Google Chrome is killing more extensions than you think - is your old favorite on the list?
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The boat might be sinking but at least this plank still floats
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For reals please don’t use chrome it’s a terrible browser
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There’s always PiHole to block ads at the network level. It takes some setup and a raspberry pi but it can be one of the cheaper ones. And I’m pretty sure the sites aren’t going to do much more than check the User Agent to get the browser so User Agent Switcher will get around 99% of that.
You could, I suppose, block Firefox in other ways (like maybe checking for some random Chromium feature not yet supported in Firefox) but Firefox isn’t usually far behind Chrome so it would almost take an entire new developer to be effective. And there’s probably ways around that too. (I’m a web developer but have never worked on an ad-supported project and never will so I’m not sure but life finds a way.)
Is it possible to set up the pihole so certain devices are unfiltered? My partner works in digital marketing and needs to test that her clients' ads are functional.
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Stop. Using. Chrome.
Firefox is the way.
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Nope. Cloud to Butt still works for me.
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Is it possible to set up the pihole so certain devices are unfiltered? My partner works in digital marketing and needs to test that her clients' ads are functional.
Yep. You can just disable filtering for specific devices. Or, if you want to get more granular, you can create device groups with different levels of filtering (including none).
My partner uses Facebook, I don't. Her phone has Facebook unblocked, but it's blocked on all our other devices.
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Is it possible to set up the pihole so certain devices are unfiltered? My partner works in digital marketing and needs to test that her clients' ads are functional.
As I recall, the answer is yes, as long as you make the Pi your DHCP provider or assign static IP. I was using it in the opposite way to block certain sites from certain devices. But my kids are old enough now that I haven't done it in a couple of years.
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The sad thing is that people will see this and still try to find a way to keep using chrome instead of just moving to a browser that actually respects them.
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Brave is a Chromium browser.
That's precisely one of the reasons I use it.
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As I said, I mainly care about adblocking. Shields (Brave's adblocker) does an amazing job and doesn't depend on MV2 or MV3 (it's not an extension).
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Nope. Cloud to Butt still works for me.
Forgot about cloud to butt. We might need AI to butt with a backwards compatible blockchain to butt nowadays.
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Pushbullet is also dead.
️That's a name I haven't heard in a long long time. I thought it died due to it being a privacy nightmare or something. There was some controversy at least.
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I used to use Selenium extension on Chrome to test my applications for Chrome compatibility. Chrome said they are disabling it now. Do you not want web applications to be easily tested for Chrome compatibility, Google?
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I don't have any chrome extensions because I don't use chrome. Everyone else should do the same.
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So, the elephant in the room is Chrome killing ad-blocking.
I think that Firefox (and Firefox forks, like Zen Browser) have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue may just kill support for Firefox if Firefox does permit ad blocking.
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
As of February:
Chrome: 66.3%
Safari: 17.99%
Edge: 5.33%
Firefox: 2.62%
The software used to view the Web in 2025 is really mostly under the control of either Google or Apple.
Safari on IPhone does have adblocker extensions. So the websites should stop supporting Apple devices as well in order to display ads. This is nearly 20% of users based on your stats.
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I used to use Selenium extension on Chrome to test my applications for Chrome compatibility. Chrome said they are disabling it now. Do you not want web applications to be easily tested for Chrome compatibility, Google?
They are probably moving to Chrome DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi
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Pushbullet is also dead.
️Hasn't it been dead for years? You can probably get the same functionality with other apps, depending on what you use it for.
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I like Floorp.
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I don't have any chrome extensions because I don't use chrome. Everyone else should do the same.
chrome just killed Ublock on me and EVERY site is now full of ads... I had no idea how bad it had become!
What browser do you suggest?
