• @iii@mander.xyz
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    Chrome is the adblock-block? You might have outblocked me today, but I’ll firefox you away!

  • zeroshift11
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    17 days ago

    I recently started using Brave Browser as I noticed YouTube ads were starting to seep through randomly. Seems alright no far.

    • @piecat@lemmy.world
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      1416 days ago

      Just wait, there will be “features” that are mandatory on most sites, only supported in chrome.

      • teft
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        516 days ago

        So download a user agent switcher and set it to show you as using chrome. This is what i do with firefox and i haven’t run across a site that thinks i’m using firefox.

      • bitwolf
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        616 days ago

        I usually use a useragent switcher to bypass.

        But the teams website for example opens a Microsoft specific browser api so its annoyingly locked to Edge specifically on mobile.

  • @aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.world
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    2016 days ago

    Stopped using that garbage browser a couple of weeks ago. Hardened Firefox ftw. Just using stock Firefox isn’t enough if you’re concerned about your privacy on the internet btw. If all you’re looking for is an ad free experience tho, then stock Firefox should be enough.

  • @nh5@lemmy.world
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    3116 days ago

    Between Manifest V3 and the Play Integrity API, Google is really trying hard to kill the open internet and android.

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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      114 days ago

      But thankfully Manifest V3 is only relevant to Chromium browsers, and there are other options. The proposed web environment integrity API would be much worse, as they could simply blacklist any browsers they don’t like, and deny them access to the most popular websites.

    • D-Mega
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      115 days ago

      but android is google and google is chrome 😶‍🌫️

  • Kokesh
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    1317 days ago

    It’s totally ok. I’ve phased Chrome out in the beginning of the year already.

      • @TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
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        416 days ago

        I switched to Chrome probably a decade ago, because at the time it was significantly faster. I switched to chromium at some point and ended up back on Firefox when Google’s password manager stopped working on every browser except Chrome. Firefox is noticeably faster these days and doesn’t crash as often.

      • @letsgo@lemm.ee
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        516 days ago

        There was a period some years ago where Firefox and Chrome were leapfrogging each other: Firefox would get slow and crap so I’d switch, then Chrome would get slow and crap and I’d switch back to FF, and so on. I’ve been on Chrome for quite a while it seems, until this development with uBO, well for me the internet is unusable without a shitblocker, so that’s the end of Chrome. Thankfully FF is up to the job.

  • @grue@lemmy.world
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    2617 days ago

    I have always used Firefox on all my devices, except for one: the Chromebook I was forced to buy because of compatibility with my college’s test proctoring spyware.

    On that device, not only did uBlock Origin quit working the other day, but today Chrome even kept disabling uBlock Lite with the error message that “This extension reloaded itself too frequently”. It could be some kind of legitimate bug, but it sure feels a lot like foul play on Google’s part.

  • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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    615 days ago

    Time to switch to uBlock Lite or another ad blocker browser. Firefox fully supports ad blockers like uBlock Origin. LibreWolf removes all the Mozilla nonsense like Pocket, their new advertising crap, sponsored sites, etc. and comes with uBO preinstalled. There’s also an official Lemmy community for it: !librewolf@lemmy.ml

  • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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    1017 days ago

    I’ve been dual welding browsers since chrome came out. The second they started talking about deprecating manifest 2, I test drove Vivaldi and Brave. Now they’re set up as my second.

    I tried to convert over to Libwolf, But it absolutely massacres my passkeys.

    I plan to main Firefox until they do something stupid which I think is inevitable with their recent statements.

    I’m just hoping that by the time The other Firefox shoe drops there will be something else viable on the market. I don’t know how long Brave and Vivaldi can hold out with chromium changing underneath them

    • zewm
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      1617 days ago

      I wouldn’t trust Brave as it has a poor track record for privacy and is often used as a crypto miner behind the scenes.

      • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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        1017 days ago

        That’s a fairly long time ago now and the crypto token crap is off by default. As far as I know they are the only browser with a paid development team that is trying to combat YouTube ads. And they’re blocking technique is unique amongst the options we have. If it comes down to using Brave for YouTube, I have no problem with doing that.

        • darreninthenet
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          216 days ago

          The only thing stopping me moving to Brave is the awful bookmark sync implementation… when I used it for a small period in the past it was keeping some I’d long deleted on other devices etc

          I also would prefer it to implement bookmark separators (like both Vivaldi and FF do) but I can live without those if they sorted out the sync.

          • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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            116 days ago

            Yeah, I don’t use their sync for bookmarks. I just keep the plugins the same with that. I installed the X bookmarks plugin everywhere and just do a manual export/import when I want to. Is keeping my toolbars lined up between all the different browsers.

        • Traister101
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          616 days ago

          Yup. I always get shat on for mentioning that the crypto crap is off by default. I quite like the idea behind it, have the browser send you ads and then allow you to choose what to do with the earnings but in practice it doesn’t work so well sadly

          • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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            616 days ago

            Yeah, sadly, bringing Brave into any browser conversation is like saying, “Please take a dump on my face.” And I get some of the vitriol. Brave would likely sell you down the river for $7 if they thought they could get away with it, but so would two-thirds of the browsers out there. Even Firefox, the last true holdout at the moment, is hungry. I hope they find a rev stream before they do something drastic.

            I like the concept of letting you choose the ads you see and earning some of the compensation. But it needs to happen at the advertiser level. I’d like a world where I pay a little to the browser, a little to the originator, and maybe get a small pool to dedicate to a site or cause I want to patronize.

        • Axum
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          416 days ago

          Vivaldi, run by the old opera team, has their own adblock built into the app itself

          • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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            116 days ago

            And that’s why I keep them in the running. They openly claim that they intend to support V2 for as long as they are able but they admit the possibilities of having to push that code in if chromium made it difficult enough to maintain.

    • bitwolf
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      316 days ago

      Oof I was considering LW but now am worried about the passkeys. Was that from an import or a remove and recreate?

      Been meaning to try Zen but maybe I should test more before trying either

      • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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        116 days ago

        It won’t trigger or accept my Bitwarden passkeys, and on google, if I do the use other device, it pops on my phone for bio auth, but the browser just never accepts the credentials.

        I’d try it if I were you, I do a lot of strange things. just check to make sure they work for you first.

  • SayCyberOnceMore
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    1317 days ago

    the company said it would start turning off Manifest V2 extensions

    …in time for Black Friday & the holiday sales?

  • @intro@programming.dev
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    I stopped using adblockers and simply set the entire operating system to use Mullvad’s DNS over HTTPS/TLS, specifically the adblock.dns.mullvad.net option. It doesn’t have all the other uBlock features, but all ads are blocked in all browsers.

    • @micka190@lemmy.world
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      2017 days ago

      The big problem with DNS-based ad-blocking is that it doesn’t prevent redirects. Sure, you’ll get redirected to a harmless blank page, but then you need to go back to the previous page. You don’t have that issue with uBlock.

      • Daemon Silverstein
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        1417 days ago

        It also doesn’t prevent advertisements carried through the website’s own domain. For example, lots of video platforms send their advertisements through the same domain as the content’s domain, so if you block that domain, you’ll also block the possibility of watching any content there. That’s why you need to have ad-blocking within the browser.

        • @EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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          516 days ago

          Also doesn’t do cosmetic filtering - like, it would remove the ad, but not the HTML box that used to contain it.

    • @CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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      3317 days ago

      Unfortunately I’m stuck with Chrome at work so having something like Ublock Lite available is somewhat helpful. I just hope it still blocks youtube ads because they’re the worst.

      • @Qkall@lemmy.ml
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        717 days ago

        ah you too work for a company that will let you install firefox but no extensions or addons??

        fml

        • @CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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          716 days ago

          We handle a lot of IP so I can’t install anything on the PC that isn’t pre-approved (like MS Teams). I am able to add certain extensions like Ublock but not others like Keepa (Amazon price tracker).

        • @kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee
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          216 days ago

          My company enforces specific add-ons for Firefox so I installed and use LibreWolf which our admins don’t lock down - only Chrome and Firefox. I wanted a browser that I would use separately from my work that didn’t specifically need their add-ons which include traffic sniffing crap. I know that if I want to do any personal browsing and guarantee it’s personal, I should use my own device but I was honestly just annoyed by the additional CPU cycles the security add-ons were using.

      • @moe93@lemmy.ml
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        1316 days ago

        I am running a portable LibreWolf on my work issued, locked-down-with-a-chastity-belt-and-thrown-the-keys-into-the-fires-of-Mount-Doom-in-Mordor laptop with uBlock extension installed.

        Try that and see if it works.

          • @moe93@lemmy.ml
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            916 days ago

            This sort of exaggeration is typically used for comedic effect. Sorry for trying to throw a smile on a random person’s face. You must be very fun to hang around at parties.

          • @kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee
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            1216 days ago

            Did they mention external device access? I only see a mention of portable LibreWolf which I assume is referring to the “can just be ran from a folder dropped anywhere on the filesystem” version of portable, not necessarily that it’s an external device.

      • @AJ1@lemmy.ca
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        416 days ago

        it seems to work on youtube so far, but that could also be due to the previous custom filters I installed months ago when yt ramped up their “no adblocker” campaign. UBO still works in the sense that all of the filters and lists you’ve installed are still there and functioning, you just can’t update the extension. I’m still running UBO alongside UBO lite and it’s working fine for now (knock on wood) until I can afford a new Windows machine.

    • @biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
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      when I swapped my laptops, I already had chrome on the newer ones which I’m still using, but when I heard about this ublock origin saga, I started putting all my passwords in protonpass, and customised my Firefox install to my liking, CSS and everything. All ready to switch now, and I’m gonna be thanking my past self profusely for actually choosing to switch instead of vegetating.

    • @jimmy90@lemmy.world
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      Brave is actually very good and seems to have a great blocker

      ps. their mobile browser has also been great on older phones

        • @jimmy90@lemmy.world
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          115 days ago

          that was before 2008 as far as i can tell, has eich and/or the organisation continued to act homophobicly?

          • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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            315 days ago

            He got caught sending money to a bigoted organization, got in trouble, and then embraced dark money.

            Until he makes it right to the LGBTQ+ community and makes his finances public, only a fool or another bigot would give him the benefit of the doubt.

        • @jimmy90@lemmy.world
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          516 days ago

          ps. Brave has also built-in P2P and TOR features among other features

          actually an interesting browser

          • @Grangle1@lemm.ee
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            916 days ago

            Be careful with the Tor features, they allow you to open some onion sites but don’t supply the extra anonymity/security of the actual Tor browser.

            • @jimmy90@lemmy.world
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              good point, i think this feature just makes it easier to access TOR domain sites without an extra browser rather than being the anonymity tool that TOR browser is

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          not enabled by default, but if you want to use them, yes

          i haven’t seen a single ad or been annoyed by any crypto shite so far

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            I installed Brave earlier this week and that’s mostly true. There’s some built in stuff that will show by default, notably the toolbar buttons and the notification style alert on the new tab page for one of those things mentioned, but you can just close the notification and remove the toolbar buttons and you’re set.

            That said, I think it’s still in the data monetization market like Alphabet with anonymized tokens, though I don’t remember the details.

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              this is disabled by default, i think that is the BAT system that also uses crypto somehow

              i also made a handful of tweaks to tidy up the UI, easily done in the settings