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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We’ve been anticipating it for years, and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.

Now that it is finally happening, many seem to be oddly resigned to the idea that Google is taking away the best and most powerful ad content blocker available on any web browser today, with one article recommending people set up a DNS based content blocker on their network 😒 – instead of more obvious solutions.

I may not have blogged about this but I recently read an article from 1999 about why Gopher lost out to the Web, where Christopher Lee discusses the importance of the then-novel term “mind share” and how it played an important part in dictating why the web won out. In my last post, I touched on the importance of good information to democracies – the same applies to markets (including the browser market) – and it seems to me that we aren’t getting good information about this topic.

This post is me trying to give you that information, to help increase the mind share of an actual alternative. Enjoy!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Also Firefox mobile has nearly all of the extensions as the desktop version so it's more similar across all of your devices. Personally, I use LibreWolf on desktop and Mull on mobile, but they're just tweaked versions of Firefox with some bloat and telemetry removed and preconfigured to be more private.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago

Welcome back to Firefox everyone! At least if you're as old or older than I. 😁

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I still hope as part of the antitrust ruling, they rip chrome from Google and undo this crap.

I've had good luck with uBlock Lite.

(Yes I could swap browsers but nah).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Just bite the bullet.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Even in Vivaldi???

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I just use DNS or VPN for adblocking , no need for browser addons

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This isn't sufficient. I've been running DNS adblocking for a decade, advertisers have wised up to it and can easily sidestep it.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (5 children)

To my knowledge, DNS blockers not only miss a ton of ads, they also trigger several false positives.

A better solution is to switch to something not chromium like Firefox or whatever alternative the next Linux person to read this comment recommends

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

After i uninstalled chrome some time ago, i noticed it had been slowing down my entire system even when its not on. There is nothing of worth in using it or any other browser derived from it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can make a windows registry change to have Chrome let you keep using uBlock Origin, with the V2 manifest. It will buy you six more months, basically the enterprise support period.

There was a handy shortcut created by the Security Now podcast you can use as a one-click file to update the policy. The show notes also give a more detailed breakdown of what's going on.

The relevant section in the notes is page 10. The link to the file is page 12. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-995-notes.pdf

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Or just use Firefox and not deal with that.

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