Lynnesbian Jan 22, 2019

guess which all-powerful tech monopoly is breaking ublock origin (and umatrix, and likely many other similar add-ons, such as noscript) in their browser, which happens to be the most popular browser in the world?

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23

who could have foreseen this? who would ever think that an advertising company's web browser would end up breaking compatibility with an ad blocker? frankly i'm shocked

896897 - chromium - An open-source project to help move the web forward. - Monorail

Show threadwitch
@lynnesbian is that only on Chrome, or also on other chromium-based browsers?
Jan 23, 2019 at 4:05amWeb
Show threadLynnesbian Jan 23, 2019
@awitch all chromium based browsers
Show threadwitchJan 23, 2019

@lynnesbian
fak
baaakka  
gaggle can go eat its ads through the backend
(rant over)

I went from Firefox to Opera to now Vivaldi, all have pros and cons, but next up in the line for me seems to be Brave. Have you tried it?

Show threadLynnesbian Jan 23, 2019

@awitch brave has some kinda scummy business practices, like supplying a mode that blocks ads only to replace them with its own, and using a cryptocurrency called "basic attention tokens" to measure how effective their ads are

also, go quote wikipedia, "In a future version of the browser, the company intends to adopt a pay-to-surf business model."

Show threadwitchJan 23, 2019
@lynnesbian damn, sounds bad. Are there any relatively good “mainstream” options?
Show threadLynnesbian Jan 23, 2019

@awitch i use firefox  

it's not perfect but its the best out there imo

even if mozilla is making some really poor decisions rn

Show threadwitchJan 23, 2019
@lynnesbian oh, time to go back then?
I just really love Vivaldi’s customization options, just the tab stacks and tiling is the best imo
Show threadLynnesbian Jan 23, 2019
@awitch there's a tiling tab add-on for firefox called "tree style tabs", it's what i use 
Show threadwitchJan 23, 2019
@lynnesbian oh coool, I’ll look into that!! Thanks 
Show threadwitchJan 23, 2019
@lynnesbian thanks for the advice, I’ll be on the lookout for browsers 
Show threadLynnesbian Apr 21, 2019
look at me announcing it months before all the other techies. look how cool and up to date on information i am
Show threadMarkusApr 21, 2019
@lynnesbian @awitch isn't brave owned by that homophobe Eich, too? Or am I thinking of something else?
Show threadMarkusApr 21, 2019
@lynnesbian @awitch CEO, close enough