Ublock Origin being blocked/disabled in Chrome June 2024.

[WilliamM2]

Don't forget the extra spicy import filter "bug" though!

Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data

Microsoft quietly addresses an Edge browser bug.

www.theverge.com

I thought Edge was based on Chromium, like Chrome, but had nothing to do with Google?
Although it does look like Chromium is going to block uBlock as well, so maybe this wasn't even Googles decision?

I did find this for ads on videos:

AdSkipper - Browser extension that automatically skips ads

AdSkipper is browser extension that automatically skips in video ads on websites. It works silently in background without disturbing your flow. AdSkipper doesn't block ads, but rather skips them, so websites cannot detect it that easy, as if it were just a regular ad blocker.

www.adskipper.me

Haven't tried it.

 

[lxskllr]

Google guides chromium. It's google's project. Chromium is like chrome lite. All the core functionality is there minus some proprietary bits.

 

[WilliamM2]

Google guides chromium. It's google's project. Chromium is like chrome lite. All the core functionality is there minus some proprietary bits.

I see, I always thought it was like other open source projects, didn't realize Google controlled it.

If I can find a few more useable extensions for Firefox I'll just go that way.

 

[WelshBloke]

If I can find a few more useable extensions for Firefox I'll just go that way.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I oppose the Fox for the way Mozilla cast off the Browser Suite (now SeaMonkey) in favor of the upstart pipsqueak. Fox was basically the Suite Lite, browser without the Composer, Chat and email. It should have stayed that way and both could have co-existed.

 

[MangoX]

I see, I always thought it was like other open source projects, didn't realize Google controlled it.

If I can find a few more useable extensions for Firefox I'll just go that way.

I have been browsing ad-free for years on my phone with Firefox. It's an amazing experience. If I could uninstall Chrome on my phone I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Here are some of the extensions I'm currently running. The Google Search Fixer is necessary if you want the natural Google experience as if you're running chrome. Video background play fix blocks sites from automatically playing videos. Ghosted for privacy #1. Dark reader can force dark mode for sites that don't offer a dark theme. There also noScript on the extensions store too if you'd like that. Web archives you can check an archived version of that page/site without opening another tab.

 

[nakedfrog]

I see, I always thought it was like other open source projects, didn't realize Google controlled it.

If I can find a few more useable extensions for Firefox I'll just go that way.

I've really been liking PopUpOff (also available on Chrome--as of now?), easy control of settings with a right-click menu, gets around ad-nag blockers and such.

 

[lxskllr]

If I could uninstall Chrome on my phone I'd do it in a heartbeat.

It can be disabled. If not through the ui, through adb. Of course with root, you can do anything you want(as it should be). I find it offensive that I don't control my own phone. I'd like to recover the space taken up by bullshit I don't want, but didn't feel like jumping through hoops to take control when I got it, and now it's lived in, and I don't want to mess with it.

 

[WelshBloke]

It can be disabled. If not through the ui, through adb. Of course with root, you can do anything you want(as it should be). I find it offensive that I don't control my own phone. I'd like to recover the space taken up by bullshit I don't want, but didn't feel like jumping through hoops to take control when I got it, and now it's lived in, and I don't want to mess with it.

If you can't uninstall it only disable it then you wouldn't get the space back anyway, it's in a different partition to the space you can use.

I guess that you could remove stuff then resize partitions but I'm pretty sure that would break stuff as soon as you tried to update it.

 

[lxskllr]

If you can't uninstall it only disable it then you wouldn't get the space back anyway, it's in a different partition to the space you can use.

That's what I mean. When I rooted my S5, I could rip out the trash by the roots, and make my very own system apps that didn't take away from from my usable space. With disabling, at least it won't be doing anything, but you don't get space back.

 

[nakedfrog]

If you can't uninstall it only disable it then you wouldn't get the space back anyway, it's in a different partition to the space you can use.

I guess that you could remove stuff then resize partitions but I'm pretty sure that would break stuff as soon as you tried to update it.

When you disable an app, I think you can at least roll it back to the original installed version so there's space freed from removal of the updates. Been a while since I went on a disabling spree.

 

[WelshBloke]

When you disable an app, I think you can at least roll it back to the original installed version so there's space freed from removal of the updates. Been a while since I went on a disabling spree.

Yeah stuff you cant unistall thats baked in is in the system partition, then anything that gets updated or you install goes in the user partition.
Or it used to.

