Time to switch to uBlock Lite or another ad blocker.
  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    148·
    5 months ago

    “Time to switch to uBlock Lite or another ad blocker”

    No. Time to switch to Firefox or derivative such as Librewolf.

    • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      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.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
      415·
      5 months ago

      Brave is actually very good and seems to have a great blocker

      ps. their mobile browser has also been great on older phones

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        No. Brave has a history of modifying links you click on to add affiliate information. The only time to use Brave is if user agent spoofing for “chrome only” websites doesn’t make it work.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        To add: the CEO got kicked out of Mozilla and switched to crypto after he was caught donating to outlaw gay marriage.

        • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          5 months ago

          that was before 2008 as far as i can tell, has eich and/or the organisation continued to act homophobicly?

          • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            He got caught sending money to a bigoted organization, got in trouble, and then embraced dark money.

            Until he makes it right to the LGBTQ+ community and makes his finances public, only a fool or another bigot would give him the benefit of the doubt.

            • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              5 months ago

              i didn’t see any mentions of eich using dark money can you link me to more info? that’s interesting

    • Tux@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      323·
      5 months ago

      Just like how Micro$oft Windows is advertsiting Linux, Google Chrome advertsites Firefox!

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        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.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        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” 🫂

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      5 months ago

      Imagine having an OS that doesn’t come with a proper package manager (and Firefox installed by default, for that matter).

    • piecat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      Just wait, there will be “features” that are mandatory on most sites, only supported in chrome.

      • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        5 months ago

        So download a user agent switcher and set it to show you as using chrome. This is what i do with firefox and i haven’t run across a site that thinks i’m using firefox.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    5 months ago

    I have always used Firefox on all my devices, except for one: the Chromebook I was forced to buy because of compatibility with my college’s test proctoring spyware.

    On that device, not only did uBlock Origin quit working the other day, but today Chrome even kept disabling uBlock Lite with the error message that “This extension reloaded itself too frequently”. It could be some kind of legitimate bug, but it sure feels a lot like foul play on Google’s part.

  • nh5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    5 months ago

    Between Manifest V3 and the Play Integrity API, Google is really trying hard to kill the open internet and android.

  • aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    5 months ago

    Stopped using that garbage browser a couple of weeks ago. Hardened Firefox ftw. Just using stock Firefox isn’t enough if you’re concerned about your privacy on the internet btw. If all you’re looking for is an ad free experience tho, then stock Firefox should be enough.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      Firefox’s future isn’t looking good with all that layoffs and lost money. I am very scared that it might go the way of Opera, and then we will trully have nothing left.

        • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Those are made on Firefox engine. That is made and maintained by the company Mozilla. Which is experiencing those problems.
          It’s like those people who say that they don’t use chrome because it’s shit and breaks privacy, they use edge and brave.

          • aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            5 months ago

            Firefox is a fully open source browser. Whether or not it fails and goes down doesn’t really matter, as its source code is out there for anyone to use, and build a browser off of it.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    It’s totally ok. I’ve phased Chrome out in the beginning of the year already.

  • raldone01@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    I don’t understand why all these chrome derivatives and firefox don’t just band together and extend manifest v3 with some vendored standardised extension that addresses the limitations.

    Browsers do that for CSS and JavaScript features already. An extension could just check if the browser supports the “unlimited filters” option and use it if its available.

    I have never researched it but heard that the permissions of manifest v3 are much better for privacy.

    I am in favor of removing manifest v2 if the vendored extension becomes a reality.

    Browsers already have too much complexity, lines of code and feature creep.

  • peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    I 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.

  • intro@programming.devEnglish
    54·
    5 months ago

    I stopped using adblockers and simply set the entire operating system to use Mullvad’s DNS over HTTPS/TLS, specifically the adblock.dns.mullvad.net option. It doesn’t have all the other uBlock features, but all ads are blocked in all browsers.

    • micka190@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      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.