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Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by mvieira38 »

xboxnolifes wrote: post #206
sensanaty wrote: post #142

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> Firefox is different enough from Chrome that it's a big jump for people who are used to Chrome I find this notion completely baffling. I use Chrome, Firefox and Safari more or less daily cause I test in all 3, and other than Safari feeling clunkier and in general less power-user friendly, I can barely tell the difference between the 3, especially between chrome and FF (well, other than uBlock working better in FF a…

Firefox has multiple, user-affecting, memory leaks related to Youtube (unconfirmed if just youtube), going back at least 7 years. Tab scrollbar as no option to be disabled, so I had to write CSS to get tabs into a form close to what I would like similar to chrome. Tab mute icon has no (working) option to disable the click event, so I had to write CSS to remove it. I made some other changes, but I forget what. At leas…

FWIW I've been experiencing memory leaks on web Youtube for a month or two even on Chrome, particularly with livestreams

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by burnte »

triyambakam wrote: post #869
burnte wrote: post #835

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Yeah, if I want to turn it off manually for literally every site. I don't find that helpful.

Why would you want them off for every site? That's one of the main benefits to using Brave

Because I prefer another tool for that. That's why I'm complaining I can't REALLY turn it off.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by kldg »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #851
kldg wrote: post #607

Just for anyone here switching: Don't get firefox; get firefox developer edition. It's firefox but you don't need to pay Mozilla $20 and go through verification to local-load browser extensions you write for yourself. (you can do this on non-DE firefox but you have to reload extensions every time you restart browser) I've been off Chrome for a while after using it for about a decade. Firefox is nice to have around, b…

Does DE really persist local add-ons? Last time I tried, it still unloaded them on browser restarts.

yeah; I don't recall if I had to mess around with it at all to get it that way, but I have a couple addons I wrote which stay loaded after browser restarts and PC reboots. Edit: in about:config set xpinstall.signatures.required to false

(also sorry for going so aggro on FF in earlier comment; I guess I was hungry or something)

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by pnw »

pxoe wrote: post #660
pnw wrote: post #247

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I do turn off the wallet, VPN, AI and other bloat, but it's a minor inconvenience for a better browser.

That's an absurd amount of tuning to make a browser acceptable to use. What you're saying is that it's unusable as is out of the box.

It's literally a handful of options on the settings page.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by [deleted] »

herodoturtle wrote: post #577
0points wrote: post #527

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> except that for a majority of users, windows is where their applications are at - such as gaming, word processing, or some other thing. Until you switch to linux you won't understand how inferior your windows setup always was. It's hard for us to tell you what you are missing out on, you simply need to experience it. I mostly game in a Windows 10 VM running on my Linux desktop computer. Single keypress to switch to…

> I mostly game in a Windows 10 VM running on my Linux desktop computer. Single keypress to switch to Linux workspace. Apologies for hopping on this thread with off topic question, but would you mind describing your setup? I haven’t tried this in years, but last time I did I had trouble getting pass-through to some of my hardware, in particular my nvidia card. Agree with your approach 100%!

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Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by worik »

bornfreddy wrote: post #783
Filligree wrote: post #699

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Because, last time I tried it, Firefox decided to force Pocket integration and I accidentally uploaded some of my bookmarks. Also performance, but the behaviour of Mozilla is the main reason I keep away.

Pocket - fair enough (though Google probably uploads all it can). But performance? No way. Unless you are talking about Google properties which are specifically un-optimized for Firefox, in which case I don't think it is Firefox you should avoid.

> But performance?

A decade ago, yes. Firefox did have poor performance. It has gotten much better since.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by worik »

orwin wrote: post #655
worik wrote: post #352

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Yes to everything except the first statement: > The answer is antitrust. Anti-trust is crucial to make the capitalist economy work prperly, I agree But another answer is "Firefox"

> Anti-trust is crucial to make the capitalist economy work prperly No it isn't. If you want your capitalism to be liberal, you need antitrust, true. If you only want capitalism, and don't really care about the 'liberty' part, you can check the mercantile capitalism of old. It worked quite well for people with power.

Yes, that is correct

If you want capitalism to be the best it can be you need to brake up monopolies, continuously

You also need to manage externalities.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by worik »

Ygg2 wrote: post #658
orwin wrote: post #655

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> Anti-trust is crucial to make the capitalist economy work prperly No it isn't. If you want your capitalism to be liberal, you need antitrust, true. If you only want capitalism, and don't really care about the 'liberty' part, you can check the mercantile capitalism of old. It worked quite well for people with power.

> If you only want capitalism Yeah, I prefer not to die in a coal mine at ripe age of 14, so a coal baron can increase their wealth by 0.001%.

Totally

Capitalism is defensible as an economic system

It is indefensible as a social system. It must be subordinate to the social arrangements

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by userbinator »

ifwinterco wrote: post #571
userbinator wrote: post #506

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Google can see extension code, there's no way you could have used this to make an adblocker without them patching it. You're inventing a moral dilemma here that simply doesn't exist

That's why you keep stuff like this quiet, instead of snitching to the enemy. But the vote patterns here clearly show who's trying to control the narrative.
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