappy and just as memory efficient. Then I deleted chrome.

I guess that performance gap didn't bother me at that point to switch to less privacy respecting browser and Firefox caught up well, so I never saw it as a problem.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#98

Post by jonathanlydall »

pcf wrote: post #17
ub99 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use AdGuard pro on an iPhone and generally don’t see any ads at all in Safari. I believe this app will block ads in any iOS browser.

AFAIK, ads can only be blocked in Safari on iOS. I have Adguard on my iPhone, but it only works in Safari – not Firefox, which is the browser I use. So that's very annoying.

Edge browser on iOS has an option to make use of content blockers in the same way that Safari does. Last I checked Chrome doesn’t.

I’m surprised to hear that Firefox doesn’t have the option to do so.

I don’t know if it’s just muscle memory, but Safari on iOS is still my browser of choice due to the way you open and close tabs in it.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#99

Post by jabroni_salad »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #87
ravenstine wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Firefox's shortcomings are overstated. Often they're actually Mozilla's rather than Firefox's. There are other things I consider superior about Firefox that Chrome has yet to implement: - Multi-account containers is a killer feature IMO. I have different containers for banking, Facebook, a container for every email, a container for every Google/YouTube account, and so forth. - The option to enable canvas perm…

Strong agree on multi account containers. Keep in mind though if you disable them they drop all settings, unlike every other add-on ... ever. Bug is three years old but maybe we can push it over the top: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...

There is also no way to rearrange your containers aside from deleting them and making new ones in the desired order. Since I am using this for o365 administration it is a little annoying that I can't keep them in alphabetical order to find them easily.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#100

Post by diroussel »

ravenstine wrote: post #81
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

I think Firefox's shortcomings are overstated. Often they're actually Mozilla's rather than Firefox's. There are other things I consider superior about Firefox that Chrome has yet to implement: - Multi-account containers is a killer feature IMO. I have different containers for banking, Facebook, a container for every email, a container for every Google/YouTube account, and so forth. - The option to enable canvas perm…

Let's not forget Tree Style Tabs, no other browser can do it. Great for the tab hoarders amongst us.
Post reply on HN