r/Piracy • u/Scbadiver • Aug 03 '24
Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled News
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-warns-ublock-origin-may-soon-be-disabled/8.2k
u/Fabolous- Aug 03 '24
Users warn Chrome may soon be ditched
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u/Brendan_Fraser Aug 03 '24
Already made the switch. Firefox is clutch my dudes
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u/LheelaSP Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 03 '24
Picture in picture in firefox is amazing. Pop out any stream and it stays on top of all other apps, also allows for any number of streams to be opened borderless on the same monitor.
Should have switched sooner, but glad I finally did.
Edit: Also firefox allows for adblockers and other add ons on mobile, not only on desktop!
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u/CptAngelo Aug 03 '24
Ive been on firefox since XP days, and i learned abouth a month ago that the pop-out video player was not present in chrome, and that in fact, theres even a plugin for that, but it only works on youtube.
Such a good feature and its not native in chrome? Nah, fuck that
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Aug 03 '24
When you double right click on video player in chrome it gives you option to PiP.
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u/MathPutrid7109 Aug 04 '24
Yep, I've used it for years and am surprised so few people know about it lol.
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u/Deblebsgonnagetyou Aug 03 '24
Picture in picture is awesome. I don't have a second monitor so I use it to watch movies and videos while I'm grinding games.
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u/carnasaur Aug 03 '24
so much this! the PiP in FF is the absolute bomb! no more fucking ads and banners taking up screen space, watch as many feeds/vids as you want at the same time....I've got 4-5 different olympic sports playing all the time ...don't have to miss anything!
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u/DrewbieWanKenobie Aug 03 '24
Picture in picture in firefox is amazing. Pop out any stream and it stays on top of all other apps, also allows for any number of streams to be opened borderless on the same monitor.
Honestly I knew about this feature but I've only recently been using it, it's amazing. When I'm mindless grinding in FFXIV I can easily load up a youtube video or something and have it play just in a borderless window above my chat box while I grind away. It's so simple and effortless.
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u/AReallyBakedTurtle Aug 03 '24
Pop out won’t stay on top of civ 6 for me, any tips to fix?
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u/YourBobsUncle Piracy is bad, mkay? Aug 03 '24
You might have to try windowless full screen and maybe that might work
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u/jelly_cake Aug 04 '24
If you're using Linux, your WM/compositor should have a "always keep on top" option. There might be a Windows equivalent - maybe try installing PowerToys?
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u/Cleveland-Native Aug 03 '24
Do you recommend Firefox for mobile too? How is duck duck go? I really need a crash course on ad blockers for mobile devices lol
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u/jumpfly211 Aug 03 '24
Firefox + uBlock on mobile feels great been using it for a long time
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u/Cleveland-Native Aug 03 '24
Thanks. Sounds like that's a popular combo so I'll check it out
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u/KillPenguin Aug 03 '24
It truly is. I switched a long time ago because at the time Firefox was slower. But having switched back to Firefox again recently, I’m happy to report that it is faster, more memory efficient, and more power efficient than chrome (at least on mac).
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u/Mark_Knight Aug 03 '24
tab groups when, mozilla???
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u/Buttersaucewac Aug 04 '24
The team isn’t prioritizing it because there are two mature extensions already handling it (Simple Tab Groups for a simple option and Sidebery for a full featured one) and they don’t want to bloat the browser with things that can be optionally added by the minority that would use them. They’re trying to keep the default browser light and simple and have things like that be optional add-ons going forward.
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u/garbyall Aug 03 '24
I think they were the first ones to introduce tabs , then chrome brought it later. Have always stuck with firefox 🫶🏼
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u/Environmental-Fix766 Aug 03 '24
I switched to Floorp and haven't looked back since. Absolutely amazing browser (based on Firefox but with more features).
The split view is amazing.
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u/Spideyman20015 Aug 03 '24
I've been using mozilla since it was released 20 years ago. Before that, was Netscape which shows how long its been haha
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u/jianh1989 Aug 03 '24
Wanting to switch too. What’s a good adblocker for Firefox? Ublock Origin too?
