uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store
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Store is disabled
Wellp, time to get a new job.
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There's the futile hope I suppose that antitrust cases going on against Alphabet might force Google to divest Chrome from its advertising arm, so that there's no pressure to make this whole thing worse. Hah, in my dreams.
On paper they gave the keys to the Linux foundation, but since they still pay most of the developers working on it the only thing it might achieve is taking resources away from Servo.
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Many chromium browser have built-in adblockers and some of them are on-par with uBO. These are not extensions, so Google can't really do anything about them. Not worried in the slightest.
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I can't install anything. I'm lucky I can install uBlock Origin because I worked out later most extensions are disabled too. But I guess it's only matter of time until that disappears.
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At large organizations you're generally not allowed to download much of anything without it passing through IT security and management first. If it's a no, it will probably stay a no.
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.
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Tell your IT.
Officially only Edge is supported, but Chrome is tolerated. It's a full MS environment.
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There's a way to save your already-installed extension, in "Manage Extensions..." Enable dev mode, then Pack Extension.
However the browser will probably just refuse to run it soon.
Vivaldi, for what it's worth, seems to still run uBlock Origin just fine. I am afraid to uninstall it now to test if it'll re-install properly.
My version: 7.1.3570.39 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Might be time to finally move to Firefox though, if Vivaldi doesn't keep Manifest V2 support.
Vivaldi isn't even fully open-source anyway, so it's worth leaving regardless.
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Tell your IT.
Yeah. What company wouldn't allow it?
When I was working for an ad exchange, everyone had adblock installed in their browsers, I found that quite ironic.
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But ublock origin lite is by the same dev.. Not as many features but it conforms to the new rules and is still much better than not having a blocker if you use chrome or edge.
Or just use Firefox
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Well I would seriously consider paying money to a team that keeps it there, if Chromium actually removes the code. I hope others will consider it as well. We need to fight this, even if it means paying some money to a foundation to do so.
Use Firefox and you don't need to worry about that. Everything being Chromium comes with a whole lot of different problems.
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Officially only Edge is supported, but Chrome is tolerated. It's a full MS environment.
Same here. The worst thing is in their justification of disallowing Firefox they listed that it was not an enterprise application. I get that it might be extra effort to support it but don't list something factually untrue as a lame cop out for why you don't want to.
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Or just use Firefox
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But ublock origin lite is by the same dev.. Not as many features but it conforms to the new rules and is still much better than not having a blocker if you use chrome or edge.
Missing critical features:
Filter lists only update with the extension, you cannot update them dynamically
No making your own filters and thus no element picker for blocking annoyances on a webpage (a feature so good apple literally baked it into safari)
No support for external lists (which means if you back up your own filters into a list you cannot easily reimport)
No changing behavior on a per site basis
A number of other features as well that are more strictly power user features but still really handy like dynamic filtering and strict blocking domains.
If you have the option stop using chrome and edge, they are some of the worst options you could choose. Even outside of adblock and manifest v3 chrome is horrendous for data harvesting bullshit and edge isn’t great. If you don’t have the option because of an overzealous it dept or whatever and are forced to use it ubo lite is your best option probably and my heart goes out to you
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Officially only Edge is supported, but Chrome is tolerated. It's a full MS environment.
My condoleances
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Same here. The worst thing is in their justification of disallowing Firefox they listed that it was not an enterprise application. I get that it might be extra effort to support it but don't list something factually untrue as a lame cop out for why you don't want to.
Was told it wouldn't be allowed because you couldn't restrict it using GPO... Until I told them they could absolutely apply those restrictions using GPO and even provided the ADMX templates.
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Google is not an IT company. It’s an advertising company. Surprised Pikachu, it blocks ad blockers.
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Officially only Edge is supported, but Chrome is tolerated. It's a full MS environment.
Click on every single ad and banner, click "I agree" on every pop-up. Make that computer hate it's life!
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Click on every single ad and banner, click "I agree" on every pop-up. Make that computer hate it's life!
uBlock Origin Lite does work, but it's predefined lists only. You can't use the element zapper
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Many chromium browser have built-in adblockers and some of them are on-par with uBO. These are not extensions, so Google can't really do anything about them. Not worried in the slightest.
Name one that is remotely on par with uBlock and is open source.
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Name one that is remotely on par with uBlock and is open source.
Shields.
EDIT: Let's both save our time: "Brave bad, CEO evil, Chromium, cryptoooo, etc... ". I don't care. Mozilla isn't less shitty at all and Firefox is mediocre (source: have been a FF user/advocate from 2002 to 2021).
I'm not interesting in debating.
