uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store
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I'm a bit confused as an Adblock Plus user, why did the ublock dev drop those features? ABP uses manifest v3 too and it still has all of those. So it's clearly not about them being impossible.
Lol who downvoted this
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I use proton vpn but you'll get downvoted no matter what if you don't use the vpn the bandwagon likes.
This kind is behaviour is a major downfall on platforms like this.
This is absolutely true.
I'll look at Proton. Thank you so much -
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So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye. -
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.
Understood. For what it's worth, this is another one of their products that's quite small:
https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/
It supports several VPN services out of the box.
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Just to be clear, I mean it's literally managed at the Group Policy level (in Windows server environments at least) and no amount of asking will suddenly give your user account permissions to be able to save files of any kind.
You generally literally cannot download it without going through IT to get them to approve of and give your account access first.
Ya I forgot I have escalated device privileges and an admin account, which I definitely would have used for installing anything. Although I believe I can also skirt the rules using winget on a user account. That will probably get you in trouble however!
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librefoxlibrewolf is very good; it comes with ublock and various other privacy features pre-installed, i've been leaning toward them more just because they embraced mastodon more. mullvad also has one.i typically go between firefox nightly and
librefoxlibrewolf.edit: oops mistyped the name, thanks @[email protected]
Is there actually a librefox too? I only know of Librewolf which I started using
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I only use chrome for my work stuff, and that's because I work with g-suite a lot.
Chrome fucking sucks
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And that is why I went to Firefox once Google announced this bullshit.
Swapping is pretty painless. It even brings over all your passwords and stuff these days. Best get to swapping before Google disable that as well. They'd just love to keep you hostage.
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Use firefox
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Understood. For what it's worth, this is another one of their products that's quite small:
https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/
It supports several VPN services out of the box.
Thanks for the link.
In all my travels, in all the cafés, libraries, hotels and co-working spaces I've used around the world, never have I seen anyone pull out their own router.
I'm not dismissing it's potential or usefulness, I just think that for me to avoid adverts and to connect to a few streaming services from weird locations it might be a bit overkill.
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Mullvad VPN
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It’s funny how things work out. I had a Chromebook that couldn’t have Firefox installed. I heard that Chrome would remove ubo, my Chromebook died the following month. So I got a cheap laptop instead. The problem solved itself.
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Have never used Chrome. Firefox is very good. I had 5-6 years when I preferred Opera, but since 2014, I've been using Firefox exclusively.
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Or just use Firefox
Firefox was stubborn enough not to support H.265 till JUST recently and only on windows.. Doesn't work with my 4k security cameras as well as Chrome or Safari based browsers.
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I work for a non-profit and they are way more lenient about what we would like to install as long as the job gets done.
Then you have bad opsec and security holes.
This matters more for some industries than others. But this attitude lets a malicious employee install basically whatever they want in service of "the job" and you won't even know you're being breached until after it's all over.
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Use firefox
And if you don't like Firefox, use one of the Firefox forks. Some of them are very Chrome-like.
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same here in firefox. uhh
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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.
But then you're indirectly giving the enemy (Google) power by increasing their browser market share, which in turn lets them dictate the future of the web.
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I would argue it's a security issue not to have any ad blocking. Many scams online start with popups or fake ads.
So if you get the opportunity to talk to IT that's what I would mention.
(Although they have since taken down their PSA woth no explanation)
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I didn't realize there were firefox forks, are any of them significantly better than firefox?
Zen is worth checking out. It isn't my favorite, but it's trying to do some cool stuff. It might eventually become my favorite once it becomes more stable.
Right now, I'm digging FireDragon. It has two sidebars: one vertical tab bar and one for gadgets. And the vertical tab bar collapses to icons when you aren't hovering over it.