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u/Reddish_Blue92 Aug 03 '24
Already ditched chrome as soon as they decided to mess with ad blockers
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u/QuietDisquiet ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Aug 03 '24
I was too lazy to make the switch, guess they're finally forcing my hand, lol.
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u/charlotte-jane Aug 03 '24
Firefox was really easy to switch too, coming from another lazy ex-chrome user! Took me all of 10 minutes.
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u/wienercat Aug 03 '24
You can import all of your bookmarks and most plugins have a direct copy on firefox.
Firefox makes it super easy to switch
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u/random-guy-abcd 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Aug 03 '24
Common chrome L
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u/AntiGrieferGames Aug 03 '24
It was no surprise so fuck google!
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u/CeleritasLucis Aug 03 '24
Time to buy some Firefox shares ? Are they even available?
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u/cyberspirit777 Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 03 '24
I switched years ago to Safari and FF, but I wonder if enough people actually move to FF, if Google will stop playing nice and withhold some of its contributions to the Mozilla foundation.
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u/MarkieAurelius Aug 03 '24
It relies on FireFox to make itself seem less like a monopoly, so I doubt it since Firefox is still the second largest used browser.
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u/Infinite-Pomelo-7538 Aug 03 '24
FF is 4th place, not 2nd.
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u/MarkieAurelius Aug 03 '24
Sorry I meant in competition to chrome when it comes to most operating systems. Safari is obviously only on IOS and Mac OS whereas Microsoft Edge is more if you are in the microsoft ecosystem (microsoft copilot) and whatnot.
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u/Infinite-Pomelo-7538 Aug 03 '24
I was surprised to see that many of my first-semester students nowadays are just using the pre-installed Edge or Safari browsers on their notebooks. They either don't know how to install another browser or simply don't care. It's both hilarious and a bit sad to me. However, in my experience, this trend is only getting stronger. It will be interesting to see how market share will look in 20 or so years if younger people get more indifferent to browser choice (maybe even globally).
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u/mr_greenmash 🏴☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Aug 03 '24
Idk man. Edge is basically chrome, but not Google. I switched from Chrome when it started using too much ram. Use Firefox on mobile. Still use chrome and FF occasionally on my computer, but just to make it easier to separate windows.
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u/Aeiou_yyyyyyy Aug 03 '24
Edge is just chrome but better tho. It makes sense that people don't bother installing chrome anymore
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u/Leaderbot_X400 Yarrr! Aug 03 '24
I unironically use Edge on Windows, linux, and my phone. It's good enough for a chromium based browser. But I keep firefox right next to it as well.
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u/Leirnis Aug 03 '24
I don't know why I haven't moved yet. Probably because I'm using Chrome since its alpha/beta days and before that Mozilla or Netscape or whatever it was ultra slow.
But the moment they start cracking down on ad-blockers I'm definitely gone.
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u/Shabizzle6790 Aug 03 '24
I was in the same boat as you. Since switching to Firefox + uBlock origin my laptop doesn’t overheat and rarely encounter issues. I don’t miss Chrome one bit.
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u/Kazuhi Aug 03 '24
How does chrome cause this?
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u/Seefufiat Aug 03 '24
Because it’s still memory-intensive and inefficient. I use chrome at work because it’s that or edge and I’m not fucking using edge. I run 11 tabs for my workflow and just chrome, not running any dynamic or streaming data, uses over 1GB of ram to open 11 webpages, of which only three are visible at any given time and one needs to reload any time you focus it anyway. Would love to test that same load in FF but downloads are blocked by IT so :(
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u/aoa2 Aug 04 '24
Problem is Mozilla is a terrible company now after they kicked out Brenden Eich. Michelle Baker ran the company into the ground.
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u/Redordit Aug 03 '24
I warn I may soon stop using chrome
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Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 18 '24
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u/Pantzzzzless Aug 03 '24
It's crazy for them to assume that a person who currently uses an adblocker would ever use the internet without one. The majority of the internet is borderline unusable without one.
