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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)
(www.spacebar.news)
This finally made all my Chrome friends switch to the fox. about time
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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I mean it's just a browser. Bit of fiddling with the saved password and your go to go again to never look back. If they value their users they will improve again like Firefox did in the background over years.
I only hope a good search engine will appear again. I don't like the alternatives.
I have been using swisscows for about a month. It's no Google... But it seems to be better than what Google is now......
If you are smart, you have a password manager that you login once then everything is there and ready to login to every single account instantly.
I think I've made this comment before, but I really wish people would learn more about technologies like pihole. Get the ad once, get the hyperlink, add it to blacklist.
Too much effort for pretty much everything that normal AdBlock already did
But it's worth it.. pretty much can block anything and everything across the entire network - on all endpoints.
I run a pihole as well, but it is a very rudimentary tool compared to browser based adblockers like uBlock origin. It can only block DNS queries, and can't for example block ads if they are served from the same domain as the main site (i.e. youtube) or block specific elements on a page or block a specific script from running.
can’t for example block ads if they are served from the same domain as the main site (i.e. youtube) or block specific elements on a page or block a specific script from running.
Yeah that's true.
Until that ad also happens to be for a legitimate website you want to visit. I'd rather have a adblocker I can change right there in the website
That's a very rare case, and you can whitelist a domain using the pihole's web interface. It may require extra two clicks, but I had to do that maybe twice in the last year.
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