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Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Friends don't let friends use Chrome. Use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best with Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Yeah, I don't get all this fuss. I mean, if you block ads then do you think Chrome will also stop reporting to the mothership? Of course not. Use Firefox and simple be done with all this hoohah.

Blocking malvertisements is a matter of safety, I personally find the privacy aspect secondary to that.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Firefox on ChromeOS sucks though. Just went through this, tried Canary, etc. Went back to Chrome.

Just ChromeOS? Firefox on Mac sucks. Here is one example: Firefox's tracking of the mouse cursor is broken, and often (yes, it's inconsistent) applies a vector translation so when trying to click something like a button or menu, the cursor needs to be about 100 x-y pixels away from the target. Only Firefox native UI is affected. These are My_First_Program.app tier bugs that should not exist in mature, 20 year old sof…

I've seen the exact same problem on my mother's Mac and it's making her crazy. Haven't found a corresponding bug report, but it's sort of reassuring she's not alone with that annoying bug

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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If only Mozilla (the parent organization) wasn’t horrible. Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser?

What's so horrible about it? I don't like how they're pampering to the ad industry now but other than that I think they're pretty decent.

They also fired a whole bunch of software engineers (including everyone working on Servo), and then massively boosted their executives' salaries, so that was certainly something.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Lame. Try using NextDNS to block ads entirely instead of just in Chrome. Also, duck.com has a browser extension that can do this. You could also just use their browser instead.

DNS-level blocking is more or less what Chrome's more limited API allows you to do. Full-fat adblockers can do a lot more.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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There has to be google engineers here. Does this just fall on deaf ears? I realize it’s a massive corp but imagine high ranking staff have a say and input. Maybe they don’t and Sundar isn’t worried about that. Or they do a simple cost analysis and short-term they see the benefit and are willing to to risk long term erosion that maybe be minimal.

Weird returning to Firefox, but I did and there is nothing in chrome I miss.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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There has to be google engineers here. Does this just fall on deaf ears? I realize it’s a massive corp but imagine high ranking staff have a say and input. Maybe they don’t and Sundar isn’t worried about that. Or they do a simple cost analysis and short-term they see the benefit and are willing to to risk long term erosion that maybe be minimal. Weird returning to Firefox, but I did and there is nothing in chrome I m…

If only Stalin knew!

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Seriously, what is a good alternative to Chrome's password management? For lazy end users.

1password if you are willing to pay for it. If you’re not, Bitwarden is just as good and it’s free / open source.

Thank you all for the suggestions.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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There has to be google engineers here. Does this just fall on deaf ears? I realize it’s a massive corp but imagine high ranking staff have a say and input. Maybe they don’t and Sundar isn’t worried about that. Or they do a simple cost analysis and short-term they see the benefit and are willing to to risk long term erosion that maybe be minimal. Weird returning to Firefox, but I did and there is nothing in chrome I m…

Google is an advertising agency. It's a miracle blockers lasted this long.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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The removal can be bypassed until June 2025: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...

This is just kicking the can down the road. The bigger question is how the Chromium forks are going to respond long-term. I suspect the APIs enabling ad blocking are only going to get more clamped down requiring additional work for forks.

Brave has committed to do what they can as long as they can. But unsure how long and what that really turns out to be. https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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What are your qualms with Brave Browser?

I'm not convinced that it's much more than a Chrome skin with an integrated crypto scam.

I've used Brave for years. Never used any of the crypto features. It is just a solid, privacy-based, chromium-based browser.
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