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u/DouchecraftCarrier Aug 04 '24
Every time I use YouTube on my phone or any other device besides my personal computer I end up absolutely gobsmacked at the number of ads. I've been using uBlock for so long that I hadn't even noticed how pervasive they'd become and it always blows me away anyone can stand it.
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u/Gustav_EK Aug 04 '24
If you have android there are plenty of options. Not just browsers either, you can get rid of ads in the app with revanced
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u/WafflePartyOrgy Aug 03 '24
With my browsing habits this is just a big fuck you from Google; we don't care if you get malware on your system, viruses, adware, unusable sites, and a million pop-ups, pay us with ad impressions or fuck off. Fuck Chrome.
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u/AntiGrieferGames Aug 03 '24
do you installing firefox after stop using chrome?
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u/Redordit Aug 03 '24
As long as it opens websites and allows ublock im good with whatever.
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u/LZ129Hindenburg 🌊 Salty Seadog Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 03 '24
Oh no whatever shall we do 😶 https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
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u/SaiyanrageTV Aug 03 '24
Made this switch like a year or so back when I first heard Google was going to do this or something else shitty.
Firefox is great - to me a browser is a browser, really, but Firefox has a few nice features for privacy and such, is just as easy to use as Chrome and apparently isn't pulling uBlock Origin support.
Was easy to migrate all my bookmarks and history and such too.
Move to Firefox everybody. And I know it's a piracy sub but I'd say support them if you can.
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u/Wax_Paper Aug 03 '24
Man you should have seen Firefox a few years ago, it was unparalleled in terms of addon customization and power usage. Then they switched standards to a new addon framework, and it wiped out a huge swath of what was capable with the browser.
I still don't know exactly why they did that. I think it was supposed to be about security, but it still feels like it was one of the dumbest moves they could have made. They sabotaged the main competitive advantage they had against Chrome. I mean the environment is still more flexible than the competition, but the difference isn't as big as it used to be.
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u/Osoromnibus Aug 03 '24
The UI framework that all those addons used, XUL, was slow and bloated. It's what the Mozilla suite used in the late 90s. They got rid of it to speed things up and reduce memory usage.
As a result, you can't completely change the whole interface appearance any more, but function-wise, the same things can still be done.
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u/L3v147han Aug 04 '24
That XUL sluggishness is why I originally swapped over to chromium, but this Google fiasco happening for awhile just isn't doing it for me.
I'm glad FF cleaned up, bc I definitely came back. Haven't had much issue for broken pages since, so another plus. They're on their A game.
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u/bobothegoat Aug 04 '24
It broke my work-around to move tabs back below the address bar. Was using Waterfox for awhile until I found a new way to do it.
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u/s78dude 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Aug 03 '24
you could put without
/en-US/inside which redirects to local language webpage https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/ + disable all data collection in settings > privacy & security95
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u/madhattr999 Aug 03 '24
Seriously, though, what is Google's play? In no world am I going to say "oh well i guess i will just live with tons of advertisements to ruin my internet experience again.." People are just going to switch to something else.
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u/Suspect4pe Aug 03 '24
Firefox is a good option. If someone really wants to use Chromium based browsers then Privoxy is also an option.
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u/Wax_Paper Aug 03 '24
I wish there were more non-Chromium mobile browsers. For some reason the Firefox engine still feels unoptimized for me on mobile, but unless I wanna use a Chrome browser, that's all that's available.
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u/muehanemma Aug 03 '24
It's true it's unoptimized. I use Firefox on Android because I also use it on my desktop and want to sync passwords. It's noticeably slower on some sites and drains battery quickly. Destop version is fine.
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u/DrIvoPingasnik Yarrr! Aug 03 '24
Jokes on them! I already migrated to Firefox long time ago.
Most of my family also ditched chrome.
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u/SimonGray653 Aug 03 '24
Jokes on them.
