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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox::Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While I largely agree with the options that Tuta provides, I think the article could've been more succinct and to the point if they condensed all the Firefox forks like PaleMoon and WaterFox under one category. Also, I'm not sure if Brave should be on this list, not just because of their Chromium foundation but also because of their use of cryptocurrency, something I consider very suspicious and unsustainable. Finally, I question whether DuckDuckGo should be on the list. True, they are more private when compared to Google and all, but aren't they limited to what they can block through their contract with Microsoft? I remember hearing/reading something about that.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

why the Freenet logo and not I2P? Freenet is not designed with privacy in mind, unlike I2P which literally stands for the Invisible Internet Project.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

The best time was always.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Or you can DNS level blocking + NewPipe(SponsorBlock)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

pushed up glasses

It motivated me to finally set up pi hole in my old raspberry pi I wasnt using, so there's that

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Last I checked, Firefox had also been switching to Manifest v3 because they're also combating the tide of add-ons that pretend to do something useful, but actually steal your information. They asked uBlock at least a few times how they could build Manifest v3 in a way that'd be compatible. Instead of the browser asking about each URL, thereby giving the add-on access to personal information, uBlock could tell the browser what to block. uBlock's answer was always, "No. That's not good enough. Give the add-on access to URLs." It seemed to me like every time uBlock was approached, they turned to news sites to complain and IIR, the feature that would have given uBlock some functionality was removed from v3 because if nobody's going to use it, why build it?

I wonder, now that uBlock has conflated the discussion of, "How much should extensions be able to see and modify URLs you're visiting?", with, "v3 is a war on ad blockers!", how quickly Firefox will move forward with v3, if at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think a lot of people don't realize what a gaping security hole extensions can be. Back in the 2000s, I'd install almost anything that seemed useful without realizing the amount of data that goes through them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (6 children)

In my former job, I had no choice but use Chrome due to work rules. If I couldn't have installed uBlock at the time, it would have killed me. So I hope for people like me, there's at least an adblocker that has a small chance of working in Chrome.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I use Firefox but there are web apps that just plain do not test on it. Office 365 is one of those and Word is basically non functional...more than normal.

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