TuxGoogle Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun | If you have uBlock Origin, you might notice Chrome automatically disabling the extension.
iiiChrome is the abblock-block?
🎶 I want to see your adblock-block-block
🎶 Your adblock-block
RangerJosieChrome only exists to download Firefox.
Just like how Micro$oft Windows advertsiting Linux, Google Chrome advertsites Firefox!
CatZoomiesMicrosoft Edge: “Thank you, Chrome, for sharing the load.”
Sad saga, but here we are. I remember when Chrome was new and brought much needed speed and low resource usage to the browsing experience of the day. I even got email from a Chrome engineer once about a bug I mentioned in a forum, asking me for more information.
Google was already an ad company by then so anyone could have looked forward to this inevitability. Some did. Most of us did not.
Chrome has just always been there for some younger people but it will now live in my memory as a fully encapsulated end-to-end enshittification experience that I really should have always expected.
And just like it used to be with Internet Explorer, I am forced to use Chrome at work all day because thats the IT & security approved / enterprise-managed browser.
Made me feel better when I said I wish I knew what would come, back in the day when I was installing Chrome for people - and someone here replied “hey we all wish we knew when we did that” 🫂
I, too, switched to Chrome around when they launched due to drastically better performance. But shortly after (a couple years?), I found out Opera had similar performance and had cool other features, so I switched to that. Opera then converted to a Chrome-clone, so I switched to Firefox, which had largely caught up w/ performance by that time.
If you have the option, request that Firefox be added to the supported app list or whatever by your IT team. Tell them you need some Firefox-specific extensions or something for your job.
I don’t really care what’s installed on my work computer, which I use solely for work purposes. Should I?
You’re the one using it, so I should think so…
Imagine having an OS that doesn’t come with a proper package manager (and Firefox installed by default, for that matter).
Zarlinwinget install firefox
No chrome (or edge) needed
You mean ’apt’.
Your package manager of choice :)
itslilithyou mean
{...}: { programs.firefox.enable = true; }Fun fact,
apt apparently is an alias to zypper on my openSUSE Leap system.
‘Yum’ could work too.
Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun
zeroshift11I recently started using Brave Browser and I noticed YouTube ads were starting to seep through randomly. Seems alright no far.
Chromium fork. Chromium code, Google defining compatibility standards. Firefox (or it’s forks) is the only real alternative.
ThePowerOfGeekNot sure why you are being downvoted just for not realizing about Brave using Chromium. That seems a bit harsh.
Here’s a list of non-Chromium web browsers from August for you or anyone else who might find it helpful.
Brave was astro-turfed by crypto-scammers for way too long to give people suggesting it now the benefit of the doubt.
Brave is like Chrome with spyware
Chrome is already spyware on its own. That’s basically the reason Chrome exists.
Two spies, one browser. Very efficient.
Once this starts affecting me is lonely what will push me to other Crowder’s I’ve never felt the need to leave chrome. I have a lot of Google related services and products so it would be hypocritical of me to draw an arbitrary line at browsers but not the rest, because personally i don’t care about tracking and whatnot cause it’s mostly just to serve targeted ads and I don’t see them for the most part so I don’t care, gimme all your cookies. But if I stay seeing ads again more prominently and there’s no workaround, then I’m out. Moving on.
And you think US government and 5 eyes countries won’t have access? What happens when that elaborate detailed profile data of yours gets hacked?
I live in the UK. I’m already watched by cctv in public almost at all times, I’m not bothered by people seeing what I do.
I’m in the UK also. I care about this though.
We got here by using their softslop... only way to kill them is now to move on to different merchants. deny parasite the profits.
Gaming 101
pro gamer move
peanuts4lifeI frequently forget that chrome is installed on my phone. The only time I’m forced to use it is about once a year when I order Papa John’s Pizza takeout. Their checkout page doesn’t seem to work in any other browser.
It’s so Papa John’s to support only one browser.
I stopped using adblockers and simply set my operating system to use Mullvad’s DNS over HTTPS/TLS. It doesn’t have all the ublock feature’s, but all ads are blocked in all browsers.
The big problem with DNS-based ad-blocking is that it doesn’t prevent redirects. Sure, you’ll get redirected to a harmless blank page, but then you need to go back to the previous page. You don’t have that issue with uBlock.
Yes, that happens when I click affiliate links. Blank page and then I go back.
dsilverzIt also doesn’t prevent advertisements carried through the website’s own domain. For example, lots of video platforms send their advertisements through the same domain as the content’s domain, so if you block that domain, you’ll also block the possibility of watching any content there. That’s why you need to have ad-blocking within the browser.
EngineerGamingAlso doesn’t do cosmetic filtering - like, it would remove the ad, but not the HTML box that used to contain it.
I like nextdns.io
“Time to switch to uBlock Lite of another ad blocker”
No. Time to switch to Firefox or derivative such as Librewolf.
Unfortunately I’m stuck with Chrome at work so having something like Ublock Lite available is somewhat helpful. I just hope it still blocks youtube ads because they’re the worst.
Qkallah you too work for a company that will let you install firefox but no extensions or addons??
fml
We handle a lot of IP so I can’t install anything on the PC that isn’t pre-approved (like MS Teams). I am able to add certain extensions like Ublock but not others like Keepa (Amazon price tracker).
Can you install Brave? Because that has ad-block built-in.
My company enforces specific add-ons for Firefox so I installed and use LibreWolf which our admins don’t lock down - only Chrome and Firefox. I wanted a browser that I would use separately from my work that didn’t specifically need their add-ons which include traffic sniffing crap. I know that if I want to do any personal browsing and guarantee it’s personal, I should use my own device but I was honestly just annoyed by the additional CPU cycles the security add-ons were using.
I strongly suspect that is exactly what they’re trying to stop.
You can’t run
firefox --profile /somewhere or (Windows) Firefox portable?
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CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]You should be able to bring up
about:profiles in your browser and set up and launch profiles from there.
Firefox portable keeps me sane at work. I don’t give a shit about the IT policy of either chrome or edge.
moe93I am running a portable LibreWolf on my work issued, locked-down-with-a-chastity-belt-and-thrown-the-keys-into-the-fires-of-Mount-Doom-in-Mordor laptop with uBlock extension installed.
Try that and see if it works.
clearly not that locked down if they’re allowing an external device access. cute story tho
This sort of exaggeration is typically used for comedic effect. Sorry for trying to throw a smile on a random person’s face. You must be very fun to hang around at parties.
Did they mention external device access? I only see a mention of portable LibreWolf which I assume is referring to the “can just be ran from a folder dropped anywhere on the filesystem” version of portable, not necessarily that it’s an external device.
it seems to work on youtube so far, but that could also be due to the previous custom filters I installed months ago when yt ramped up their “no adblocker” campaign. UBO still works in the sense that all of the filters and lists you’ve installed are still there and functioning, you just can’t update the extension. I’m still running UBO alongside UBO lite and it’s working fine for now (knock on wood) until I can afford a new Windows machine.
Contact the admin
JackbyDevI consider browser ab blocking a reasonable accomodation for ADHD and I’m not even joking. I haven’t had to ask for this yet but, seriously. Banner ads are extremely distracting.
I think it makes sense
when I swapped my laptops, I already had chrome on the newer ones which I’m still using, but when I heard about this ublock origin saga, I started putting all my passwords in protonpass, and customised my Firefox install to my liking, CSS and everything. All ready to switch now, and I’m gonna be thanking my past self profusely for actually choosing to switch instead of vegetating.