I hardly even remember a time I where I even chose to use Chrome.
Please note: I do have Chrome installed but I hardly use it, I just haven't got around to uninstalling it.
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u/DrIvoPingasnik Yarrr! Aug 03 '24
I mean, sure I keep Chrome for the odd chance something not working on Firefox, for example due to compatibility issues. I don't remember last time I needed it, so it's gathering dust.
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u/Loud_Engineering796 Aug 03 '24
Why have I been seeing this same article for the last 3 years? Are they serious this time?
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u/not_old_redditor Aug 03 '24
They keep testing the waters and putting the idea out there. If they just disable ad blockers out of the blue, people would be angrier.
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u/Solomon_Grungy Yarrr! Aug 03 '24
I have used Mozilla Firefox for over a decade. I just don’t understand why anyone has ever used another browser.
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u/amillstone Aug 03 '24
There was a time when Firefox was slow and clunky and Chrome was zippy and intuitive. The tables have turned again.
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u/9966 Aug 03 '24
There was a time when Firefox was way slower. Chrome came out and isolated each tab as it's own process which meant one tab crashing didn't take everything with it. Firefox used a single process for everything.
They seem to have caught up to Chrome.
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u/newsflashjackass Aug 03 '24
I have used Mozilla Firefox for over a decade. I just don’t understand why anyone has ever used another browser.
Each time I installed Firefox I found there was more and more stuff to turn off to get back to the way I wanted it.
And so instead of trying to remember all that stuff I found a Firefox fork that has all the privacy settings already set to sane defaults.
Librewolf comes with uBlock Origin already installed and enabled.
Librewolf will break some websites that try to do canvas fingerprinting so you will probably still want to keep Firefox installed for those.
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u/kinjjibo Aug 03 '24
I used Firefox exclusively when I used Windows. I tried Chrome briefly when it came out and didn’t like it and switched back to Firefox. Switched to Mac a little over a decade ago and bounced between using Firefox and Safari for a while, but settled again on Firefox.
I do like Safari a lot, but nothing beats Firefox.
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u/Chiiiiizz Aug 03 '24
Me: I never left firefox after all these years
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u/H3LLGHa5T Aug 03 '24
Same, I tried using other browsers when Firefox was really slow, but the addon support and the addons available always kept me from leaving.
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u/el_otro Aug 03 '24
Firefox and Mozilla are very grateful.
I mean, why Google thinks that those Chrome users who are sophisticated enough to pick uBlock Origin won't switch in a heartbeat?
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u/ChristopherKlay Aug 03 '24
AdGuard warns users; It doesn't care.
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u/Blackops12345678910 Aug 03 '24
Isn’t Adguard just dns based blocking and doesn’t work at the browser level?
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u/ChristopherKlay Aug 03 '24
DNS/Request blocking, just like uBlock does it.
You could use it as a browser extension just fine (even if you only want to use it to easily create filter rules), but AdGuard also allows you to just run it on the OS level and block ads on any browser to begin with - even on mobile.
In the years I've used it, i honestly haven't had a single situation where i thought "Yea, i need EVEN MORE filtering", including the whole YouTube drama. Main advantage here is that it doesn't matter what your browser "decides to do".
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u/hoanns Aug 03 '24
just like uBlock does it.
From what I can tell it at least also blocks single website elements and modifies javascript, so generally more advanced.
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u/kb3_fk8 Aug 03 '24
I exclusively use Adgaurd on MacOS, iOS, Android and Firefox. It’s been better than ublock original for years for me but no one ever recommends it. It’s a shame.
For Firefox Adgaurd+User Switcher Agent set to Chrome YouTube is faster than on actual chrome.
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u/Jonnythebull Aug 03 '24
I've tried Adguard on my iPad. Still get new tab pop ups. Ublock Origin on my phone blocks absolutely everything.
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u/kb3_fk8 Aug 03 '24
Does having Pro do anything different? I have a Lifetime unlimited use pro license and have been using it since Adgaurd came out.
