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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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[–] BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Or you can DNS level blocking + NewPipe(SponsorBlock)

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[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 7 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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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

The best time was always.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This "article" is an ad lol

The irony is real

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[–] limerod@reddthat.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Considering, the mobile browser also has addons and will gain hundreds more in a few months. It's a no-brainer.

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[–] interceder270@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I haven't been using chrome ever since they remove AdNauseam from the web store with no justifiable reason.

They just took it off and kept it that way because there wasn't sufficient backlash.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Remember when Firefox started dealing damage to IE's insane monopoly, and then Chrome came along and shanked them both?

I hope Chrome finally eats dirt after basically becoming knockoff IE 2.

Literally every new HTTP standard is coming out of Google's dev team. That is not a good thing.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 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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[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 5 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.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 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.

[–] Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm trying to make the switch to Firefox, but I'm running into some issues. The main one being, I travel internationally a lot for work and rely heavily on chrome automatically translating every web page I visit. Is there a way to have this on both my desktop and mobile (android)? When I look at the available extensions there are like 15 available... Thankfully one of them is uBlock Origin

[–] Killercat103@infosec.pub 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Firefox does now have built-in page translation that runs offline. While it's not the best one out there it only needs to connect to the internet once to download the translation data.

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