Time to try Brave. Out of the box, it's very nice.
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
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#902Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until those things don't work any longer. Slowly the frog is boiled here.
They will continue to "work". Both v2 and v3 allows extensions to block elements from the DOM. However, only in v2 can they modify actual network calls. With v3, those network calls will still be made. Which means you are no longer protected from tracking and your web browsing experience is once again being slowed down by the loading of ads even if you don't see those ads
As I replied to your other comments, this is false. v3 block the network calls. They are not made. You are protected from tracking and nothing is slowed.
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#903Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's wrong. V3 doesn't allow network calls to be modified , for privacy reasons. It still allows them to be blocked , which is how the adblocking works in the first place. Contrary to what you say, v3 does block the tracking in the ad request as well as the bandwidth. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/d...
It only allows them to be blocked with static rulesets. And these rulesets have a maximum size of 50. There's no way this is large enough to cover all your websites. It's also trivial for an anti-adblock script to try a few different urls until it finds one that isn't in your static ruleset https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
The maximum number of rule sets is 50, not rules, as your own link clearly and unambiguously states.
The actual minimum (not maximum) number of supported rules is 30,000:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
In reality, Chrome supports over 10x that. And UBOL doesn't even use/need the minimum, sticking to around 17,000.
So that's plenty to cover all your websites. Which is why UBOL works perfectly fine in practice.
Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
#904Is there any justification for this beyond increasing Google's ad revenue?
Performance. For faster page loads. uBlock Origin Lite still blocks ads on Chrome, but it's faster than uBlock Origin. I don't expect Google's ad revenue has changed meaningfully at all, assuming people switch to uBlock Origin Lite.
The difference is negligible: https://nitter.net/gorhill/status/1792648742752981086 (uBOL appears as adblox).
Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
#905Earlier quoted context omitted.
It already went away, you need a special Firefox version to do that (that's the somehow part)
This is just flat out wrong. I am on regular Firefox and can install extensions from files. See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/find-and-install-add-on... and look under "How do I find and install add-ons?" > "For Advanced User"
Nope
> You can also install a signed add-on from a file
This means that unlike Chrome Firefox doesn't support the simple case of downloading an extension repo, tweaking a few things, and loading it
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#906Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kiwi Browser is officially discontinued https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1i86ybn/kiwi_brows...
Oh no! Thanks for the info. I'm assuming Edge on Android has all the crappy tracking and dark patterns of the desktop version?
FF mobile has mv2 support, as does its many forks.
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#908Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
#909There are other browsers you know Brave and such? It really saves you money from all the blocked ads traffic and is not a backdoor/spyware
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#910Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh no! Thanks for the info. I'm assuming Edge on Android has all the crappy tracking and dark patterns of the desktop version?
FF mobile has mv2 support, as does its many forks.
Yes. I used Firefox on Android for a long time, but I was annoyed by the performance and inability to save page as MHTML (that's a very niche peeve).