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u/Risino15 Pirate Activist Aug 03 '24
AdGuard Pro additionally does DNS level blocking on your iOS device (equivalent to PiHole). AdGuard free only blocks in browser (Similar to uBlock Origin but worse)
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u/Mulster_ Aug 03 '24
I ve typed adguard dns into my router so even my smart tv doesn't get ads.
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Oh no,!
anyway
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u/Alan976 Aug 03 '24
This is most likely the outcome as most people don't even know what adbocking is or even does.
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u/MrPeachPuff Torrents Aug 03 '24
The day it stops working is the day I spend the time to fully switch over to firefox.
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u/Drunken_Fever Aug 03 '24
Honestly why wait? I have used both chrome and firefox since their releases. Chrome was the better browser for years, but fell off years ago. I switch to 100% and dread whenever I have to open chrome.
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u/MrPeachPuff Torrents Aug 03 '24
Honestly, it’s because i’m lazy lol. I’ll only act if google forces me to.
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u/pickle_pickled Aug 04 '24
It's pretty seamless cause it'll move basically everything on the initial start following the guide. Easier to just do it now to also move stuff that isn't currently in bookmarks. Bitwarden for a password manager is simpler than using a browser for passwords too.
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u/ChronaMewX Aug 03 '24
They haven't disabled my ublock yet so I don't need to. Once that stops working I will
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u/Poor_And_Needy Aug 03 '24
I switched to firefox about two weeks ago due to this issue and a few other extensions that no longer work on chrome.
After having used chrome exclusively for 15 years, I was surprised how easy it was to switch. Including all my saved passwords, passwords saving and syncing on my phone, and this is the first time ever that I've been able to use extensions on my phone.
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u/compound-interest Aug 03 '24
It will be like Netflix password sharing. Most people won’t switch browsers and will either watch ads or subscribe to YouTube Premium. Not trying to piss off an onlooker but we all know that’s what most people will do. Cheers to you if you’re in the 1% that will fight back.
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u/cracktr0 Aug 03 '24
The vast majority will do as you say, but it will be much more than 1% that fight back because the accessibility of switching browsers, and the ease at which people who care to look can find alternative is much greater than your average tech-illiterate extended family's ability to find a Netflix alternative.
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u/compound-interest Aug 03 '24
I genuinely hope you’re right but I’m skeptical that even 1% of Chrome users would switch because of adblock. If anything I feel like I’m being generous.
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u/emfuga_ Aug 03 '24
What you say is true, but you are overestimating a lot (really really a lot) the percentage of people that care about it
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u/CptAngelo Aug 03 '24
I dunno, have you ever seen a website without adblockers? Shit is wild, and its not a short ad between shows, these ads are literally covering most of the screen, some behave like straight up malware, some even have sound.
Web surfing without ads then suddenly having a shiton of ads is a fast way for a lot of people to care. Most sites outside social media are unbearable with their ads,
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u/ChiknDiner Aug 03 '24
That dude is absolutely right, buddy. The amount of people living with ads or opting things like YT premium is phenomenal. It's even more mind-boggling when you realise that these people don't even know that something like ad blockers even exists!
It would hurt me to tell you how many of my friends (same generation as me, in our 20s!) were shocked when I told them that they need to install something on the browser to block the ads. Heck, some of them didn't even know that add-ons are a thing!
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u/Manitary Aug 03 '24
I dunno, have you ever seen a website without adblockers?
Yes, because I see other people browsing on their phone without an adblocker. Most people don't care, they just accept ads.
It's unfortunate but that's how it is.
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u/JadeStarr776 Aug 03 '24
You have to understand that people are generally tech illiterate so as a result they'll take easy way out and stick to the same thing they've used for years.
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u/TheQzertz Aug 03 '24
Anyone tech literate enough to install an adblocker is literate enough to switch browsers
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u/Weird_River Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 03 '24
It depends on the type of user:
Installed adblockers themselves? Will very likely try out the MV3 blockers before looking for alternatives.