 

[mikeymikec]

I oppose the Fox for the way Mozilla cast off the Browser Suite (now SeaMonkey) in favor of the upstart pipsqueak. Fox was basically the Suite Lite, browser without the Composer, Chat and email. It should have stayed that way and both could have co-existed.

My memory isn't perfect but IIRC at the time several things were going on:

1 - Mozilla/Seamonkey was slower to start than Firefox at a time when app startup time was more important (I think IE started quicker than Moz/SM)
2 - Web page capabilities were taking off so extra components like Mail were no longer absolutely essential
3 - IRC had given ground to instant messaging at this point

re point 1 - I remember running a recoverable ramdisk for some time with my browser, email and OpenOffice installed which made the apps cold-start in less than half the time they did off hard disk; I remember implementing the 'recoverable' element manually and timing how long it took for various zip/rar compression levels to uncompress into RAM

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

It was not a start-up.

Netscape Navigator (started in 1998) was the first real browser. That morphed into Mozilla Application Suite. FF came later.

Mozilla Application Suite - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Zorba]

Firefox has better privacy.

Chrome and Edge are terrible. Edge particularly.

I am shocked at how many computer literate people use Chrome/Edge. I personally find both really annoying to use. But of course they are spying on you and will eventually make ad blockers impossible to use.

 

[misuspita]

So Firefox is the only one in Windows world where ublock origin will still work?

 

[nakedfrog]

It was not a start-up.

Netscape Navigator (started in 1998) was the first real browser. That morphed into Mozilla Application Suite. FF came later.

Mozilla Application Suite - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

You sure do maintain some stupid grudges.

 

[IronWing]

It was not a start-up.

Netscape Navigator (started in 1998) was the first real browser. That morphed into Mozilla Application Suite. FF came later.

Mozilla Application Suite - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Mosaic was the first "real" browser, released in 1993. Netscape Navigator came a year later. Text based browsers proceeded both.

 

[lxskllr]

So Firefox is the only one in Windows world where ublock origin will still work?

Firefox or one of it's forks.

 

[mikeymikec]

It was not a start-up.

Netscape Navigator (started in 1998) was the first real browser. That morphed into Mozilla Application Suite. FF came later.

Mozilla Application Suite - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

If you're responding to me, I said "app startup time" ie. how quickly a program takes to cold-start on Windows.

 

[nakedfrog]

Mosaic was the first "real" browser, released in 1993. Netscape Navigator came a year later. Text based browsers proceeded both.

View attachment 101601

Netscape was better though. I remember trying out another couple ones at the time that were awful from a usability perspective, one of them you opened each URL through something resembling a File->Open menu.

 

[IronWing]

Netscape was better though. I remember trying out another couple ones at the time that were awful from a usability perspective, one of them you opened each URL through something resembling a File->Open menu.

Netscape pulled a Microsoft by introducing features not in the HTML spec. If one built pages using Netscape's additions, they wouldn't work on Mosaic. Of course, MS ran with Netscape's improvisations until they didn't, destroying Netscape. While lots of folks were pissed at MS, I saw it as karma.

 

[nakedfrog]

Netscape pulled a Microsoft by introducing features not in the HTML spec. If one built pages using Netscape's additions, they wouldn't work on Mosaic. Of course, MS ran with Netscape's improvisations until they didn't, destroying Netscape. While lots of folks were pissed at MS, I saw it as karma.

This doesn't refute the fact that Netscape was better than Mosaic

 

[IronWing]

This doesn't refute the fact that Netscape was better than Mosaic

I liked Mosaic better.

Mosaic had a better logo.

 

[DigDog]

i always have to shake my head whenever i read "computer people to find a way to make computers NOT act like computers".

Back 2-3 months ago when Google went crazy and essentially broke YouTube, there was about a week where the adblockers didn't work or, more realistically, worked at 50% efficiency. Got a couple of black-screen videos, videos not playing, broken buttons, but within 10-ish days everything was back to normal.

incidentally, i have found a new, *awesome* extension, called SponsorBlock (google it) which identifies (and optionally, auto-skips) the parts of a YouTube video where the 'tuber has their sponsor bit .. you know, the "The romans were very cool. But now let's talk about SQUARESPACE !!" bit.

Google trying to break adblockers has actually improved my browsing experience. lol.

Get yourself SponsorBlock, it's awesome.