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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of the extensions blocked is called "Trump blocker" - looks like they are getting into arse kissing too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's not blocked because of the "Trump" bit though, right? It's because it's not a manifest V3 extension

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah I only run chrome for Microsoft teams which I unfortunately still have to use.

The other day I saw a list of like 20 plugins, about 90% of what I have installed, banned. Not that I ever want chrome back but WTF?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have any chrome extensions because I don't use chrome. Everyone else should do the same.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

chrome just killed Ublock on me and EVERY site is now full of ads... I had no idea how bad it had become! What browser do you suggest?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Firefox or a fork of Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Speaking of Firefox forks... they're doing some really cool things with FireDragon and Zen Browser.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Firefox of course.

I'd also suggest their VPN, as its a cheaper mullvad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to use Selenium extension on Chrome to test my applications for Chrome compatibility. Chrome said they are disabling it now. Do you not want web applications to be easily tested for Chrome compatibility, Google?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

They are probably moving to Chrome DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

The sad thing is that people will see this and still try to find a way to keep using chrome instead of just moving to a browser that actually respects them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nope. Cloud to Butt still works for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Forgot about cloud to butt. We might need AI to butt with a backwards compatible blockchain to butt nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago

Stop. Using. Chrome.

Firefox is the way.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

For reals please don’t use chrome it’s a terrible browser

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I'm guessing not since I don't use google chrome and haven't for a while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I'm just worried about how zdnet presumes to know what I think.

Google kills things, that's what they do. They can get fucked.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is the list, for those who don't want to read it. I don't see Adguard Adblocker on there, surprisingly or SponsorBlock. Besides UBlock Origin, which is a staple extension of mine for all browsers and we've long knew about Google's approach to that. I haven't seen a lot of what I use/used on here. I don't even know most of these.

360 Ads Blocker
Adblock Fast
Awesome Bookmarks Button
Block Ads
Bookmark All
Bookmark It
Bookmark Lock
Bookmark Manager Speed Dial
Bookmark My Tabs
Comodo Ad Blocker
Comodo Online Security Pro
Content Blocker
Delicious Bookmark Bar Sync
Domain Blocker
Ethical AdBlock -- Ad Blocker
Fast Bookmark
Ghostery Private Search for Chrome
Google Ad Blocker
Google Privacy Shade
Hover Zoom+
Little Bookmark Box
Location Guard
MalwareAI Browser Security
Pinboard Bookmark Bar Sync
Popup Fixer
Privacy Cleaner
Privacy Extension
Private Bookmarker
Private Bookmarks
Simple Site Blocker
Touch VPN
Trump Blocker
TunnelBear Blocker
Website Blocker
Wikipedia Popup
YouTube Anywhere Remote
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pushbullet is also dead. ☹️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Hasn't it been dead for years? You can probably get the same functionality with other apps, depending on what you use it for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's a name I haven't heard in a long long time. I thought it died due to it being a privacy nightmare or something. There was some controversy at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's related, but an extension we use at work called Redirector was just disabled a few weeks ago for being "unsupported." It's the only reason I even used Chrome, so I guess I can go back to Safari. At home I only use Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you’re talking about the extension that looks like an R with a green arrow, the author passed away a couple years ago. https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector/issues/329

The repo has a new maintainer but there’s been no new releases since the maintainer doesn’t have access to the extension release pages. No surprise that a MV3 version hasn’t been worked on.

It still works on Firefox, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, thanks! I don't know if I can use Firefox at work. I'll have to see. Could be a good time to push Firefox there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Hopefully the new maintainer can get releases going again. It’s a great extension!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  1. Embrace
  2. Extend
  3. Extinguish <<< we are here
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

XMPP all over again.

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