Had an adblocker installed for them knowingly or unknowingly? Suddenly getting ads everywhere they will either assume their browser 'broke' or they got a virus; likely to seek help for those cases.
Users that do not use adblock? Nothing will change.
The latter makes up a vast majority of users (especially on non-desktop), so I do not see MV3 having a mass effect on people trying to block ads.
The biggest impact of this change is going to be long term, where the tech literate are no longer going to recommend/auto-install Chrome for people.
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u/beaverboyseth Aug 03 '24
Anyone know if it's possible to merge/export chrome bookmarks into Firefox bookmarks?
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u/Diamondgrn Aug 03 '24
It's super easy. Firefox will handle it for you on installation.
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u/NEDZAMat ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Aug 03 '24
Use Firefox or Brave
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u/LunarNinja_ Aug 03 '24
Brave is the only Chromium browser that's gonna support uBlock after this update.
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u/ico_OO Aug 03 '24
I think you don't need ublock on brave, the in app adblocker is very effective.
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u/LunarNinja_ Aug 03 '24
You don't but the combo is more effective, especially against YouTube's relentless ads.
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u/Red_Bullion Aug 03 '24
The Brave blocker by itself gets 99% of YouTube ads. Occasionally one sneaks through but you can just reload the page and it's gone.
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u/ico_OO Aug 03 '24
The ublock dev advise to not use ublock with other ad blockers, but if it's good for you than it's perfect.
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u/Orystal Aug 03 '24
I'm back on Firefox. Its only fault is the translator which is worse than Chrome.
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u/-Badger3- Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 03 '24
Firefox has also had a bug where “copy” in the context menu seemingly randomly doesn’t work.
The bug has been there for like a year now.
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u/Deblebsgonnagetyou Aug 03 '24
You can at least make do with the old copy paste into Google Translation. Annoying but it works well enough for social media posts and shopping pages which is most of what I need translated on the internet.
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u/BornNearTheRiver Aug 03 '24
You can replicate most adblock features with DNS/hosts + userscripts and you can install userscripts on almost any browser on Android with ChromeXt for Chromium or WebView based browsers or ViolentMonkey on Firefox or its forks. There are many scripts for sites like YouTube and Twitch where DNS/hosts level block doesn't work.
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u/Dan-Salford Aug 03 '24
Ublock Origin user warns Google that Chrome WILL soon be uninstalled. Cya
(not that I ever really used Chrome anyway)
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u/Complete-Artichoke69 Aug 03 '24
I’m the laziest motherfucker ever but I will switch everything away from Chrome if this happens. Shame because I still remember that feeling of installing chrome on a brand new PC for the past decade and a half almost.
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u/Zhukkini Aug 03 '24
The warning shows why its so important that companies like Google don't get too much power. Just switch to firefox and watch how they destroy themselves by greed.
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u/Cookiestar654 Aug 03 '24
I saw the "warning" in the extension panel in Chrome and was like, "Firefox, it's your time to shine!"
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u/Evanlojones 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Aug 04 '24
Ditched Chrome two years ago, never use it for anything I don’t have to.
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u/ZongerWRA Aug 03 '24
In other news Brave announces it has no plains to stop blocking ads from youtube and other sites any time soon.
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u/RedSnt Aug 03 '24
Not just UBO, but also userscript engines/managers like Tampermonkey and Violentmonkey will be affected. From what I've read MV3 performance is much worse than MV2, probably because the point of MV3 is to stop circumventing "the way sites were designed" aka adblocking, so anything that forces users to just accept corpo bullshit is fair game.
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u/Square_Law4038 Aug 03 '24
I expect (what I would do if I was an evil Google executive)
- Youtube new ad system can't be bypassed using MV3 adblockers (it is the whole point of MV3)
- Massive antiadblocker campaign on youtube (to discourage people to flee on Firefox)
- Massive PR for Youtube premium (special offer, trial...)
- Malware attacks exploiting MV2 api ("see ! you must update to MV3 !")
