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Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store (www.techspot.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/privacy

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Best to switch to Firefox anyways, or even better privacy enhanced LibreWolf

This project is a custom and independent version of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom. LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. This is achieved through our privacy and security oriented settings and patches. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

[–] FizzyOrange -4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

LibreWolf

Why are privacy/copyleft advocates so bad at naming?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They usually don't have marketing departments or focus groups.

[–] FizzyOrange -5 points 4 hours ago

You obviously don't need those to come up with a good name; just some taste. Signal is a great example. Ladybird and Servo are good browser names if you want to stick to that. LibreWolf? Jesus, come on guys. Forgejo is another terrible name I heard recently. Apparently it's Esperanto, like that makes it ok somehow.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What would you call it instead?

We already have (had) Iceweasel, IceCat and Waterfox among others. All nice word plays on the original Firefox name. LibreWolf follows along the same path.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago

I purged chrome as a browser from my system a while ago

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There's a MV3 alternate (same dev!) "uBlock Origin Lite" which this article completely misses out on mentioning: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh

There are certain websites and tools which need chrome/chromium making it a necessary evil; for example there's a new trend in firmware flashing of devices like ESP32 boards and HAM/GMRS radios which are web based and use Chrome tech. This new MV3 fork isn't as good as the original but it's better than nothing and does stop some ad trash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

Unless your firmware flasher is serving ads, and I really hope it isn't, there's no issue using chtome for things like that. Just use Firefox for everything else. It blocks more than just some ad trash. And you can have 2 browsers installed at the same time. They don't fight each other.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder how many still won't switch.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Majority. Never underestimate the power of pre-installed software and default settings. There is a reason why Google is still paying Firefox big bucks to be the default search engine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

its also the reason why in the U.S, the default messaging app is the most used. people are lazy unless forced to be given the option at the start.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Googles: "how to purge google from memory"

Everyone: Install Librewolf and Linux🌻