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pop-ups (don't) rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No, I do not want to find hot singles in my area, I just want to watch my silly little shows!

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Switch to Firefox. Install Ublock Origin. Never see one again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

are there browsers even without adblock extensions that allow popups? I thought that was eradicated in mid 00s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Same on chrome, ublock does it's thing.

Also duckduckgo on mobile is pretty ok at it, fandom wikis still pop up videos and shit though

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I specifically recommend Firefox because Google's recent changes (depreciating manifest v2) will make UBO less and less effective over time on any Chromium based browser (which is basically every browser you've heard of that isn't Firefox). So if you want the best ad blocking experience, Firefox is the only real option going forward.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Absolutely right, i forgot that was coming.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Firefox on mobile also let's you install UBO, it's the only way I watch YouTube nowadays

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not iOS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

iOS uses Safari for webview and does not allow any other browsers, so other "browsers" you see on iOS are just Safari wrapped in different skins. That means their usual extensions wouldn't work.

There's a system-level content blocker feature that can block ads for Safari in iOS, but I don't know if there is anything quite comparable to uBlock Origin available.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

orion browser is webkit based but supports firefox/chromium extensions, so it works with ublock

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I literally haven't seen a pop-up that I didn't need to manually enable in years. Didn't realize they were still an issue...

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

I'm on mobile :|

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Android Firefox supports extensions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well, I'm not on android, so.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

My condolences.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

orion browser

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Ah yeah scratch what i said. Firefox is the ticket