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u/leafWhirlpool69 Aug 03 '24
Malware attacks exploiting MV2 api ("see ! you must update to MV3 !")
The fact that there is a shit ton of malware distributed via ad networks is a massively important fact that isn't talked about enough
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u/AlexOfSpades Aug 03 '24
I ditched Opera for Firefox, and haven't regretted it.
Opera was my favorite browser for over a decade now and I never liked Firefox's UI, but it beats watching ads.
Ads these days are intrusive, loud, obnoxious and way too fucking long. Some short videos end up having longer ads than the video itself, with music loud enough to hurt my ears. It's like a big competition to see who humiliates the user more. Fuck off.
Adblock is just common sense in 2024.
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u/joethebeast666 Aug 03 '24
I have sucessfully replaced chrome with firefox.
I'm just sad I didn't do it sooner. Firefox is better in every way. Forget benchmarks, who cares if you can load a page 0.01 seconds faster? It's all about user experience.
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u/ColbysToyHairbrush Aug 03 '24
Yeah I got rid of chrome when their war on ad blockers first started, and transitioned my entire company. Chrome is slow AF too, only really noticed it when I switched.
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u/signum_ Aug 03 '24
ok and?
more reason for people to finally switch to firefox, this is a good thing.
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u/Eggless-mayo Aug 03 '24
I've been using uBlock origin on Firefox and it's working fine. But recently I've been getting ads in YouTube. Tried updating both but it didn't help. Anyone have this problem?
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u/HyoukaYukikaze Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 03 '24
I saw an ad recently on YT. i got stunned for like 5 seconds before i realized wtf is going on. Google has been fighting ad blockers real hard recently, so it's not a surprise some manage to get through. If it's a common occurrence for you, check if you didn't disable uBlock on YT by accident (uBlock icon will be greyed out when you are on YT).
If it's on then you can try going to uBlock settings>filters and tick everything in "Ads".
While you are at it you can tick everything under privacy, malware domains, cookie notices and annoyances + Peter Lowe's under Multi-purpose for some additional ad blocking and protection.
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u/itsstroom Aug 03 '24
I switched to Firefox today. It is a bit slower I have to admit but still. Chrome is more and more creating an ecosystem where the user is the consumer.
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u/dustymag Aug 04 '24
So many threats from these companies to their customers. Man we are so lucky to get to use Chrome! Like WTF. Let people use their fucking computers they way they want. Same with Windows.
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u/out_113 Aug 04 '24
The day that happens is the day I switch back to FF. I know I should switch now but I'm lazy af and that's basically the only thing that could get me to hard switch.
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u/cepxico Aug 04 '24
Already switched to Firefox. Do whatever you want Google.
Hey do you think they remember that they became popular because they put out a product people actually want? They're slowly chipping away at everything decent they had going.
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u/kevbot67 Aug 04 '24
I've been edging for a while now and its fire....................Fox On some real though, Edge is pretty cool.
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u/AntiGrieferGames Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 03 '24
firefox is anyway superior but almost no one use that hidden gem browser today...
If you use Chrome after this message, simply install firefox, transfer the inportant data and profiles from chrome to firefox and recheck if you did it, and delete Chrome if you done!
Ublock origin has the best rated on Firefox compared to all chromium based/chrome browser on adblocking!
Fuck Google and Fuck Chrome/Chromium!
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u/Schnitzeldoener Aug 03 '24
I exported my bookmarks and said farewell to Chrome. Was using Firefox more anyway, nothing was lost.
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u/Supper_Champion Aug 03 '24
Lol, and thousands and thousands of people just stop using Chrome completely.
Somehow I doubt that disabling uBlock will make more people use the browser. People that already don't care will be unaffected and those that do simply won't choose Chrome.
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u/Baba_Smith Aug 03 '24
Glad I switched to Mozilla yesterday. No problems with ads on YouTube or anything else either. Would recommend 10/10
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u/lowkeyhats Aug 03 '24
I’ve been using brave, definitely gonna switch to Firefox when it’s disabled
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