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

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Post by magicalhippo »

mjevans wrote: post #84
magicalhippo wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 I…

Actually I realized I totally forgot a crucial detail. I run my other profile using Firefox Beta, so they really are separate applications. I assume that would fully explain why they behave separately. Sorry about that.

Will have to test using multiple profiles using the same executable.

However, if the same "trick" works on Linux, perhaps it could be exploited by Firefox creating a separate executable that launches a specific profile.

We do that with our application, using the "self-extracting zip trick", ie appending data to the executable that is read during start-up.

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

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Post by thrdbndndn »

rirrirler wrote: post #52
thrdbndndn wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to be clear: OP likely copied the this share link first and then manually replaced www. to old. . But shared link never worked with old. prefix so it broke. Reddit may or may not want to kill old.reddit but this isn't an example of it, inb4 people are going to take this opportunity to soapbox about it.

As I understand it, HN itself automatically rewrites www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com in submitted links. This works for direct links to posts and comments, but not share links (containing "/s/" in the path) like the one for this post.

Ah thanks, I had no idea HN processes links. Sorry for assuming it was the OP.

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

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Post by 28304283409234 »

chii wrote: post #81
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…

You mean public harm other than tracking you across the entire web, profiling your personality, adservers getting hacked and serving malware, taking up cpu cycles and memory, stealing your attention which are experiences which are life?

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Post by SSLy »

rirrirler wrote: post #52
thrdbndndn wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to be clear: OP likely copied the this share link first and then manually replaced www. to old. . But shared link never worked with old. prefix so it broke. Reddit may or may not want to kill old.reddit but this isn't an example of it, inb4 people are going to take this opportunity to soapbox about it.

As I understand it, HN itself automatically rewrites www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com in submitted links. This works for direct links to posts and comments, but not share links (containing "/s/" in the path) like the one for this post.

the share /s/ links come from the new reddit, and are a sure way to spot someone using that interface instead of the proper one.

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

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Post by bubblesnort »

DaoVeles wrote: post #72
seneca wrote: post #56

Google is really an awful company at this point. We need to build some viable competitor to the anchors they still have. Firefox and Brave are fine as chrome alternatives. Google search is dying a slow death. We need a viable alternative to YouTube. I dread Google getting a new lease on life through Waymo.

At this point? They have been for a very long time. We saw this first hand when they almost single-handedly crushed Windows phone by essentially keeping them out of their walled garden. That was back in about 2010. That was when I swore off them as much as possible. Not because "poor Microsoft is hurt" but because they showed the kind of power they could flex on others. I only use them for the occasional youtube vide…

The Nokia Lumia was a terrible trainwreck. Microsoft could've done a better job, but they didn't. In hindsight, Nokia had just launched an incredible smartphone with a Debian-based OS and 2 years later they sealed a deal with Microsoft to make MS-Windows the new OS. Pretty good timing for Microsoft to kill off what they really hate. Especially considering that Ballmer was still their CEO at the time and he's known for saying "developers" a lot and calling Linux a cancer.

The thing that made Google evil at that time for me is when they introduced Google+. Before they launched it, you could sign up with fake names and they didn't care. G+ changed that. Nowadays they're making it impossible to register without a valid cell phone number.

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

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Post by raxxorraxor »

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…

I remember people arguing that manifest v3 would be a security improvement.

Disregarding reality, this is already quite subjective and depends if you trust sites more than your browser addons.

Tracking doesn't seem to be a relevant threat to those that defend this "evolution".

Also disregarded is the shitty situation of mobile OS that disempower otherwise quite powerful devices that Google would like to extend to web browsers.

Yes, you can fully construct a hypothetical situation where manifest v3 can be an improvement. Just like chastity belts shield your from STDs.

The same bunch of bullshit can be extended to ideas about "web integrity". I think it is time that people stop being idiots about it.

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

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Post by raxxorraxor »

sunaookami wrote: post #67
eco wrote: post #54

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Another negative is it can only update the filter rules with an extension update (which Google controls the speed of). As far as I know, it hasn't been a problem yet but the fact that YouTube ad blocking started requiring frequent filter list updates suggests Google will likely take advantage of this.

FYI Google recently introduced queue skipping when only the filter rules were updated. In theory, updates should then be available immediately: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/skip-review?hl=en

As long as Google wills it, but that isn't really something that improves my "security".

This is also about not getting sucked into an unwanted environment managed by Google.

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

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Post by porridgeraisin »

josephcsible wrote: post #85
Scokee wrote: post #21

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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.

But they don't do adblocking with ublock, so it'll be safe
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