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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneC [email protected]

    switch to firefox (or a fork of firefox like librewolf).

    vivaldi just uses chrome's web store (there's a discussion on the forums to build their own extension store but no movement yet: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/91160/vivaldi-s-own-extension-store/20)

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    Waterfox runs nicely on pc. Still a little rough on android though

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      Not sure how Vivaldi uses extensions since you cannot add new ones from the chrome store...

      Extensions in Vivaldi come from the Chrome Web Store, not sure what you mean by this

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      I'm using the mobile app which doesn't let you use extensions from the chrome store, if you guys are talking desktop, I might be wrong.

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        Mullvad VPN

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        Much appreciated, thank you!

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          I noticed they recently marked it deprecated or unsupported (i forget the wording) and tried to get me to remove it. I think it was even disabled automatically. I kinda saw this coming.

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          • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksZ [email protected]

            It's been an ad company for a long time, though, and blocking ad blockers is new.

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            Because they are at the end of their growth phase and have entered their squeeze until dead phase.

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              If you had uBlock origin already, you may have gotten a message through Chrome that it was no longer supported, so it's been disabled, and gives you the option to remove it. I noticed you don't have to remove it, and it can be re-enabled. However, I need someone smarter with adblockers than I to say if this is actually helpful and not hazardous.

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              People are saying manifest v2 (the old API that ublock uses) will be gone soon, which I think should effectively make ublock unusable whatever you do unless you stop updating chrome maybe (which could open you up to a ton of security issues) ? Not sure, don't care since I've ditched chrome long ago

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                Yeah, I heard someone say a week or so ago that they straight disabled it in the browser, and now only the gimped version that works with Manifest V3 works now. Thankfully I switched to Firefox when all this Manifest V3 stuff was announced. As far as I know it's the only browser out there that isn't based on Chromium (which Google also controls, so browsers like Brave will likely be affected by this soon as well, unless a bunch of those smaller browsers get together and fork Chromium and maintain it themselves, which I'm not very hopeful about) and so doesn't have to worry about these shenanigans.

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                  Chrome is no longer available in my Start menu.

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                  Yeah, I switched to Firefox when this whole Manifest V3 thing was announced, I only still have Chrome installed because it's better for PDFs than Firefox and once in a great while i run into a site that doesn't work right on Firefox.

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                  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneC [email protected]

                    switch to firefox (or a fork of firefox like librewolf).

                    vivaldi just uses chrome's web store (there's a discussion on the forums to build their own extension store but no movement yet: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/91160/vivaldi-s-own-extension-store/20)

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                    I didn't realize there were firefox forks, are any of them significantly better than firefox?

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                    • mrmule@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                      I travel full time, so I don't have my own internet connection.

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                      That's a travel router, meant specifically for people in your situation.

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                        Brave bad, CEO evil, Chromium, cryptoooo, etc… Bullshit browser.

                        You people are so dumb, predictable and obtuse... Welcome to my blocklist 🙂

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                        Cringe.

                        Blocked.

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                          I'm using the mobile app which doesn't let you use extensions from the chrome store, if you guys are talking desktop, I might be wrong.

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                          Okay that makes way more sense then yeah. I don't know of a single chromium browser that supports extensions on mobile so unsurprising

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                            Ima be honest. I don’t run ad blockers. The way I see it, if I’m consuming content from a given source and that source invested time and/or money into said content then they deserve to be compensated for it. I am not willing to pay a subscription for every website out there, so ads are an acceptable compromise.

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                            At this point ad blocking is more about security and optimization than stopping ads themselves. If a site wants to run some banner ads to pay for costs, I have nothing against it, but once Javascript is involved, that just becomes a vulnerability for attack.

                            Also, websites that bury their content in layers of overlay and popup ads with loud audio and several unrelated videos can go fuck themselves.

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                              Chrome is no longer available on my computer.

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                                That's a travel router, meant specifically for people in your situation.

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                                Appreciated, however I'm down to a 45 liter carry on bag now and I literally have no space to carry my own router around.

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                                  You remind me of the old guy at work who called me a "FUCKING FREELOADER" because I told him about uBlock origin.

                                  I'm never recommending it again to anyone and I have since kept it a secret that I use an ad-blocker. I guess it's a problem for people.

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                                  That guy sounds like he thinks his kids owe him money for raising them. Disregard the stupid bastard.

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                                  • libra00@lemmy.worldL [email protected]

                                    Yeah, I heard someone say a week or so ago that they straight disabled it in the browser, and now only the gimped version that works with Manifest V3 works now. Thankfully I switched to Firefox when all this Manifest V3 stuff was announced. As far as I know it's the only browser out there that isn't based on Chromium (which Google also controls, so browsers like Brave will likely be affected by this soon as well, unless a bunch of those smaller browsers get together and fork Chromium and maintain it themselves, which I'm not very hopeful about) and so doesn't have to worry about these shenanigans.

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                                    Brave and Vivaldi are chromium based but have adblocking built in rather than relying on an extension. So while they will eventually be impacted on extension support, the built in adblocking (which is quite robust) won't be affected.

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                                      Switch to vivaldi

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                                      Any Chromium-based browser will be in the same boat sooner or later. None of them have the resources to continue to support v2 long-term, or to support their own extension stores.

                                      At this point the only viable alternative is Firefox and its dirivatives.

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                                        They hate us

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                                        It is 100000% a reason to split Chrome and the ad sales part of Google into different companies.

                                        It won't solve the problem but the pressures end up being orders of magnitude different.

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                                          My guess is that they're doing it in waves. I've been hearing about it removed for weeks, only happened to me a few days ago.

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                                          They are.

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