uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store
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if ads were normal and unobtrusive. We wouldn't need ad blockers. Instead we get an almost unusable internet where ads take up more and more real estate. I had been running an ad blocker for so many years that when a friend (who doesn't use an ad blocker) showed me a website, the unfiltered experience was horrifying.
I'd be okay with sites showing me unintrusive non targeted ads, but since it's all or nothing I choose nothing.
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And if you don't like Firefox, use one of the Firefox forks. Some of them are very Chrome-like.
Which ones do you mean?
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Going to guess that’s based on your region rather than your browser
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Fair, unfortunately though the chromium browsers have features that I enjoy that are not available in Firefox on mobile (for example, tab groups).
This isn't a direct replacement for tab groups, but there's a Firefox extension called Tree Style Tab that organizes your tabs into a nested tree structure. I use it a lot to emulate tab groups and the way it lays out the tabs makes it much easier to read imo. It might be worth taking a look if tab groups are chromium's "killer feature" for you.
If you don't mind me asking, are there any other must-have features that chromium has that Firefox doesn't?
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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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It never was anything else
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Which ones do you mean?
FireDragon, Zen Browser, and LibreWolf. Zen feels like a streamlined Chrome.
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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.
So, um, which VPN does the bandwagon like?
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if ads were normal and unobtrusive. We wouldn't need ad blockers. Instead we get an almost unusable internet where ads take up more and more real estate. I had been running an ad blocker for so many years that when a friend (who doesn't use an ad blocker) showed me a website, the unfiltered experience was horrifying.
Im old enough to remember the internet before ads, and with ads became a thing and you had to make sure to keep your speakers low/off all the time less some screaming loud ad popped up somewhere to burst your eardrums at 2am.
There were so many obnoxious, visual cancer ads.
Then they became actual digital cancer by being injection points for viruses and malware, and thus adblockers became a necessity.
And they remain a necessity to this day, for the same reason as they were 20+ years ago.
and yet the ad servers want to blame the end user for adblocking.
not their absolute refusal to moderate or police any of the content they deliver.
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I love this movie but honestly it's getting to the point where I can't even watch it without getting upset.
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I love this movie but honestly it's getting to the point where I can't even watch it without getting upset.
What movie is that?
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I'm giving Floorp a try right now. It's actually pretty good.
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My fucking organization refuses to support anything but Chrome. I hate it so much.
Brave user here. Never looked back.
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What movie is that?
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Recently switched to Waterfox from Firefox and loving it. Much faster than the latter and I can use all of my add ons.
Haven't used Chrome in years so they can suck it.
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Probably because of the Adblock Plus mention. It's mired in controversy because of its acceptable ads toggle and requiring ad giants to pay for it. So I can imagine people downvoting comments that put it in a positive light compared to other adblockers.
You may be right, but whether you hate ABP specifically or not should be irrelevant to the question. The question was why other extensions - like Adblock - can have those feature but uBlock Lite can't. What's different?
I'd also like to know, personally. I'd wondered the same thing.
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I swapped to Chrome years ago because YouTube stopped working right on Firefox.
I've started the process of swapping back to Firefox after 10 years with Chrome over this.
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I swapped to Chrome years ago because YouTube stopped working right on Firefox.
I've started the process of swapping back to Firefox after 10 years with Chrome over this.
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I have used firefox from like 2005 to 2024. I am now using brave and I am quite happy with it. I just disabled all this useless cryptobro crap that it comes with. I tried most of the chromium based browsers and this is by far the one that better fits my needs. It has an adblocker that works well, it has a sync option that is not on google servers and supposedly they dont have that insane telemetry that chrome has. And yes an adblocker is tottally needed and will probably be allways needed. I do run a network adblocker with pihole and nextDNS. I haven't seen a single add in years and do not miss them at all. I rather ahve a half broken page than some random website trying to sell me satisfiers and blue pills.
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What movie is that?
Movie turning into a documentary in real time.
