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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
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Firefox Mobile needs Tab Grouping tho.
There are some addons that do that. That's the good thing about Firefox. Very customisable.
Really, for mobile? Because containers aren't available for Android.
Ah yeah not sure if they're available for mobile, I meant desktop
You got my hopes up!
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Until Google pulls the payment they do to have it as default search engine and it goes to hell
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Why the fuck does anyone use Chrome? It's shittier than Firefox in every way and is still a leaky memory hog
It's the only browser installed at my work and they won't give me admin access 
Me 15 years ago, using Firefox Portable with an Internet Explorer container plugin so I can use trash web apps the organization refuses to update.
my partner has trouble doing some remote desktop stuff with firefox so they have to use chrome
Google meet screen share doesn't work for me on Firefox, tragically.
Probably intentionally too
Most definitely intentionally. Everytime I use Google meet it reminds me that because I'm using Firefox I can't use all the features.
Have you tried Chrome Mask? It spoofs Firefox as Chrome
A concerning number of the websites that don't work in Firefox, do work when you pretend to be Chrome.
Less tragic and more criminal, since Google uses its marketshare to essentially control the development of the web.
Firefox can literally do 99% of websites
The websites that don't work are actually just poorly designed or made by Google (not mutually exclusive).
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uBlock Origin fans can rest at ease since a new and improved version is already available - uBlock Origin Lite
The Lite version's capabilities are relatively limited
it's new and improved if you count regressions in functionality as an improvement
Words don't mean anything and I hate it.
When shrinkflation advertising comes for your advertising blocking software.
Chrome users
well, there's your problem
We will welcome them to Firefox.
adblocking dns providers are a great no-system-resource, no-battery-usage solution that works in any app/program (not only browsers) and can be added for any system, as well as better online privacy especially using encrypted dns
independent-run with added top-level domain support:
- https://pubhole.archuser.org/ips/ (both)
- https://blahdns.com/ (encrypted)
- https://libredns.gr/ (encrypted)
- https://libreops.cc/radicaldns.html (unencrypted)
corporate:
- https://adguard-dns.io/kb/general/dns-providers/#default (both)
- https://doh.tiar.app/ (both)
- https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls (encrypted)
- https://alternate-dns.com/ (unencrypted)
- keweonDNS (both, address info is a bit buried in a forum post)
FireFox and Chrome both have settings to add encrypted dns for the browser.
Recommend setting adblocking dns as default on router if possible, sort of makes any router a pi-hole and then automatically sets these as default for any connected device so you can set it once and don’t have to do every device. Try to use at least two different providers for setups with primary/secondary/tertiary in case one has a temporary outage.
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Including to vastly more malware ads..
Gonna be really funny if it causes something that makes the whole crowdstrike thing look tame by comparison
I once stood behind someone and watched them click on a banner ad that says “DOWNLOAD NOW!” while trying to download Notepad++
They didn’t see it on the list of apps, so they refreshed the page and clicked on a different download banner ad and installed a second malware lol
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First off don't use chrome.
If you do use it. I don't know use a dns.
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Their endgame is hooking directly into the TPM chip on your phone/computer to ensure you can't bypass ads, just like netflix, hulu, etc have done. Then the only recourse will be ripping all their videos to another hosting platform which they will then try to argue is a form of piracy.
This TPM bypassing will eventually be done by essentially pointing a camera at a screen (modern TVs have encryption baked in so even the video in transit is DRM protected), at which point the video hosting companies will bake in small differences/invisible watermarks that uniquely identify which user's account (which is linked to a real person who can suffer legal consequences) the video came from. Then we will have multiple cameras pointing at like 100 screens with an AI mixing them together to try to remove the differences/watermarks, at which point the hosting companies will create their own AI to counter and mislead the "piracy" AI 
This is also why ISPs took away your ability to run a personal server on your home computer using NATs, firewalls, and dynamic IPs instead of just transitioning to IPv6.
Also websites are going to start blocking firefox citing low user counts but you know what the real reason is 
I 100% believe this will happen because making commodities do as many
as possible between any given creator and end-user just so they can provide more "Services" no one asked for and thus extract more value for not actually doing anything is like the only trick capitalism has left.
Also websites are going to start blocking firefox citing low user counts but you know what the real reason is
small differences/invisible watermarks that uniquely identify
This has never worked so far lol. Their "invisible watermark" always ruins the media even beyond treathog consumption levels.
Otherwise is there anything the individual user should be doing, short of not buying smart TVs (me) and not buying TPM chipped computers?
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In related news I recently set up a DNS server in my home network with adware/malware blocking and set my router to use it as static DNS so my whole house has to use it, including my parents. It was shockingly easy to do with NixOS.
I'm going to make a separate post on how I did it using an old Thinkpad x220 in case anyone is interested or I get around to doing it.
Anyway, use Firefox and ffprofile creator, it's not that hard.
Please make this post!
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Damn they're actually going through with it...
uBlock Origin will continue to work as usual across other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Opera, and more.
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Wait, there's only 30 mil Chrome users? I thought there were way more than that
The count is supposedly closer to 3 billion, but the article clarifies only 30 million use ublock origin. Which seems devastatingly low to me. Why risk such a move if it only affects 1% of your userbase?
Because it only affects one percent of the userbase. There's no short term loss. Your clients (ad companies, Big Corp) see that you're Doing Something. And, more importantly, Big Tech is removing the copper wiring out of the walls. They want to monetize ad space as much as humanly possible. YouTube is already showing 4-5 ads to normies as we speak.
My 13 yo cousin won't install or let me install an adblocker on his phone and it's killing me because he keeps complaining to his mom that he needs YouTube plus or whatever it's called, but then I say "sponsorblock is free" and he says "oh I'm used to the ads" aaaaaaaaaaaaa why is he like this?
"oh I'm used to the ads"
In bad country, the children have resigned themselves in being the target of relentless predatory advertising through an implanted sense of worship to highly marketable treats.
Honestly, it won't be long before you can't use a blocker for those ads anyway. Most services now inject the ads right into the data stream for the video you're watching dynamically. To try and block those ads is to try and block the same video of the content you want to watch.
The day that happens is the day I go back to the same full-scale, all-media piracy I was pulling in my teens. Pretty sure the old schooner's still seaworthy.
If that happens and it's truly impossible to work around it will finally be the day I get off my ass and read Das Kapital in its entirity.
I don't think this will be as big an issue as people fear. Sponsorblock already is a crowd-sourced method of blocking the same video of the content you want to watch, and it works borderline perfectly. Just do the same but by still or video-clip instead of timestamp, job done.
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well he was raised by youtube. he's been seeing the ads his whole life, sponsor and otherwise. it's like with older people who don't mind seeing ads on their netflix plan - its just tv for them.
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And this right here is why I dropped Chrome like a heroin habit the minute that they started talking about Manifest v3.
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