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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago

Use Firefox.

This is the easiest problem to solve.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This has been coming since they announced Manifest v3. Anyone paying any attention at all knew this was going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

and switched to Firefox if they weren't already using it

[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 days ago (2 children)

New? This is years in the working.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Literally told people to expect this if they keep using chrome and now they are in disbelief, more so when I send them the screen cap of me telling them to expect it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

But why would an ad company want to block ad blockers? That makes no sense...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who gives a fuck? Just stop using chrome

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There was a time not too long ago where I would have just assumed a move this clearly douchey and against your customers' desires would lead to nothing but a complete evacuation of those customers, but I've seen this movie play out enough times to know that somehow, someway, this will work out just fine for them. People will complain, swallow it whole, keep on using it, and finally just forget about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

this stumps me, when an alternatice can be installed in 2 seconds like every other app

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago

Switch to Firefox, be happy.

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

The fuck you mean “new”? They have been trying to force chromium based browsers on everyone in part for this exact reason

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Okay, thanks. I remember reading quite a bit about this but in another thread a while back, several people were recommending Brave. I was using it for a while and I do like the speed, especially on Android. I was using Firefox on both desktop and Androis but I think uBlock Origin on Firefox causes a 2-5 pause when accessing some websites. It's really weird and I haven't been able to figure it out.

Overall, I agree about Brave and the shady monetization stuff.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Imagine using you power to "vote for "/support/give power to a company who says it's gonna kill all ad-blockers to monopolise the ad market even further ... and then complain about the exact thing happening.

Using Chrome (or other Google products) is just supporting and enabling that.
If people didn't use it, none of it would have happened.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

That's why I don't use chrome.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That alone would be why it's good if they had to sell it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The only issue with forcing them to sell it is Mozilla will lose most of its income stream. Hopfully selling it causes much branching making it harder to target firefox in making websites uncompatable.

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

The amount of disconnect with reality in the comments on this is / will continue to be hilarious

[–] nicomachus 4 points 2 days ago

Chrome is shit. Never liked it and only use it at work.

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

How is uBO Lite different from regular uBO?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

No permissions, unable to do some advanced blocking stuff, unable to pull an updated list of ad urls (which means you have to update the extension to get updated ad lists), and so on

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

(which means you have to update the extension to get updated ad lists)

Extensions get updated automatically, though, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

yes, but ublock gets its blocklists from an external address, which cannot be done with manifest v3. and updating the extension is something that can take weeks until approved, while google could just outmaneuver ublock.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Despite all the drawbacks, so far I don't notice a difference.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Brave Browser if you still want a Chromium based browser. Also ranks as one of the best privacy browsers

https://privacytests.org/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Brave is malware that should never be used. If you need a Chromium based browser, Vivaldi is a good choice. Otherwise Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Brave has plenty of problems and chromium base is only one of them, here’s some easy examples from recent history:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caught-adding-its-own-referral-codes-to-some-cryptcurrency-trading-sites/

The issue came to widespread attention yesterday, when Twitter user @Cryptonator1337 pointed out that Brave Browser auto-filled a referral code to the end of the web address when "binance.us" is typed into the address bar. Binance is a cryptocurrency trading website, and with that referral code, Brave Software could earn 20% from trading fees for every account created using the link.

https://cryptobriefing.com/basic-attention-token-rebounds-despite-brave-autofill-controversy/

  • Brave browser reportedly redirected its users to the company's own referral links when navigating to different platforms such as Binance, Coinbase, and others.
  • Following the incident, the price of Basic Attention Token plummeted over 6%. 
  • But over the last few hours, the bulls appear to have stepped in, signaling that BAT is poised for further gains.

Best case scenario Brave is difficult to fully trust, why go out of your way to use a browser that tries to monetize your usage?

While we’re at it fuck every chromium-based browser. Why help google conquer the internet that much faster? Because that’s how they attack unlock origin and such, that’s how they introduce lag and pauses for people visiting YouTube on non chromium browsers, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago